Magdiel () is a
Youth Aliyah
Youth Aliyah (Hebrew: עלית הנוער, ''Aliyat Hano'ar'', German: Jugend-Alijah, Youth Immigration) is a Jewish organization that rescued thousands of Jewish children from the Nazis during the Third Reich. Youth Aliyah arranged for their r ...
boarding school in
Hod Hasharon,
Israel
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.
History
Magdiel was established as a home and school for children who survived the
Holocaust
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.
[ ] Its location,
Magdiel
Magdiel () is one of the four original communities of Jewish farmers who combined in 1964 to form Hod Hasharon, Israel. It was founded in 1924 and according to a 1931 census of Palestine, census conducted in 1931 by the Mandatory Palestine, Britis ...
, was an
agricultural village founded in 1924 by
Jewish immigrants from Russia, Poland and Lithuania, later joined by a group from the Netherlands.
[''Encyclopaedia Judaica'', Keter Publishing House, Jerusalem, 1972, Vol. 8, p. 802, "Hod Ha-Sharon"]
In 1964, the village of Magdiel, along with Ramatayim, Hadar, and Ramat Hadar, merged to become Hod Hasharon.
Other schools at Magdiel include a comprehensive secondary school and a technical vocational boarding school of the
ORT
Ort or ORT may refer to:
Broadcasting
*Channel One Russia (formerly )
*ORT (TV channel), a Greek radio and television station ()
Organisations
*Order of Railroad Telegraphers, an American labor union (founded 1886)
*Organización Revolucionaria ...
educational network.
Notable residents
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Zeev Sternhell
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See also
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Education in Israel
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References
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Buildings and structures in Central District (Israel)
Schools in Israel
Hod HaSharon