Sde Nahum (, ''lit.'' Nahum Field) 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 the
Beit She'an Valley
The Beit She'an Valley ( or ) is a valley in Israel.
The valley lies within the Beit She'an rift, part of the Afro-Syrian Rift (Jordan Rift Valley), which opens westwards to the Harod Valley. It is a middle part of the Jordan Valley. The valle ...
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 around 4 km northwest of
Beit She'an
Beit She'an ( '), also known as Beisan ( '), or Beth-shean, is a town in the Northern District (Israel), Northern District of Israel. The town lies at the Beit She'an Valley about 120 m (394 feet) below sea level.
Beit She'an is believed to ...
, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Valley of Springs Regional Council
Emek HaMa'ayanot Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Emek HaMa'ayanot'', lit. ''Valley of the Springs Regional Council'') is a regional council (Israel), regional council in the Northern District (Israel), Northern District of Israel that encompas ...
. In it had a population of .
History
The nearby
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
Saffuriya had been almost emptied of its 4000 inhabitants in July 1948. By early January, 1949, about 500 villagers had filtered back, but "neighbouring settlements coveted Saffuriya lands". The "Northern Front" ordered their eviction, which was carried out the 7th of January 1949. The Saffuriya land was then distributed to its neighbouring Jewish settlements.
In February 1949, 1,500
Dunam
A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; ; ; ), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area analogous in role (but not equal) to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amo ...
s of Saffuriya land was given to Sde Nahum.
Aliyah
''Aliyah'' (, ; ''ʿălīyyā'', ) is the immigration of Jews from Jewish diaspora, the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel or the Palestine (region), Palestine region, which is today chiefly represented by the Israel ...
1937
File:שדה נחום - ביום העליה.-JNF032957.jpeg, Sde Nahum founders 1937
File:שדה נחום - בעליה לשדה נחום, בן לילה הוקמה חומת הגנה לשדה נחום.-JNF032961.jpeg, Sde Nahum construction of stockade wall 1937
File:שדה נחום - מראה-JNF004510.jpeg, Sde Nahum wall construction 1937
File:מגדל הצופים בשדה-נחום-JNF004508.jpeg, Sde Nahum 1937
File:מגדל הצופים והאוהלים סביבו בשדה-נחום-JNF004509.jpeg, Sde Nahum 1939
File:שדה נחום - מראה-JNF004507.jpeg, Sde Nahum 1939
File:המשדדה בשדה-נחום-JNF004517.jpeg, Sde Nahum 1940
File:Nahum 1947.jpg, 1947 photo of Nahum classroom from Palmach archive
Notable people
*
Arieh Warshel
Arieh Warshel (; born November 20, 1940) is an Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist. He is a pioneer in computational studies on functional properties of biomolecule, biological molecules, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Bioche ...
,
Nobel Prize
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-winning
chemist
A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a graduated scientist trained in the study of chemistry, or an officially enrolled student in the field. Chemists study the composition of ...
(2013) and professor at the
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...
was born in Sde Nahum in 1940
References
External links
Official website
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Kibbutzim
Kibbutz Movement
Populated places established in 1937
Archaeological sites in Israel
Populated places in Northern District (Israel)
1937 establishments in Mandatory Palestine
Austrian-Jewish culture in Israel
German-Jewish culture in Israel
Polish-Jewish culture in Israel