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Ma'ale HaHamisha () is a
The kibbutz originally supported itself primarily on agriculture and developed both the Ma'ale HaHamisha cauliflower and peach, as well as gaining income from a hotel. In the early 2000s, the main issue in privatization of the kibbutz was what type of financial and social change could take place. Until then, all sources of income, including German reparations and old age payments, went into the kibbutz kitty, which supplied all necessities, communal and individual. The concept of sliding pay scales for different work โ promoted primarily by the younger generation โ had to be reconciled with the contributions of the veteran members.
The kibbutz struggled over the fate of community property. Members' apartments might be individually owned, but over the years, as the older generation remained in smaller units, bigger apartments were built for the younger generation and for a new familial sleeping scheme that had abandoned separate childrenโs houses. Members also had to decide what to do with the hotel and conference center. It took intervention by an outside arbitrator to reconcile the differences. In January 2005 the kibbutz was privatized.
Today the kibbutz economy is based on the Ma'ale HaHamisha Hotel and Sakoya events hall.
File:ืืขืื ืืืืืฉื - ืืงืืช ืืฆืจืืฃ ืืจืืฉืื ืืืื ืืขืืื.-JNF035047.jpeg, Ma'ale HaHamisha July 1938
File:ืืขืื ืืืืืฉื - ืื ืืื ืื ืืืฉืื-JNF026753.jpeg, Ma'ale HaHamisha November 1938
File:ืขืืื ืืืืฆืจืช ืืืขืื ืืืืืฉื-JNF007183.jpeg, Maโale HaHamisha 1938
File:ืืขืื ืืืืืฉื - ืืขืื ืืืืืฉื ืืฉื ื ืืจืืฉืื ื ืืงืืืื-JNF026751.jpeg, Ma'ale HaHamisha July 1939
File:AERIAL VIEW OF KIBBUTZ MAALE HAHAMISHA. ืฆืืืื ืืืืืจ ืฉื ืงืืืืฅ ืืขืื ืืืืืฉื.D17-120.jpg, Ma'ale HaHamisha 1945
File:KIBBUTZ MAALE HAHAMISHA. ืงืืืืฅ ืืขืื ืืืืืฉื.D833-016.jpg, Ma'ale HaHamisha 1945
File:THE VINEYARD OF KIBBUTZ MAALE HAHAMISHA AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF ABU GOSH. ื ืืฃ ืฉื ืืืจืืื ืืงืืืืฅ ืืขืื ืืืืืฉื. ืืจืงืข, ืืืคืจ ืืขืจืื ืืื ืืืฉ.D833-017.jpg, Ma'ale HaHamisha 1945
File:Ma'ale Hahamisha 1948.jpg, Food warehouse at Ma'ale HaHamisha on fire following shelling from Radar Hill, 1948
File:Peperman building.jpg, Peperman building, Ma'ale HaHamisha, after battle with Arab Legion
File:Peperman building 1936.jpg, 1948 damage to the Peperman sanatorium
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 Israel
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. Located in the Judea
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n hills just off the JerusalemโTel Aviv highway, It falls under the jurisdiction
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of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council
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The name of the regional council stems from the fact t ...
. In it had a population of .
History
The kibbutz was founded by members of the Gordonia youth movement on 19 July 1938 as one of 57 tower and stockade settlements founded almost overnight between 1936 and 1939 in order to establish a permanentJew
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ish presence in Palestine
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under the threat of attacks during the Arab revolt
The Arab Revolt ( ), also known as the Great Arab Revolt ( ), was an armed uprising by the Hashemite-led Arabs of the Hejaz against the Ottoman Empire amidst the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I.
On the basis of the McMahonโHussein Co ...
. It was named after five men ambushed and killed by Arab gunmen nearby. Ma'ale HaHamisha took in refugees from Gush Etzion
Gush Etzion (, ' 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 villages that were founded in 1943โ ...
in 1949.
Economy
The kibbutz originally supported itself primarily on agriculture and developed both the Ma'ale HaHamisha cauliflower and peach, as well as gaining income from a hotel. In the early 2000s, the main issue in privatization of the kibbutz was what type of financial and social change could take place. Until then, all sources of income, including German reparations and old age payments, went into the kibbutz kitty, which supplied all necessities, communal and individual. The concept of sliding pay scales for different work โ promoted primarily by the younger generation โ had to be reconciled with the contributions of the veteran members.
The kibbutz struggled over the fate of community property. Members' apartments might be individually owned, but over the years, as the older generation remained in smaller units, bigger apartments were built for the younger generation and for a new familial sleeping scheme that had abandoned separate childrenโs houses. Members also had to decide what to do with the hotel and conference center. It took intervention by an outside arbitrator to reconcile the differences. In January 2005 the kibbutz was privatized.
Today the kibbutz economy is based on the Ma'ale HaHamisha Hotel and Sakoya events hall.
Notable people
* Avigdor ArikhaGallery
References
{{Authority control Kibbutzim Kibbutz Movement Populated places established in 1938 1938 establishments in Mandatory Palestine Privatized kibbutzim Populated places in Jerusalem District