Tel Yitzhak ( he, תֵּל יִצְחָק, ''lit.'' Yitzhak Hill) is a

kibbutz A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...

in central Israel. Located in the

coastal plain A coastal plain is flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast. A fall line commonly marks the border between a coastal plain and a piedmont area. Some of the largest coastal plains are in Alaska and the southeastern United States. The Gulf Coa ...

to the south-east of

Netanya Netanya (also known as Natanya, he, נְתַנְיָה) is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa, between Poleg stream and Wingate I ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Hof HaSharon Regional Council Hof HaSharon Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית חוף השרון, ''Mo'atza Azorit Hof HaSharon'', ''lit.'' Sharon Coast Regional Council), is a regional council in the Central and Tel Aviv districts of Israel. It is located on the co ...

. In it had a population of .

History

The region of Tel Yitzhak, bordering the wetlands of the

Poleg Poleg ( he, נחל פולג, Naḥal Poleg) is a stream in the Sharon plain in Israel that empties into the Mediterranean Sea between Netanya and the Wingate Institute. Geography The stream starts between Tira and Ramat HaKovesh, east of Mish ...

stream, has been inhabited intermittently since the

Middle Paleolithic The Middle Paleolithic (or Middle Palaeolithic) is the second subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. The term Middle Stone Age is used as an equivalent or a synonym for the Middle Paleoli ...

age, with peak periods of settlement during the Middle and

Late Bronze Age The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second pri ...

(17th–13th centuries BCE), the

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

(4th–7th centuries CE) and Late Ottoman periods (19–early 20th centuries CE).
The kibbutz was established in 1938 by General Zionist

immigrants Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and ...

from Galicia as part of the tower and stockade settlement campaign. It was named after Yitzhak Steiger, a leader of HaNoar HaTzioni in Galicia. Haaretz press,Tel Yitzhak

Masua, a center for Holocaust research and commemoration, was established on the kibbutz.

Nature reserve

Southwest of the kibbutz is an 8-

dunam A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount ...

nature reserve established in 1968 to protect flora and fauna native to the

Sharon plain The Sharon plain ( ''HaSharon Arabic: سهل شارون Sahel Sharon'') is the central section of the Israeli coastal plain. The plain lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the west and the Samarian Hills, to the east. It stretches from Nahal ...

. Flora includes

Ceratonia siliqua The carob ( ; ''Ceratonia siliqua'') is a flowering evergreen tree or shrub in the Caesalpinioideae sub-family of the legume family, Fabaceae. It is widely cultivated for its edible fruit pods, and as an ornamental tree in gardens and lands ...

, ''

Calicotome villosa ''Calicotome villosa'', also known as hairy thorny broom and spiny broom, is a small shrubby tree native to the eastern Mediterranean region. Etymology ''Calicotome'' is derived from the Greek ''Kalux'', calyx and ''tomos'', cut ; this refers to ...

'', ''

Thymelaea hirsuta ''Thymelaea hirsuta'', boalaga (Spanish), bufalaga (Catalan and geolectal Spanish), mitnan (Arabic) or shaggy sparrow-wort, is a xerophytic shrub which can grow to 2 metres in height and has a root system reaching depths of up to 3.5m. Some note ...

'', ''

Prasium majus ''Prasium'', common name white hedge-nettle, is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1982. It contains only one known species, ''Prasium majus'', first described for modern science in 1753. It is native to Mad ...

'', ''

Anagyris ''Anagyris'' (Spanish: ''oro de risco'') is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. Species ''Anagyris'' comprises the following species: * '' Anagyris foetida'' L. * '' Anagyris latifolia'' B ...

'', and

Lavandula stoechas ''Lavandula stoechas'', the Spanish lavender or topped lavender (U.S.) or French lavender (U.K.), is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, occurring natively in several Mediterranean countries, including France, Spain, Portugal, ...

Historic images

File:תל יצחק - הקמת מגדל הצופים ביום עלית קיבוץ תל יצחקעל אדמת הקק"ל בסביבות אבן יהודה-JNF025809.jpeg, Tel Yitzhak construction of watchtower 1938 File:תל יצחק - יום העליה-JNF025810.jpeg, Tel Yitzhak construction of wall, July 1938 File:מראה תל-יצחק בשרון-JNF044939.jpeg, Tel Yitzhak 1939 File:Tel Tsur 1944.jpg, Tel Yitzhak 1944 1:20,000 (bottom right quadrant:Tel Yits-haq)

References

{{Authority control Kibbutzim Populated places established in 1938 Nature reserves in Israel Populated places in Central District (Israel) Protected areas of Central District (Israel) 1938 establishments in Mandatory Palestine Polish-Jewish culture in Israel