Ayanot () is a

youth village A youth village () is a boarding school model first developed in Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s to care for groups of children and teenagers fleeing the Nazis. Henrietta Szold and Recha Freier were the pioneers in this sphere, known as youth ...

in central

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. Located near

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, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Gan Raveh Regional Council Gan Raveh Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Ezorit Gan Raveh'') is a regional council in the Central Coastal Plain region of the Central District of Israel. The council's area of jurisdiction extends to nine settlements: a kibbutz, six moshavim, a ...

. In it had a population of .

Etymology

The village was named after the numerous springs in the area, though other sources claim it is taken from

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; "For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills." The

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wrote in 1949 that the name is derived from the Arabic.

History

The foundation of the village began with the purchase of of land by Ada Maimon as a girl's training farm in 1926. The village was established on 30 March 1930, though no-one lived on the site until Maimon, ten girls and a guard moved in on 12 January 1932; until then they had lived in nearby

. During

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, the village became an agricultural school and took in young

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who had succeeded in immigrating. Today it is home to a

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for 180 pupils. A few years ago, the agricultural school opened a

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farm and one of its horses was a runner-up in the 2008 world championship for miniature horses. In 2010, the village celebrated its 80th anniversary.

Gallery

File:Beit Hanan 1941.jpg, Ayanot 1941 1:20,000 File:Yibna 1945.jpg, Ayanot1945 1:250,000 File:בית הספר החקלאי בעיינות-JNF022259.jpeg, Ayanot 1930 File:משק הפועלות בעינות בחוף יהודה-JNF003046.jpeg, Ayanot 1934 File:משק הפועלות בעינות-JNF000820.jpeg, Ayanot 1945 File:משק הפועלות בעינות-JNF000835.jpeg, Worker's farm 1945 File:Flickr - Government Press Office (GPO) - YOUTH ALIYA YOUNGSTERS STUDYING.jpg, Young people studying at Ayanot, 1948

References

External links

* {{Gan Raveh Regional Council Youth villages in Israel Populated places established in 1930 Jewish villages in Mandatory Palestine Populated places in Central District (Israel) 1930 establishments in Mandatory Palestine