Givat HaShlosha (, ''lit.'' Hill of the three) is a

kibbutz A kibbutz ( / , ; : kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania Alef, Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economi ...

in central

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. Located about 4 km east of

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, near the Yarkon river, it falls under the jurisdiction of

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. In it had a population of .

Etymology

The kibbutz is named for the three workers from

who were accused of

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during World War I (Palestine was then under the rule of the

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), and were sent to a prison in

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. They were tortured and died in 1916.

History

PikiWiki Israel 11502 The dining room in Kibbutz Givat Hashlosha

The kibbutz was founded on 1 May 1925, by a group from the Zionist pioneering

HeHalutz HeHalutz or HeChalutz (, lit. "The Pioneer") was a Jewish youth movement that trained young people for agricultural settlement in the Land of Israel. It became an umbrella organization of the pioneering Zionist youth movements. History Before W ...

movement originating in the city of Klesów in Poland (now Klesiv, Ukraine). Its original site was at a location west of Petah Tikva, which is now within the city, near the intersection of Arlozorov and Tzahal streets. A regional agricultural school was located on the outskirts of Givat Hashlosha.

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, later prime minister of Israel, was a student there in 1935-1937. Later it was named after Rosa Cohen, Rabin's mother. The site is now an urban farm and teacher training college. In 1953 Givat HaShlosha was moved to its current position; on the land of the newly depopulated

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village of

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. Today, a geriatric institution belonging to

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is located at Givat HaShlosha. One of the largest dining halls in

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operated in the kibbutz, designed by Israeli architect Aryeh Sharon along other buildings in the kibbutz. In the era before the founding of the state of Israel, Givat HaShlosha was one of the kibbutzim where the

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trained, and it had weapons caches for the

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. Subsequently, it was raided by the

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during

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. When

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arrived in Israel, the kibbutz absorbed many young people. By 1950, Kibbutz Givat Hashlosha was one of the largest in the country, with close to 900 members. In 1952, an ideological dispute led to the construction of a brick wall in the center of the dining hall to separate the two groups and finally the establishment of a new kibbutz, Einat near

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Economy

In 1968, Givat Hashlosha had 510 inhabitants."Givat Hashlosha",

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. Its farming is highly intensive, with citrus fruits and other crops, dairy farming and cattle. The kibbutz has a shoe factory and a plant for building materials. The kibbutz operates a secular cemetery where many well-known personalities have been buried, among them

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and

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.Former minister Yossi Sarid laid to rest at Givat Hashlosha
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Notable people

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(1926–2001), general and politician * Uri Lifschitz (1936–2011), painter

References

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