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) 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 northern

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. Located in the

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near

Karmiel Karmiel () is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Established in 1964 as a development town, Karmiel is located in the Beit HaKerem Valley which divides upper and lower Galilee. The city is located south of the Acre–Safed road, from Sa ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of

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History

The village was founded in 1982 by a

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members. It takes its name from a verse in the

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(31:19) together with the nearby kibbutz Kishorit, whose name appears the same sentence. In its early years, the core families, immigrants from the former

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, ran a chicken coop, cow shed and kiwi plantation.Israelis try a new kind of kibbutz
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