Ein HaEmek () is a

community settlement A community settlement (, ''Yishuv Kehilati'') is a type of town or village in Israel and in the West Bank. In an ordinary town, anyone may buy property, but in a community settlement, the village's residents are organized in a cooperative an ...

in northern

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. Located near Yokneam, it falls under the jurisdiction of Megiddo Regional Council. In it had a population of . The name "Ein HaEmek" indicates its location at the top of the hill, overlooking the valleys around it.

History

The village was established as a

moshav A moshav (, plural ', "settlement, village") is a type of Israeli village or town or Jewish settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 and 1 ...

in 1944 by a group of 30 immigrant families from

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, and was initially named Kedem after the organization which helped the founders make

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. After the

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village of al-Rihaniyya was depopulated in the

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, Ein HaEmek and Ramat HaShofet took over its lands. Ein HaEmek became the seventh community settlement in the Ramot Menashe region and joined the six Jewish communities established before it;

Mishmar HaEmek Mishmar HaEmek () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the western Jezreel Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Megiddo Regional Council. Mishmar HaEmek is one of the few kibbutzim that have not undergone privatization and stil ...

(1926), Yokneam Moshava (1935), HaZorea (1936), Ein HaShofet (1937), Dalia (1939) and Ramat HaShofet (1941). For many years Ein HaEmek was an agricultural moshav, consisting of farms based on pasture, cereal crops and olive trees. Starting in the 1980s, the nature of the moshav began to change due to demographic growth and a trend towards non-agricultural professions.

References

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