Be'erot Yitzhak () is a religious

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

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. Located near

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, it falls under the jurisdiction of

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. In it had a population of . Kibbutz Be'erot Yitzhak was originally located in the

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, near Gaza. In 1952, after the kibbutz was destroyed and abandoned in the

Battle of Be'erot Yitzhak The Battle of Be'erot Yitzhak was a military engagement between the Israel Defense Forces and Egyptian army in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It was fought on July 15, 1948, in the ten-day period between the first and second truces of the war. T ...

, it was re-established in its current location south of Petah Tivka.

Etymology

The name is a reference to the patriarch

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's search for water in this area. It also refers to rabbi Yitzhak Nissenbaum, one of the leaders of the Zionist Federation in Poland and a founder of the Mizrachi movement, who was murdered in the

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History

Ottoman era

During the 18th and 19th centuries, the area was part of the Nahiyeh (sub-district) of

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, which encompassed the area of the present-day city of

Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut ( ''Mōdīʿīn-Makkabbīm-Rēʿūt'') is a city located in central Israel, about southeast of Tel Aviv and west of Jerusalem, and is connected to those two cities via Highway 443. In the population was . The populati ...

in the south to the present-day city of

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in the north, and from the foothills in the east, through the Lod Valley to the outskirts of

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in the west. This area was home to thousands of inhabitants in about 20 villages surrounded by tens of thousands of hectares of prime agricultural land.

British Mandate era

The kibbutz was first established in 1943 near

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on the site of what is today

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 ...

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and Kibbutz

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. The settlers were

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from Czechoslovakia and Germany, members of the

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movement. By 1947 it had a population of 150. During the

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the kibbutz took serious losses and was badly damaged by the

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in the

, which included aerial bombardment. According to a report by the

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, the Egyptians were driven out and suffered hundreds of losses.

State of Israel

In 1949 an attempt was made to re-establish the collective on the remains of Wilhema. The kibbutz moved to its present site in central Israel in 1952.

Notable people

Judith Weinstock Judith (Yehudit) Weinstock (; born 1940) is an Israeli author. Biography Judith Weinstock is the eldest daughter of Chana and Chaim Zissowitz, and has a brother and a sister. Her parents immigrated for Zionist reasons in the mid-nineteen thi ...

(born 1940), author *

Meir Shamir Meir Shamir () is an Israeli businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is currently the chief executive officer and main shareholder of Mivtach Shamir Holdings Ltd., an Israeli holding company. Beyond the realm of business, Shamir has also bee ...

(born 1951), businessman *

Shaul Gutman Shaul Gutman (; born 9 September 1945) is an Israeli academic and former politician. Biography Born in Be'erot Yitzhak during the Mandate era, Gutman grew up in Rehovot and studied at the Technion and Berkeley, before returning to the Technion ...

(born 1945), academic and former politician

References

External links

Official website
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