Nahsholim () 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 ...
and beach resort in northern
Israel
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. Located near
Zikhron Ya'akov
Zikhron Ya'akov () often shortened to just Zikhron, is a local council (Israel), town in northern Israel, south of the city of Haifa, and part of the Haifa District. It is located at the southern end of the Mount Carmel, Carmel mountain range over ...
, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Hof HaCarmel Regional Council
Hof HaCarmel Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Hof ha-Karmel'', ''lit.'' Carmel Coast Regional Council) is a regional council located in the northern Israeli coastal plain. The council serves a large area, stretching from Tirat HaCarmel in the ...
. In it had a population of .
History
The kibbutz was established in June 1948 by a group of idealistic Zionists who settled in the
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
al-Tantura
Tantura (, ''al-Tantura'', lit. ''The Peak''; Hebrew language, Hebrew and Phoenician language, Phoenician: דור, ''Dor'') was a Palestinian Arab fishing village located northwest of Zikhron Ya'akov on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coas ...
a few weeks after the previous residents were
expelled after a
massacre
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by Jewish forces.
The earliest residents were
Palmach
The Palmach (Hebrew: , acronym for , ''Plugot Maḥatz'', "Strike Phalanges/Companies") was the elite combined strike forces and sayeret unit of the Haganah, the paramilitary organization of the Yishuv (Jewish community) during the period of th ...
members, but were soon joined by Holocaust survivors from Poland.
[ In 1949 the residents wrote:
: settled in Tantura and did not have to work much in order to start new life only to use what existed here already... The beginning was the day when our group "Nahsholim” came and settled on the lands of the abandoned village Tantura and in its houses. The village was deserted. The property was abundant, and it was the time of the year to gather the crops. And these crops—listen, I shall not exaggerate if I say that we were somewhat dazed—the soil was fertile, the conditions comfortable, the sea and the beach incomparable, and overall ]here were
Here may refer to:
Music
* ''Here'' (Adrian Belew album), 1994
* ''Here'' (Alicia Keys album), 2016
* ''Here'' (Cal Tjader album), 1979
* ''Here'' (Edward Sharpe album), 2012
* ''Here'' (Idina Menzel album), 2004
* ''Here'' (Merzbow album), ...
limitless possibilities. We saw our dream coming true...[
The spacious former home of the ]mukhtar
A mukhtar (; ) is a village chief in the Levant: "an old institution that goes back to the time of the Ottoman rule". According to Amir S. Cheshin, Bill Hutman and Avi Melamed, the mukhtar "for centuries were the central figures". They "were ...
of Tantura served as the dining room.[ Other houses served as residences or as cowsheds, chicken coops or stables, workshops and sheds.][ Over the next decade, most of the houses of Tantura were destroyed and new buildings constructed on the northern side.][ The residents had wished to establish the kibbutz as a fishing village on ''El Burj'', the site of ancient Dor, but gave up after a long fight with the Israeli Department of Antiquities.][ Today, according to a report in the newspaper ]Haaretz
''Haaretz'' (; originally ''Ḥadshot Haaretz'' – , , ) is an List of newspapers in Israel, Israeli newspaper. It was founded in 1918, making it the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel. The paper is published in Hebrew lan ...
, a car park for the beaches of Nahsholim and neighboring Dor contains a mass grave from the 1948 Tantura massacre
The Tantura massacre took place on the 22–23 May 1948 during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, when Palestinian villagers were massacred by Israel's Haganah, namely the Alexandroni Brigade. The massacre occurred after the surrender of the village ...
.
Economy
A glass bottle factory founded by Baron Rothschild in 1891 is located in Nahsholim. Today it is an archaeological museum with displays of objects found in the excavations at Tel Dor
Tel Dor ( or , meaning "generation", "habitation") or Tell el-Burj, also Khirbet el-Burj in Arabic (lit. Tell, or Ruin, of the Tower), is an archaeological site located on the Israeli coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea next to modern moshav ...
since 1980. In 2015, archaeologists examining remains of a shipwreck discovered in 1976 off Dor Beach, near Zichron Yaakov, announced that it was probably a ship sent by Rothschild with supplies for the bottle factory.Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led Military career ...
’s armade in 1799.
The kibbutz grows bananas, avocado and cotton, and raises fish in ponds. It also operates a plastics factory that manufactures irrigation equipment.
Notable residents
* Ora Golan
References
External links
Resort Website
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Kibbutzim
Kibbutz Movement
Populated places established in 1948
Populated places in Haifa District
1948 establishments in Israel
Turkish-Jewish culture in Israel