Givat Haim () was a kibbutz located around five kilometres south of

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. It split along ideological lines in 1952, creating two new kibbutzim,

Givat Haim (Meuhad) Givat Haim (Meuhad) (, lit. ''Haim Hill (United)'') is a kibbutz near Hadera in Israel. It falls under the jurisdiction Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . History It was formed in 1952 by an ideological split in kibbutz ...

and

Givat Haim (Ihud) Givat Haim (Ihud) (, lit. ''the hill of life haim's Hill(Union)'') is a kibbutz near Hadera in Israel. It is located within the jurisdiction of the Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . History It was formed in 1952 by ...

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History

Founded in 1932 by

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, it was originally called Kibbutz Gimel, but was later renamed in honour of

Haim Arlosoroff Haim Arlosoroff (23 February 1899 – 16 June 1933; also known as Chaim Arlozorov; ) was a Socialist Zionist leader of the Yishuv during the British Mandate for Palestine, prior to the establishment of Israel, and head of the Political D ...

, who was assassinated in 1933. Like

Ein Harod Ein Harod () was a kibbutz in northern Israel near Mount Gilboa. Founded in 1921, it became the center of Mandatory Israel's kibbutz movement, hosting the headquarters of the largest kibbutz organisation, HaKibbutz HaMeuhad. In 1923 part of the ...

, the kibbutz split in 1952 in the wake of ideological differences between supporters of the two main socialist parties,

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and

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. This created two new and separate kibbutzim:

, affiliated with

and belonging to

Ihud HaKvutzot veHaKibbutzim The Kibbutz Movement (, ''HaTnu'a HaKibbutzit'') is the largest settlement movement for kibbutzim in Israel. It was formed in 1999 by a partial merger of the United Kibbutz Movement and Kibbutz Artzi and is made up of approximately 230 kibbutzim. I ...

and

, affiliated with

and belonging to

HaKibbutz HaMeuhad {{refimprove, date=April 2025 HaKibbutz HaMeuhad ({{langx, he, הקיבוץ המאוחד, , The United Kibbutz) was a union of kibbutzim. It had been formed in 1927 by the union of several kibbutz bodies and was associated with Ahdut HaAvoda party. ...

Gallery

File:גבעת חיים בעמק חפר - מראה בניין בית הילדים-JNF006944.jpeg, Givat Haim 1936 File:עמק חפר - גבעת חיים בעמק חפר-JNF036105.jpeg, Givat Haim 1939 File:גבעת חיים - מראה כללי-JNF027215.jpeg, Givat Haim 1947 File:Givat Haim 1948.jpg, Members of the Maccabi Youth Movement training at Givat Haim in 1948

Notable residents

Yitzhak Ben-Aharon Yitzhak Ben-Aharon (; 17 July 1906 – 19 May 2006) was an Israeli left-wing politician. He was a Knesset member from the first to the fifth Knessets and in the seventh and eighth, and a former Transportation Minister of Israel, Minister of ...

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and member of the Knesset for

References

{{Authority control Former kibbutzim Hefer Valley Regional Council Populated places established in 1932 1952 disestablishments Geography of Central District (Israel)