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Ramat Rachel (Hebrew: רמת רחל, lit. 'Rachel's Heights') is a kibbutz located in central Israel.An enclave within Jerusalem's municipal boundaries, near the neighborhoods Arnona and Talpiot, and overlooking Bethlehem and Rachel's Tomb (for which the kibbutz is named), it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.
As the kibbutz is based on socialist principles, the salaries of kibbutz members who work independently in the city are automatically paid into the communal purse. [citation needed] Kibbutz Tzova is the current location of URJ Heller High, the Union for Reform Judaism's study abroad high school in Israel. [citation needed]
Kibbutz Beth-El is a Christian Zionist community in Zichron Ya'akov, Israel. In 2003, its population was 800. [1] [2] Kibbutz Beth-El has its community roots in Stuttgart, Germany. Emma Berger, a Christian who became devout following her recovery from a serious illness, brought a group of followers to Israel in 1963 and purchased land in ...
How a dozen refugees fleeing antisemitism in eastern Europe created a model community that became fundamental to Israel’s identity. What is a kibbutz? A brief history of the communes targeted in ...
The kibbutz was founded by members of the Gordonia youth movement on 19 July 1938 as one of 57 tower and stockade settlements founded almost overnight between 1936 and 1939 in order to establish a permanent Jewish presence in Palestine under the threat of attacks during the Arab revolt. It was named after five men ambushed and killed by Arab ...
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The following is a list of kibbutzim (Hebrew: קיבוצים) in Israel, [1] grouped by affiliation, with their year of foundation in brackets. In 2004, there were 266 kibbutzim with population 116,000 or 2.1% of the Jewish population of Israel. [2]
During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, many who fell in battle to secure the road to Jerusalem were buried at the kibbutz cemetery. A memorial monument was designed for the cemetery by Israeli artist Menahem Shemi, whose son Aharon-Jimmy, a Palmach Harel Brigade company commander, was killed in action at Hartuv and is buried in the cemetery. [15]