Netiv HaLamed-Heh () 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
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
. Located in the
Valley of Elah
The Valley of Elah, Ella Valley ("Valley of the terebinth"; from the ), or Wadi es-Sunt (), is a long, shallow valley in the Shephelah area of Israel. It is best-known from the Hebrew Bible incident where David defeated Goliath ( 1 Samuel 17:2 a ...
, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Mateh Yehuda Regional Council
Mateh Yehuda Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Mateh Yehuda'', ) is a Regional council (Israel), regional council in the Jerusalem District of Israel. In 2024 it was home to 51,125 people.
The name of the regional council stems from the fact t ...
. In it had a population of .
History
Netiv HaLamed-Heh was established on 16 August 1949 by demobilised soldiers on land that had belonged to the village of
Bayt Nattif
Bayt Nattif or Beit Nattif (, and alternatively) was a Palestinian Arab village, located some 20 kilometers (straight line distance) southwest of Jerusalem, midway on the ancient Roman road between Beit Guvrin and Jerusalem, and 21 km n ...
. The soldiers had been members of the 4th Company of the
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 ...
's
Harel Brigade
The 10th "Harel" Brigade (, ''Hativat Harel'') is a reserve infantry brigade of the Israel Defense Forces, today part of the Southern Command. It played a critical role in the 1948 Palestine war. It is one of the former divisions of the Palmach ...
, and the settlement was initially named Peled (an acronym for Pluga Daled, lit. ''Daled Company'',
daled being the 4th letter of the
Hebrew alphabet
The Hebrew alphabet (, ), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is a unicase, unicameral abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably ...
). It was later renamed after the 35
Haganah
Haganah ( , ) was the main Zionist political violence, Zionist paramilitary organization that operated for the Yishuv in the Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate for Palestine. It was founded in 1920 to defend the Yishuv's presence in the reg ...
soldiers killed in a
convoy sent to resupply the
Gush Etzion
Gush Etzion (, ' Etzion Bloc) is a cluster of Israeli settlements located in the Judaean Mountains, directly south of Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the West Bank. The core group includes four Jewish agricultural villages that were founded in 1943 ...
kibbutzim during the
1947–48 Civil War (
Lamed
Lamedh or lamed is the twelfth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew ''lāmeḏ'' , Aramaic ''lāmaḏ'' 𐡋, Syriac ''lāmaḏ'' ܠ, Arabic ''lām'' , and Phoenician ''lāmd'' 𐤋. Its sound value is . It is also related to the Anc ...
-
Heh is 35 in
Hebrew numerals
The system of Hebrew numerals is a quasi-decimal alphabetic numeral system using the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
The system was adapted from that of the Greek numerals sometime between 200 and 78 BCE, the latter being the date of the earlie ...
).
[Netiv Ha-Lamed-He]
Jewish Virtual Library
In 2007, the
Vertigo
Vertigo is a condition in which a person has the sensation that they are moving, or that objects around them are moving, when they are not. Often it feels like a spinning or swaying movement. It may be associated with nausea, vomiting, perspira ...
Dance Company has established the Vertigo Eco-Art Village as an educational center for ecology and arts at Kibbutz Netiv HaLamed-Heh.
Vertigo Eco-Art Village: "About us"
(accessed January 2021)
Notable people
*Yiftah Ron-Tal
Yiftah Ron-Tal (; born 1956) is the director of the Israel Electric Corporation, former head of the Israel Port Authority and former major general in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Biography
Ron-Tal was born on Netiv HaLamed-Heh, a kibbutz in ...
(born 1956), major general of the IDF (retired), head of the Port Authority (2007–2010) and the Israel Electric Corporation (since 2010)
*Ya'akov Tzur
Ya'akov Tzur (; born 4 April 1937) is an Israeli former politician who held several ministerial portfolios in the 1980s and 1990s.
Biography
Born Ya'akov Steinberg in Haifa during the Mandate era, Tzur studied bible and history at the Hebrew U ...
(born 1937), former politician and government minister in the 1980s–1990s
Gallery
File:Nativ Halamed-Heh.jpg, Nativ HaLamed-Heh, 1949
File:Nativ HaLamed-Heh.jpg, Inauguration ceremony, Nativ HaLamed-Heh, August 1949
See also
*Khirbet Qeiyafa
Khirbet Qeiyafa (), also known as Elah Fortress and in Hebrew as Horbat Qayafa (), is the site of an ancient fortress city overlooking the Valley of Elah and dated to the first half of the 10th century BCE. The ruins of the fortress were uncove ...
*Dance in Israel
Dance in Israel incorporates a wide variety of dance styles, from traditional Israeli folk dancing to ballet, modern dance, ballroom dancing and flamenco.
Contemporary dance in Israel has won international acclaim. Israeli choreographers, among t ...
References
External links
Kibbutz website
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Kibbutzim
Kibbutz Movement
Populated places established in 1949
Populated places in Jerusalem District
1949 establishments in Israel
Valley of Elah