Ga'ash () is a

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 in the

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to the north of

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, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Hof HaSharon Regional Council Hof HaSharon Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Hof HaSharon'', ''lit.'' Sharon Coast Regional Council), is a regional council (Israel), regional council in the Central District (Israel), Central and Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv districts of Isra ...

. In it had a population of .

Etymology

The village was named after the Biblical mountain of Gaash, beside the grave of Joshuah in Ephraim (Joshuah 24:30).

History

Ga'ash is located on lands which used to belong to the depopulated

Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...

village of

Khirbat al-Zababida Khirbat al-Zababida (Arabic: خربة الزبابدة, the Ruin of the People of Kafr Zibad) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on May 15, 1948. It was located south ...

. The kibbutz was established on 5 July 1951 by a group of

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from

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who were members of the Latin America "A Group" of

Hashomer Hatzair Hashomer Hatzair (, , 'The Young Guard') is a Labor Zionism, Labor Zionist, secular Jewish youth movement founded in 1913 in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary. It was also the name of the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party, the ...

. The founders had defended Negba during the

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, and had formed the kibbutz community at Ahli Kahsem near

Bnei Zion Bnei Zion () is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain around four and a half kilometres north of Ra'anana, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Before the 20th c ...

in November 1949.

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* {{Authority control Kibbutzim Kibbutz Movement Populated places established in 1951 Populated places in Central District (Israel) South American-Jewish culture in Israel 1951 establishments in Israel