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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]
Kibbutz Glil Yam, near Herzliya, petitioned the court regarding privatisation. In 1999, [dubious – discuss] eight members of kibbutz Beit Oren applied to the High Court of Justice to order the registrar of cooperative societies to declassify Beit Oren as a kibbutz and reclassify it as a different kind of cooperative society. The petitioners ...
Troen’s daughter and Katsman were killed in the attack. Neta is missing from Be’eri kibbutz, a community of about 1,000 near Gaza known for its successful printing press and art galleries ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Beit Alfa; Beit Guvrin, Israel; Beit HaArava; ... Kibbutz communal child rearing and collective education;
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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]
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.