Ramat David () 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

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

Jezreel Valley The Jezreel Valley (from the ), or Marj Ibn Amir (), also known as the Valley of Megiddo, is a large fertile plain and inland valley in the Northern District (Israel), Northern District of Israel. It is bordered to the north by the highlands o ...

near Ramat David Airbase, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History

The kibbutz was established in 1926, and was named after

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, who was

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when the

Balfour Declaration The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman regio ...

was made. The German-Jewish architect

Richard Kauffmann Richard Kauffmann (1887–1958) was a German-Jewish architect who migrated to Israel (region), Palestine in 1920. His architecture was influenced by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a proponent of the International Style, and was applied to the local l ...

drew up plans for the design of Ramat David in 1931. The British author

Roald Dahl Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime Flying ace, fighter ace. His books have sold more than 300 million copies ...

landed his RAF

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at the British Mandate airstrip at Ramat David early in 1941. He describes the German Jewish refugee children living there at that time in his autobiography '' Going Solo''. On 22 May 1948 Egyptian planes attacked the airbase, damaging and destroying a number of British Royal Air Force planes.

Notable people

* Ze'ev Herring (1910–1988), politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1969 and 1974 *

Ruth Westheimer Karola Ruth Westheimer (née Siegel; June 4, 1928 – July 12, 2024), better known as Dr. Ruth, was a German and American sex therapist and talk show host. Westheimer was born in Germany to a Jewish family. As the Nazis came to power, her paren ...

(1928–2024), sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former

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 ...

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Haaretz, 6 July 2019 * Zvi Yanai (1935–2013), civil servant and author

Gallery

File:רמת דוד - העדר של הקבוצה - רועים מהנוער הגרמני.-JNF044791.jpeg, Ramat David 1936 File:רמת דוד - מראה חלקי.-JNF045476.jpeg, Ramat David 1936 File:רמת דוד - מראה כללי.-JNF044790.jpeg, Ramat David 1936 File:רמת דוד - חדר האוכל.-JNF045689.jpeg, Ramat David dining hall 1940 File:מחנה צבאי ברמת-דוד-JNF015187.jpeg, Ramat David military camp 1940

References

{{Authority control Kibbutzim Kibbutz Movement Populated places established in 1926 Populated places in Northern District (Israel) 1926 establishments in Mandatory Palestine