Ramat David ( he, רָמַת דָּוִד, ''lit.'' David Heights) 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 northern

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. Located in the

Jezreel Valley The Jezreel Valley (from the he, עמק יזרעאל, translit. ''ʿĒmeq Yīzrəʿēʿl''), or Marj Ibn Amir ( ar, مرج ابن عامر), also known as the Valley of Megiddo, is a large fertile plain and inland valley in the Northern Distr ...

near

Ramat David Airbase Ramat David Israeli Air Force Base (, he, בָּסִיס חֵיל-הַאֲוִיר רָמַת דָּוִד ''Basis Kheil HaAvir Ramat David'') is one of three principal airbases of the Israeli Air Force, located southeast of Haifa, close to kibbu ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History

The kibbutz was established in 1926, and was named after

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, who was

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when the

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was made. The German-Jewish architect

Richard Kauffmann Richard Kauffmann (1887–1958) was a German-Jewish architect who migrated to Palestine in 1920. His architecture was influenced by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a proponent of the International Style, and was applied to the local landscape, laying ...

drew up plans for the design of Ramat David in 1931. The British author

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landed his RAF

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at the British Mandate airstrip at Ramat David early in 1941. He describes the German Jewish refugee children living there at that time in his autobiography ''

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''. On 22 May 1948 Egyptian planes attacked the airbase, damaging and destroying a number of

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planes.

Notable people

Ze'ev Herring Ze'ev Herring ( he, זאב הרינג, 1910 – 26 February 1988) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1969 and 1974. Biography Born in Przemyśl in Austria-Hungary (today in Poland), Herring ...

(1910–1988), politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1969 and 1974 *

Ruth Westheimer Karola Ruth Westheimer ( Siegel; born June 4, 1928), better known as Dr. Ruth, is a German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper. Westheimer was born in Germany to a Jewish fami ...

(born Karola Siegel, 1928; known as "Dr. Ruth") German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former

Haganah Haganah ( he, הַהֲגָנָה, lit. ''The Defence'') was the main Zionist paramilitary organization of the Jewish population ("Yishuv") in Mandatory Palestine between 1920 and its disestablishment in 1948, when it became the core of the ...

sniperThe Chutzpah That Made Dr. Ruth the Real Wonder Woman
Haaretz, 6 July 2019 *

Zvi Yanai Zvi Yanai (Hebrew: צבי ינאי ; June 9, 1935 – December 16, 2013) was an Israeli civil servant and author. Biography Sandro Toth (later Zvi Yanai) was born in Pescara, Italy. His father was a baritone singer from Budapest and his mother w ...

(1935–2013), civil servant and author

Gallery

File:רמת דוד - העדר של הקבוצה - רועים מהנוער הגרמני.-JNF044791.jpeg, Ramat David 1936 File:רמת דוד - מראה חלקי.-JNF045476.jpeg, Ramat David 1936 File:רמת דוד - מראה כללי.-JNF044790.jpeg, Ramat David 1936 File:רמת דוד - חדר האוכל.-JNF045689.jpeg, Ramat David dining hall 1940 File:מחנה צבאי ברמת-דוד-JNF015187.jpeg, Ramat David military camp 1940

References

{{Authority control Kibbutzim Kibbutz Movement Populated places established in 1926 Populated places in Northern District (Israel) 1926 establishments in Mandatory Palestine