Foundation stone laying ceremony with Rose Halperin in Alonei Yitzhak

Alonei Yitzhak () is a youth village in northern

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. Located near Binyamina, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Menashe Regional Council The Menashe Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Menasheh'') is a Regional council (Israel), regional council near the city of Hadera, on Israel's north-central Israeli Coastal Plain, coastal plain in the southern Haifa District. It is named after ...

. In it had a population of .

History

The village was established in 1948 by Yehiel Harif to absorb children who had survived

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. It was named after

Yitzhak Gruenbaum Yitzhak Gruenbaum (, Hebrew language, Hebrew and Yiddish: ; 1879–1970) was a Polish and later Israeli politician. He was a leader of the Bloc of National Minorities and one of the top Zionist leaders in Second Polish Republic, interwar Poland. ...

, Jewish-Zionist journalist and activist, one of the leading figures in Polish Jewry. Today the village is a

boarding school A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals. They have existed for many centuries, and now extend acr ...

that teaches 675 children (275 residential, 400 day students) from 7th to 12th grade.

Alonei Yitzhak nature reserve

A 31-acre

nature reserve A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, funga, or features of geologic ...

within which the Village is located was declared in 1969, mainly of old Valonia oak trees ('' Quercus macrolepis''), in close proximity to the youth village. Other flora in the oak forest includes '' Cyclamen persicum'', ''Calicotome villosa'', '' Ephedra'', Sea Squill, and ''Asphodelus microcarpus''.

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Youth villages in Israel Populated places established in 1948 Nature reserves in Israel Protected areas of Haifa District Populated places in Haifa District