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Shefayim (, ''lit.'' High Hills) is a
In the 
In the early 1970s, the kibbutz established Polycad, a plastics factory. In the early 1980s, it established the Shafit
Kibbutz Shefayim is among the wealthiest kibbutzim and was one of the few that did not require debt assistance from the state and banks during the recession in the 1980s. On the contrary, Shefayim contributed NIS 4 million to help failing kibbutzim. The main income source of the kibbutz is Hutzot Shefayim, a shopping mall, on real-estate previously classified as agricultural land. Other sources of income are a hotel and conference center, and a water park.
Shefayim water park
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Hotel Shefayim
{{Authority control Kibbutzim Kibbutz Movement Populated places established in 1935 Populated places in Central District (Israel) 1935 establishments in Mandatory Palestine Polish-Jewish culture in Israel
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
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located 2.5 miles north of Herzliya
Herzliya ( ; , / ) is an affluent List of Israeli cities, city in the Israeli coastal plain, central coast of Israel, at the northern part of the Tel Aviv District, known for its robust start-up and entrepreneurial culture. In it had a populatio ...
along the Mediterranean
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coast. Shefayim falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council
Hof HaSharon Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Hof HaSharon'', ''lit.'' Sharon Coast Regional Council), is a regional council (Israel), regional council in the Central District (Israel), Central and Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv districts of Isra ...
. In it had a population of .
History
Kibbutz Shefayim was established in 1935 by Jewish immigrants from Poland. The name is taken from theBook of Isaiah
The Book of Isaiah ( ) is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Major Prophets in the Christian Old Testament. It is identified by a superscription as the words of the 8th-century BC prophet Isaiah ben Amo ...
: "I will open rivers in high hills." During the British Mandate for Palestine
The Mandate for Palestine was a League of Nations mandate for British administration of the territories of Palestine and Transjordanwhich had been part of the Ottoman Empire for four centuriesfollowing the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in Wo ...
, Shefayim was a base for clandestine immigration.
In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The civil war becam ...
, it absorbed refugees from the abandoned kibbutz Beit HaArava near the Dead Sea
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.
In the early 1970s, the kibbutz established Polycad, a plastics factory. In the early 1980s, it established the Shafit biotechnology
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plant. In the mid-1990s, it acquired the Zirei Israel plant, which has become a leader in the Israeli cotton-ginning industry.
In 2012 IBM
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acquired New York- and Shefayim-based mobile application developer Worklight Ltd., founded in 2006 by Shahar Kaminitz, formerly of Amdocs
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.
Economy
Kibbutz Shefayim is among the wealthiest kibbutzim and was one of the few that did not require debt assistance from the state and banks during the recession in the 1980s. On the contrary, Shefayim contributed NIS 4 million to help failing kibbutzim. The main income source of the kibbutz is Hutzot Shefayim, a shopping mall, on real-estate previously classified as agricultural land. Other sources of income are a hotel and conference center, and a water park.
Notable people
*Orit Noked
Orit Noked (; born 25 October 1952) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Independence and the Labor Party and as Minister of Agriculture.
Biography
Born in Jerusalem in 1952, Noked studied law at the Hebrew Univer ...
(born 1952), former member of the Knesset
* Rachel Shapira
Rachel Shapira (; born July 25, 1945) is an Israeli songwriter and poet. She rose to prominence after the Six-Day War with her anti-war song "''Mah Avarekh''" ("With What Shall I Bless?"), set to music by Yair Rosenblum, and went on to write some ...
(born 1945), songwriter and poet
* Uri Ben-Ari
Uri Ben-Ari (; 1925–2009) was ''tat aluf'' (brigadier general) of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), diplomat and writer.
(1925-2009) is buried at the kibbutz cemetery
* (1905-1993), Yiddish writer and journalist and social activist in Poland, is also buried at the kibbutz cemetery
References
External links
*Shefayim water park
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Hotel Shefayim{{Authority control Kibbutzim Kibbutz Movement Populated places established in 1935 Populated places in Central District (Israel) 1935 establishments in Mandatory Palestine Polish-Jewish culture in Israel