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Children from Kibbutz Beit Alfa on Mount Gilboa, circa 1935. Beit Alfa (Hebrew: בֵּית אַלְפָא; also Beit Alpha, Bet Alpha and Bet Alfa) is a kibbutz in the Northern District of Israel, founded in 1922 by immigrants from Poland. [2] Located at the base of the Gilboa ridge, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council ...
The Beth Alpha synagogue was uncovered in 1928 by members of the nearby Kibbutz Beit Alfa, who stumbled upon the synagogue's extensive mosaic floors during irrigation construction. [1] Excavations began in 1929 under the auspices of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and were led by Israeli archaeologist, Eleazar Sukenik. [1]
The zodiac mosaic in the 6th century Beit Alfa synagogue. The Beth Alpha Synagogue National Park is located in the kibbutz, not, as many assume, at the adjacent kibbutz with the same name, Beit Alfa. It contains an ancient Byzantine-era synagogue with a mosaic floor depicting the lunar Hebrew months as they correspond to the signs of the zodiac.
A kibbutz spokesperson said: "Nearly one hundred people were murdered on Kibbutz Be'eri, and the community suffered hundreds of heartbreaking incidents on that Black Saturday and over the past months, especially regarding the hostages. However, incidents such as eight murdered babies and a murdered Holocaust survivor named Genia – did not ...
"Kibbutz Aleph" of the movement later became the kibbutz of Beit Alfa). [13] [4] [14] At its formation the gar'in had 80 members, but a year later, the number had been reduced to 65. [15] In the summer of 1922 they moved to Nahalal in the Jezreel Valley where they participated in swamp drying and road paving.
The kibbutz has since added a wider variety of accommodations, ranging from single rooms to multiple-room housing units. In 1996, former immigrants ( olim ) from North America founded a summer camp called Kayitz Bakibbutz , (in Hebrew "Summer on the kibbutz"), based on the typical 'American' sleepaway summer camp experience geared toward youth.
In 1949 a new kibbutz was founded on the site of the village by displaced members of the kibbutz Beit HaArava and young refugees from the Youth Aliyah. [5] Beit HaArava was located along the Jordan River near Jericho, and had been evacuated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, was subsequently destroyed by the invading Jordanian forces.
Dining hall in Kibbutz Merom Golan, ca. 1968–1972 Kibbutz Gan Shmuel on Shavuot, 1959. Along with property and ideology, social lives were also held in common. As an example, most kibbutz dining halls exclusively utilized benches, not as an issue of cost or convenience, but because benches were construed as another way of expressing communal ...