Netiv HaLamed-Heh ( he, נְתִיב הַל"ה, ''lit.'' Path of the 35) is a kibbutz in central

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. Located in the

Valley of Elah The Valley of Elah or Ella Valley ("the valley of the terebinth"; from the he, עמק האלה ''Emek HaElah''), called in ar, وادي السنط, Wadi es-Sunt, is a long, shallow valley in Israel and the West Bank best known as the place de ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History

Netiv HaLamed-Heh was established on 16 August 1949 by demobilised soldiers on land that had belonged to the depopulated

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

village of Bayt Nattif. The soldiers had been members of the 4th Company of the Palmach's

Harel Brigade Harel Brigade (, ''Hativat Harel'') is a reserve brigade of the Israel Defense Forces, today part of the Southern Command. It played a critical role in the 1948 Palestine war, also known as "Israel's War of Independence." It is one of the former ...

, and the settlement was initially named Peled (an acronym for Pluga Daled, lit. ''Daled Company'', daled being the 4th letter of the

Hebrew alphabet The Hebrew alphabet ( he, אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, ), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewi ...

). It was later renamed after the 35 Haganah soldiers killed in a convoy sent to resupply the

Gush Etzion Gush Etzion ( he, גּוּשׁ עֶצְיוֹן, ' Etzion Bloc) is a cluster of Israeli settlements located in the Judaean Mountains, directly south of Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the West Bank. The core group includes four Jewish agricultural v ...

kibbutzim during the 1947–48 Civil War (

Lamed Lamedh or Lamed is the twelfth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew Lāmed , Aramaic Lāmadh , Syriac Lāmaḏ ܠ, Arabic , and Phoenician Lāmed . Its sound value is . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Lambda (Λ), Latin ...

- Heh is 35 in Hebrew numerals).Netiv Ha-Lamed-He
Jewish Virtual Library Nativ Halamed-Heh

In 2007, the

Vertigo Vertigo is a condition where a person has the sensation of movement or of surrounding objects moving when they are not. Often it feels like a spinning or swaying movement. This may be associated with nausea, vomiting, sweating, or difficulties w ...

Dance Company has established the Vertigo Eco-Art Village as an educational center for ecology and arts at Kibbutz Netiv HaLamed-Heh.Vertigo Eco-Art Village: "About us"
(accessed January 2021)

Notable people

* Yiftah Ron-Tal (born 1956), major general of the IDF (retired), head of the Port Authority (2007–2010) and the Israel Electric Corporation (since 2010) *

Ya'akov Tzur Ya'akov Tzur ( he, יעקב צור, born Ya'akov Steinberg on 4 April 1937) is a former Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios in the 1980s and 1990s. Biography Born in Haifa during the Mandate era, Tzur studied bible and h ...

(born 1956), former politician and government minister in the 1980s–1990s

References

External links

Kibbutz website
{{Authority control Kibbutzim Kibbutz Movement Populated places established in 1949 Populated places in Jerusalem District 1949 establishments in Israel Valley of Elah

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Notable people

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