Sde Ya'akov (, ''lit.'' Ya'akov Field) is a religious moshav in northern Israel. Located near

Kiryat Tiv'on Kiryat Tiv'on ( he, קִרְיַת טִבְעוֹן, also Qiryat Tiv'on) is a town in the Haifa District of Israel, in the hills between the Zvulun (Zebulon) and Jezreel valleys. Kiryat Tiv'on is situated southeast of Haifa Haifa ( he, � ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History

Sde Ya'akov was established in 1927, largely from pioneers who had settled in

Sheikh Abreik Sheikh Bureik ( ar, الشيخ بريك او الشيخ اِبريق), locally called Sheikh Abreik or Sheikh Ibreik in recent times,Sharon, 2004, p. xxxvii/ref> was a Palestinian Arab village located southeast of Haifa.Negev and Gibson, 2001pp. ...

after its purchase by the

Jewish Agency The Jewish Agency for Israel ( he, הסוכנות היהודית לארץ ישראל, translit=HaSochnut HaYehudit L'Eretz Yisra'el) formerly known as The Jewish Agency for Palestine, is the largest Jewish non-profit organization in the world. ...

. It was the first settlement founded by Hapoel HaMizrachi and was named for

Yitzchak Yaacov Reines Yitzchak Yaacov Reines ( he, יצחק יעקב ריינס, Isaac Jacob Reines), (October 27, 1839 – August 20, 1915) was a Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi and the founder of the Mizrachi Religious Zionist Movement, one of the earliest movements o ...

, founder of the Mizrachi movement. File:מראה שדה יעקב בעמק יזרעאל-JNF022176.jpeg, Sde Ya’akov 1928 File:שדה יעקב - מראה-JNF044094.jpeg, Sde Ya’akov 1935 File:שדה יעקב - מראה כללי.-JNF026982.jpeg, Sde Ya’akov 1945 File:הרפת בשדה-יעקב-JNF015190.jpeg, Sde Ya’akov 1947 Sde Ya'akov 1.JPG, A sign at the entrance to Sde Ya'akov

References

External links

The official website of Sde Yaakov

Sde Yaakov
at the Galilee Development Authority website
Moshav Sde Ya'akov Collection
(in Hebrew) on the Digital collections of

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library The Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library is a central academic library of the University of Haifa, and one of the largest in Israel. It is also one of the most progressive Israeli libraries in terms of service, collection, physical space, and libr ...

, University of Haifa {{Jezreel Valley Regional Council Moshavim Religious Israeli communities Populated places established in 1927 Populated places in Northern District (Israel) 1927 establishments in Mandatory Palestine