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Agricultural Union
The Agricultural Union (, ''HaIhud HaHakla'i'') is a settlement movement (Israel), settlement movement that supports agricultural settlements in Israel, which includes several moshavim and community settlement (Israel), community settlements. It was established in the early 1960s as a result of the merger of the Agricultural Council of Cooperative Villages with the Moshavim Organization of HaOved HaTzioni. The origins of the settlement movement trace back to the immigrants of the fifth Aliyah in the early 1930s. In 1978 a Youth movements and youth organizations in Israel, youth movement by the same name was established, which is one of the twelve youth movements recognized in Israel. The current secretary-general of the settlement movement is Dudu Kochman and the secretary-general of the youth movement is Neta Sisal. Member communities *Avtalion *Batzra *Beit Yanai *Beka'ot *Beitan Aharon *Bnei Zion *Dekel *Ein Tamar *Eshbal *Gan HaShomron *Ganot *Givat Shapira *Hadar Am *Hamra, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ganot
Ganot () is a moshav in the Central District of Israel. Located near Hiriya (now Ariel Sharon Park), it falls under the jurisdiction of Sdot Dan Regional Council. In it had a population of . History During the 18th and 19th centuries, the area of Ganot belonged to the Nahiyeh (sub-district) of Lod that encompassed the area of the present-day city of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut in the south to the present-day city of El'ad in the north, and from the foothills in the east, through the Lod Valley to the outskirts of Jaffa in the west. This area was home to thousands of inhabitants in about 20 villages, who had at their disposal tens of thousands of hectares of prime agricultural land. The village was first established in 1950 by demobilised soldiers, but was later abandoned. It was re-established in 1955 by Rassco (the Rural and Suburban Settlement Company) and took in residents from all over the country. Its name is takenHanna Bitan (1999) ''1948-1998: Fifty Years of 'Hityashvut': A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klahim
Klahim () is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the north-western Negev desert near Netivot, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merhavim Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav was established in 1954 by Jewish immigrants and refugees from Iran, Morocco and Tunisia. It was initially called Shoval Shoval () is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located in the northern Negev desert near the Bedouin city of Rahat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bnei Shimon Regional Council. In it had a population of . Etymology The kibbutz founders wanted t ... Daled and then Shadma, before adopting its current name. References {{Authority control Moshavim Agricultural Union Populated places established in 1954 Populated places in Southern District (Israel) 1954 establishments in Israel Iranian-Jewish culture in Israel Moroccan-Jewish culture in Israel Tunisian-Jewish culture in Israel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kisalon
Ksalon () is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The first transit camp (ma'abara) for new Jewish immigrants was set up in 1950 on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Kasla. New immigrants from Yemen brought to Israel in Operation Magic Carpet were given farmland there, but abandoned the moshav a few years later to join members of the Yemenite community living in Rosh Ha'ayin. Their place was taken by Jewish immigrants from Morocco. The moshav was named for the biblical The Bible is a collection of religious texts that are central to Christianity and Judaism, and esteemed in other Abrahamic religions such as Islam. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) biblical languages ... city of Ksalon (Chesalon) mentioned in , which was probably situated on the tel nearby and preserved in the Palestinian name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kfar HaRif
Kfar HaRif (, lit. ''Village of the Rif'') is a moshav in southern Israel. Located on the border of the Shephelah and the Israeli coastal plain around 2 kilometres northeast of Kiryat Malakhi, it is the largest community under the jurisdiction of Yoav Regional Council. In it had a population of . The HaRif creek, named after the community, is located to the east of the village. Nearby are some wells. History The moshav was founded at the end of 1956 by Jewish refugees and immigrants to Israel from Morocco, and was named after the Rif (medieval rabbi Isaac Alfasi), one of the great codifiers of Jewish law, who lived in Fez, Morocco. The founders were later joined by Jewish immigrants from several countries in Eastern Europe.) Kfar HaRif was founded on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian Arab village of Al-Masmiyya al-Saghira. When it was founded, it joined the sector "HaMa'amad HaBeinoni" (the middle position) – a group of moshavim where the people who settled there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kfar Netter
Kfar Netter () is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain near Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The region of Kfar Netter has been inhabited intermittently since the Middle Paleolithic age, with peak periods of settlement during the Byzantine (4th–7th centuries CE) and Late Ottoman periods (19- early 20th centuries CE). Before the 20th century the area formed part of the Forest of Sharon and was part of the lands of the village of Ghabat Kafr Sur. It was an open woodland dominated by Mount Tabor Oak, which extended from Kfar Yona in the north to Ra'anana in the south. The local Arab inhabitants traditionally used the area for pasture, firewood and intermittent cultivation. The intensification of settlement and agriculture in the coastal plain during the 19th century led to deforestation and subsequent environmental degradation. The moshav was established on 26 June 1939 by graduat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kfar Mordechai
