Beit Rimon ( he, בֵּית רִמּוֹן, ''lit.'' House of the Pomegranate) is a kibbutz located in the

Lower Galilee Regional Council The Lower Galilee Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית הגליל התחתון, ''Mo'atza Azorit HaGalil HaTahton'') is a regional council in the Northern District of Israel. Lower Galilee Regional Council encompasses most of the settle ...

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 ...

. It consists of a core

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 ...

and a residential expansion. It is located in the

Lower Galilee The Lower Galilee (; ar, الجليل الأسفل, translit=Al Jalil Al Asfal) is a region within the Northern District of Israel. The Lower Galilee is bordered by the Jezreel Valley to the south; the Upper Galilee to the north, from which it is ...

on a ridge of Mount Tur'an at a height of 400 meters above sea level. As of it had a population of .

Etymology

It is named after the Biblical Rimon (

pomegranate The pomegranate (''Punica granatum'') is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub in the family Lythraceae, subfamily Punicoideae, that grows between tall. The pomegranate was originally described throughout the Mediterranean Basin, Mediterranean re ...

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

) in the lands of the

Tribe of Zebulun According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Zebulun (alternatively rendered as ''Zabulon, Zabulin, Zabulun, Zebulon''; ) was one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Following the completion of the conquest of Canaan by the Israelite tribes in the B ...

(Joshua 19:13), which "is identified with er-Rumane" at today's Arab village of Rumana, 2 km to the west.

History

Beit Rimon was first settled in 1977 as a

Nahal settlement Nahal settlements ( he, היאחזות נח"ל, ''Heahzut Nahal'') were settlements established by Nahal soldiers in Israel and Israeli-occupied territories. Supporting Jewish settlement growth and expansion throughout Israel was once the main f ...

. In 1979, a group of British

immigrants Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, ...

joined the Nahal group and established a kibbutz at the site, affiliated with the

Religious Kibbutz Movement The Religious Kibbutz Movement ( he, הקיבוץ הדתי, ''HaKibbutz HaDati'') is an organizational framework for Orthodox kibbutzim in Israel. Its membership includes 22 communities, 16 of them traditional kibbutzim, and 6 others in the cat ...

. The kibbutz operates one of the largest dairy farms in the country, a chicken coop and a factory for agricultural and gardening tools. It also cultivates olives and field crops.Nefesh B'Nefesh, Beit Rimon
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References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Kibbutzim Religious Kibbutz Movement Populated places established in 1977 Nahal settlements Populated places in Northern District (Israel) 1977 establishments in Israel