Kfar Mordechai () is a moshav in central Israel. Located about 30 kilometers south of Tel Aviv, between Ashdod, Gedera and Yavne, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gederot Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in 1950 by British Jews, British and South African Jews and by some ex-kibbutz members, on the lands of the depopulated Palestinians, Palestinian village of Bashshit. It was named after Mordechai Eliash (1892-1950), who was born in Ukraine, educated at universities in Berlin and Oxford, immigrated to Palestine in 1919, was a lawyer and the first List of ambassadors of Israel to the United Kingdom, Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom. When the first residents arrived, they discovered that the houses had not yet been built and they were housed in semi-detached huts (tzrifim) consisting of one large room, one kitchen and one toilet located about a kilometer from their allocated farms. After waiting for a year for Rassco (compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kfar Ben Nun
Kfar Bin Nun (, ''lit.'' The village of Bin-Nun) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Ayalon Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gezer Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav was founded in 1952 by the Agricultural Union on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Qubab. It was initially named Mishmar Ayalon Bet as it was located at the road junction to the existing Mishmar Ayalon, which had been established two years before, but was later renamed Kfar Bin Nun after Operation Bin Nun, which was named itself after the second name of Joshua (1:1), who fought here in the Ayalon valley (Joshua 10:12).Bitan, Hanna: 1948-1998: Fifty Years of 'Hityashvut': Atlas of Names of Settlements in Israel, Jerusalem 1999, Carta, p.32, (Hebrew) During two efforts, IDF did not succeed to capture Latrun during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Until the Six-Day War The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilaniya
Ilaniya () is a moshav in northern Israel. Also known as Sejera, after the adjacent Arab village Al-Shajara, Palestine, al-Shajara, it was the first Jewish settlement in the Lower Galilee and played an important role in the Jewish settlement of the Galilee from its early years until the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council, and had a population of in . History Byzantine period An ancient burial cave near Ilaniya displays a red-painted Temple menorah, menorah on one wall, with above it, indistinct letters in Hebrew alphabet, Jewish script that remain unexamined. Modern Jewish settlements The agricultural colony of Sejera, later Ilaniya, was established in 1900-1902 on land purchased by Baron Edmond James de Rothschild which was transferred to the management of the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA/ICA) in 1899. Also in 1899, JCA bought additional land for its planned Moshava, colony. The first settlers were residents of Saf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herev Le'et
Herev Le'et (, lit. ''Sword to Plowshare'') is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain to the south of Hadera and covering 1,750 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav was founded in 1947 by demobilised soldiers from the British and Czechoslovak Army. Its name is taken from the Book of Isaiah The Book of Isaiah ( ) is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Major Prophets in the Christian Old Testament. It is identified by a superscription as the words of the 8th-century BC prophet Isaiah ben Amo ..., 2:4; And He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havatzelet HaSharon
Havatzelet HaSharon () is a moshav in central Israel. Located on the Mediterranean coast in the Sharon plain just north of Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . History and etymology The moshav was founded in 1935 by Jewish immigrants from Poland, and was named after Lillian Freiman, the wife of Aharon (Archibald Jacob, "Archie") Freiman (for whom the adjacent moshav Bitan Aharon is named), a leader of the World Zionist Organization in Canada and an advisor to Yehoshua Hankin. The two were instrumental in raising the funds to purchase Emek Hefer (the Hefer valley) in the 1920s and to make it available for Jewish settlement."Lillian Freiman - Jewish First Lady of the Land." Canadian Jewish News oronto8 September 2010: B36-B38 ''Havatzelet HaSharon'' is a flower mentioned in the Hebrew bible that is translated in the English bible as the Rose of Sharon. ("I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys." –Song of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Har Amasa
Har Amasa (, ''lit.'' Mount Amasa) is a Moshav shitufi in the south of Israel. Located near the Yatir Forest 20 kilometres south of Hebron and 14 km northwest of Arad, it is the only member of the Tamar Regional Council to be located in the highlands outside the Jordan Rift Valley. In it had a population of . It was named after the nearby Mount Amasa (859 m), which was in turn named after Amasa son of Ithra the Israelite (2 Samuel 17:25). History The village was founded as a kibbutz of the United Kibbutz Movement on June 30, 1983. However, gradually changed its character over the next 20 years. In 2003, it was transferred to the authority of the Agricultural Union movement, and it was preparing to expand to include many new residents in a less formal framework, while still preserving its social fabric. In 2006, Ynet reported that five families in the kibbutz were undergoing a religious conversion through Chabad. According to certain members of the kibbutz, the reason ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |