Tirat Zvi

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Juv Barn Owl listening and focussing - Tirat Zvi

Yishai and Malkah get away from the city for a visit to Kibbutz Tirat Zvi in Israel's beautiful Jordan Valley. Tirat Zvi is famous for its dates and kosher meat available all over the world (you might have their cold cuts in your grocery store). It has a fascinating history and its first years involved intense struggle for survival. Now it is a flourishing and fruitful community with many productive and varied businesses. Read about it at their website and get ready to be tempted to visit as soon as possible! www.tiratzvi.org.il A great video for parshat Eikev or any time we are learning about Israel's Seven Species. Please click the

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Beit She'an
Beit She'an (help·info) (Hebrew: בֵּית שְׁאָן‎‎ Beth Šəān; Arabic: بيسان‎, Beesān (help·info), Beisan or Bisan) is a city in the North District of Israel which has played an important role historically due to its geographical location at the junction of the Jordan River Valley and Jezreel Valley. It has also played an important role in modern times, acting as the regional center for the numerous villages in the Beit She'an Valley Regional Council.
Beit She'an's location has often been strategically significant, as it sits at the junction of the Jordan River Valley and the Jezreel Valley, essentially controlling access from the interior to the coast, as well as from Jerusalem to the Galilee.
In 1933, archaeologist G.M. FitzGerald, under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, carried out a “deep cut” on Tell el-Hosn, the large mound of Beth Shean in order to determine the earliest occupation of the site. His results suggest that settlement began in the Late Neolithic or Early Chalcolithic periods (sixth to fifth millennia BCE. Occupation continued intermittently up to the late Early Bronze Age I (3200-3000), according to pottery finds, and then resumes in the Early Bronze Age III. A large cemetery on the northern side of the mound was in use from the Bronze Age to Byzantine times.Canaanite graves dating from 2000-1600 BCE were discovered in 1926.

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Beit She'an Valley
Valley of Springs Regional Council (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית עמק המעיינות‎, Mo'atza Azorit Emeq Hamaayanot), known until 2008 as the Beit She'an Valley Regional Council (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית בקעת בית שאן‎, Mo'atza Azorit Bik'at Beit She'an) is a regional council in northern Israel that encompasses most of the settlements in the Beit She'an Valley. The territory of the regional council is bounded by the Jezreel Valley in the west, in the north by the Lower Galilee, to the east by the Jordan River, and the south by the Jordan Valley and Samarian hills. About 9700 people live in the sixteen kibbutzim, and six moshavim located in its municipal territory. The city of Beit She'an lies in the centre of the territory, but is an independent municipality.
The regional council's offices are located on Road 7079 just east of Beit She'an.
Coordinates: 32°29′39.25″N 35°31′11.77″E / 32.4942361°N 35.5199361°E / 32.4942361; 35.5199361

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Beit Yosef, Israel
Beit Yosef (Hebrew: בֵּית יוֹסֵף‎‎) is a moshav in the northern Israel's Beit She'an Valley. It belongs to the Valley of Springs Regional Council, and is located about 8 km north of Beit She'an, adjacent to Yardena.
Beit Yosef was founded in 1937 as a Tower and stockade settlements erected during the 1936-1939 Arab riots. In 1947 it had a population of over 200. It was abandoned during the Israeli War of Independence after it was severely attacked by the Jordanian Arab Legion and Iraqi Army.
The moshav was founded anew in 1951 by immigrants to Israel from Kurdistan and Iraq. It is named for Yosef Aharonovitch, who was an influential figure in the Labor Party, and a journalist.
Coordinates: 32°33′30.95″N 35°33′6.11″E / 32.5585972°N 35.5516972°E / 32.5585972; 35.5516972

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Ein HaNatziv
Ein HaNatziv (Hebrew: עֵין הַנְּצִי"ב‎‎, lit. Spring of the Natziv) is a kibbutz in the Bet She'an Valley in Israel. Located about three kilometers south of the ancient city of Beit She'an, it is 130 meters below sea level. The kibbutz, a member of the Religious Kibbutz Movement, has a population of 700. It falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council.
The name derives from the initials of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (the "Natziv of Volozhin" 1816 – 1893) who was one of the greatest rabbis of Russia at the end of the 19th century. The kibbutz was set up on 17 January 1946 at a place previously known as "el Wakwaka", by a group of young people of the Bnei Akiva Movement from Germany.
The economy of the village today is based on a herd of about a thousand cattle, extensive orchards of date palms and olive trees, cereal crops and a plastics factory – Palziv which exports all over the world. Within the kibbutz there are several educational establishments including the Midreshet Kibbutz HaDati, the Religious Kibbutz Movement's religious seminary for young women and an ulpan (intensive study course) for French speakers wishing to convert to Judaism.

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Gesher, Israel
Gesher (Hebrew: גֶּשֶׁר‎‎, lit. Bridge) is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northeastern Israel. Founded in 1939 by immigrants from Germany, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. It is situated 10 km south of kibbutz Deganya Aleph and 15 km south of Tiberias. The population is approximately 500 inhabitants. It is named after the neighboring bridge (hebr: Gesher) Naharayim, over the Jordan river.
The kibbutz was founded in 1939 on lands bought with the help of Edmond de Rothschild, by a group of Jews born in Palestine who were members of the youth movement HaNo'ar HaOved and a group of young Jews from Germany. They were later joined by Jewish immigrants from Poland, Germany, Austria and additional Palestinian Jews. The kibbutz grew up near the Naharayim bridge as a Tower and stockade settlement.
In April–May 1948, under attack by Iraqi forces and the Arab Legion, 50 children of the kibbutz were evacuated to a 19th-century French monastery adjacent to Rambam hospital in the Bat Galim neighborhood of Haifa, where they lived for 22 months.

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Hamadia
Hamadia (Hebrew: חֲמַדְיָה‎‎) is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley, just north of Beit She'an in northern Israel. It belongs to the Valley of Springs Regional Council.
The kibbutz was first founded in 1939 as part of the Tower and stockade movement, but it was abandoned. It was founded again in 1942 by a group, named "Hermonim", of native-born Israelis who were part of a youth group.
It is named for the abandoned Arab village, located just north of the kibbutz, which was also called Hamadia. This Arab village, in turn, was named after the sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II.
The location is situated on a terrace of ancient Lake Beisan, 200 metres below sea level.Tell Hamadia is a single layer archaeological site of about 100 m² (0.010 ha), first reported and excavated at Hamadia by N. Tzori in 1958 then again by Jacob Kaplan in 1964.Ovens, pits and fireplaces were found with Yarmukian pottery and an assmeblage of many axes, picks, scrapers, "Saw" elements and sickles. Large saw elements indicated possible earlier neolithic occupation which was suggested to date at least to the early chalcolithic (MOM period 7). A flint sickle workshop was located close to the site with over 300 sickle blades found. Tell Hamadia is 10 km (6.2 mi) south of Munhata and is suggested to date between ca. 5800 and 5400 BC. Detailed reports have yet to be published.

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Israel
Coordinates: 31°N 35°E / 31°N 35°E / 31; 35
Israel, officially the State of Israel ( /ˈɪzriːəl/ or /ˈɪzreɪəl/; Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל‎, Medīnat Yisrā'el, IPA: [me̞diˈnät jisʁäˈʔe̞l] ( listen); Arabic: دَوْلَة إِسْرَائِيل‎, Dawlat Isrāʼīl, IPA: [dawlat ʔisraːˈʔiːl]), is a parliamentary republic in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and the Gaza Strip on the southwest, and the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea to the south, and it contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel is defined as a Jewish and Democratic State in its Basic Laws and is the world's only Jewish-majority state.
Following the adoption of a resolution by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 29 November 1947 recommending the adoption and implementation of the United Nations plan to partition Palestine, on 14 May 1948 David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization and president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel, a state independent from the British Mandate for Palestine. Neighboring Arab states invaded the next day in support of the Palestinian Arabs. Israel has since fought several wars with neighboring Arab states, in the course of which it has occupied the West Bank, Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. Portions of these territories, including east Jerusalem, have been annexed by Israel, but the border with the neighboring West Bank has not yet been permanently defined.^{[neutrality is disputed]} Israel has signed peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, but efforts to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict have so far not resulted in peace.

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Jordan
Jordan ( /ˈdʒɔr.dən/;Arabic: اَلأُرْدُنّ, Al-'Urdunn), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (Arabic: اَلمَمْلَكَة اَلأُرْدُنِيَّة اَلهَاشِمِيَّة), Al-Mamlakah Al-Urdaniyyah Al-Hashimiyyah) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing control of the Dead Sea with the latter. Jordan's only port is at its south-western tip, at the Gulf of Aqaba, which is shared with Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. Over half of Jordan is covered by the Arabian Desert. However, the western part of Jordan is arable land and forests. Jordan is part of the Fertile Crescent. The capital city is Amman. According to the CIA World Factbook, Jordan has the second highest life expectancy in the Middle East, after Israel. The average life expectancy is one position behind the United Kingdom, although the age remains exactly the same (80.05 years).
The precursor to modern Jordan was founded in 1921 as the Hashemite Emirate, and it was recognized by the League of Nations as a state under the British mandate in 1922 known as The Emirate of Transjordan. In 1946, Jordan became an independent sovereign state officially known as the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan. After capturing the West Bank area of Cisjordan during the 1948–49 war with Israel, Abdullah I took the title King of Jordan and Palestine, and he officially changed the country's name to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in April 1949.

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Jordan River
The Jordan River (American English) or River Jordan (British English) (Hebrew: נהר הירדן Nehar haYarden, Arabic: نهر الأردن‎ Nahr al-Urdun) is a 251 kilometres (156 mi) long river in West Asia flowing to the Dead Sea. Currently, the river serves as the eastern border of the State of Israel and of the disputed Palestinian Territories. In Christian tradition, Jesus was baptised in it by John the Baptist. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan takes its name from this river.
The river drops rapidly in a 75 kilometre run to swampy Lake Hula, which is slightly above sea level. Exiting the lake, it drops much more in 25 kilometres to the Sea of Galilee. The last section has less gradient, and the river meanders before entering the Dead Sea, about 422 metres below sea level, which has no outlet. Two major tributaries enter from the east during this last section: the Yarmouk River and Jabbok River.
Its section north of the Sea of Galilee (Hebrew: כינרת kinneret, Arabic: Bohayrat Tabaraya, meaning Lake of Tiberias) is within the boundaries of Israel, and forms the western boundary of the Golan Heights. South of the lake, it forms the border between the Kingdom of Jordan (to the east) and Israel and the West Bank (to the west).

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Kfar Ruppin
Kfar Ruppin (Hebrew: כְּפַר רוּפִּין‎‎, lit. Ruppin Village) is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley about 5 km (3.1 mi) southeast of Beit She'an in northern Israel. A member of the Kibbutz Movement, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council.
The kibbutz was founded in 1938 as part of the tower and stockade movement by a group, named "Massad", of immigrants to Mandate Palestine from Germany, Bohemia and Austria. It was named in honour of Arthur Ruppin, who helped to develop Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel.
The kibbutz is home to 450 residents as of 2006. It covers an area larger than 4,000 dunam.
Aside from agriculture and fish farming, the kibbutz has a factory that produces plastic, though it is managed by an external company.
Some of the attractions of Kfar Ruppin and surrounding area include the Kfar Ruppin Gardens, 50 acres (200,000 m²) of splendid public gardens located in the kibbutz. The area has also been touted as the best for birdwatching in northern Israel because it is on one of the most important bird migration flyways between Europe and Africa. A bird ringing station is also located there.

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Ma'ale Gilboa
Ma'ale Gilboa (Hebrew: מַעֲלֵה גִּלְבּוֹעַ‎‎, lit. Gilboa Ascent) is a religious kibbutz located on the summit of Mount Gilboa, on the northeast end of the ridge of the Samarian hills in Israel. Located about 5 km west of Beit She'an, it falls under the jurisdiction of Beit She'an Valley Regional Council
The kibbutz was founded in 1962 as a Nahal settlement, and in 1967 it was settled by members of the Religious Kibbutz Movement. Ma'ale Gilboa is located just north of another religious kibbutz, Meirav. As they are both religious kibbutzim, it was decided that, although they are located in the Gilboa mountains (and would naturally fall under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council) it would be better to include them in Beit She'an Valley Regional Council, where there is a group of religious kibbutzim, including Ein HaNatziv, Sde Eliyahu, Shluhot and Tirat Zvi.
In 1997, after economic and social hardships, the kibbutz faced a crisis and was almost dissolved. Today the economy of the kibbutz is thriving; the kibbutz has managed to repay its debts and has recorded a profit.^{[citation needed]} As with most kibbutzim in Israel today, Ma'ale Gilboa is in the process of privatization. Some aspects of the socialist kibbutz structure are disappearing, and individual services for members of the kibbutz are translated into their economic value. As a result, the kibbutz is not only enjoying economic prosperity but is growing demographically as well. In 2007-2008 major construction is under way to build more housing units for families interested in joining the community.

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Malkishua
Malkishua (Hebrew: מלכישוע‎) is a drug rehabilitation centre in the form of a village in north-eastern Israel. Located on Mount Malkishua in the Gilboa, it falls within the boundaries of Valley of Springs Regional Council. It is named after Malkishua, the son of King Saul, who fell here in the Mount of Gilboa. (1 Samuel 31:2)
The centre was established by the National Authority for the War on Drugs and the regional council in 1990. In 1995 a youth treatment facility was added, and in 2002, Kedem, a centre for religious youths, was founded. The centre is today run by "Amutat Neve Malkishua" under the authority of the Ministry of Welfare & Social Services.
Prior to the establishment of the centre, there had been a kibbutz, Meirav, on the mount. However, the kibbutz moved to its present location on Mount Avinadav in 1987.
Coordinates: 32°26′20″N 35°24′48.2″E / 32.43889°N 35.413389°E / 32.43889; 35.413389

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Maoz Haim
Maoz Haim (Hebrew: מָעוֹז חַיִּים‎‎, lit. Haim's Fortress) is a kibbutz in Israel. Established in 1937 by immigrants from Poland and Germany, it is located off the Jordan River in the Beit She'an valley and falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. It is named after Haim Shturman, a member of the Hagana, who was killed there in 1938.
There are currently some hundreds inhabitants living in the kibbutz. Aside from agriculture, the kibbutz also has a plastics factory, "Poliraz".
South of the kibbutz is a small (11 dunam) nature reserve of Balanites aegyptiaca trees, called the Hurshat Zakum (Maoz Haim) reserve, declared in 1968. (Zakum being the Hebrew name of the tree.) This is probably the northern-most occurrence of these trees in the world.

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Meirav
Meirav (Hebrew: מֵירַב‎‎) or Merav is a religious kibbutz located on the downward slopes of Mount Gilboa in Israel. Located about ten kilometres southwest of Beit She'an and less than 500 metres from the Green Line, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית עמק המעיינות‎‎‎, Mo'atza Azorit Emeq Hamaayanot), known until 2008 as the Beit She'an Valley Regional Council.
The kibbutz was founded initially as a Nahal settlement on Mount Malkishua in 1982, and is the newest religious kibbutz in the country. In 1987 it moved to its current location on Mount Avinadav.
Meirav is located just south of another religious kibbutz, Ma'ale Gilboa. As they are both religious kibbutzim, it was decided that although they are located in the Gilboa mountains (and would naturally fall under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council), it would be better to include them in Beit She'an Valley Regional Council, where there is a group of religious kibbutzim, including Ein HaNatziv, Sde Eliyahu, Shluhot and Tirat Zvi.

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Menahemia
Menahemia (Hebrew: מְנַחֶמְיָה‎‎) is a village in the Jordan Valley in north-eastern Israel. Located near Highway 90 between Beit She'an and Tzemah Junction around 5 km south of Tzemah, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. With an area of 6,000 dunams, the village had a population of 1,000 in 2007.
The village was established on December 23-26,1901 as a moshava under the name Milhamiaby the five first families on land purchased in southern Jordan Valley , and was the first Jewish settlement of its time.^{[dubious – discuss]} It was renamed Menahemia in 1921 after the father of High Commissioner of Mandate Palestine Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel.
It had its own local council from 1951 onwards, but on 1 January 2006 jurisdiction over the village was transferred to Beit She'an Valley Regional Council.
Menahemiyyah established homes - regional pharmacies before the First World War. Established a quarry, where they quarried raw materials for the "Nesher" factory near Haifa, the quarry also provided work for the early stage kibbutzim in the Jordan Valley. A gypsum manufacturing plant was also established, and provided work for residents Menaehemiah. There also existed a museum for the Medical History of the region, and the history of Menahemiah and Naharayim.

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Mesilot
Mesilot (Hebrew: מְסִלּוֹת, מסילות‎‎, lit. Tracks) is a kibbutz in Beit She'an Valley near the city of Beit She'an in Israel. It falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. location : under mount Gilboa
The community was initially formed as an urban kibbutz in Givat Michael near Ness Ziona by immigrants from Poland (who were members of the "BaMesilah" group from which the kibbutz takes its name) and Bulgaria (members of the "Bulgaria - Tel Hai group"), with both groups belonging to the Hashomer Hatzair movement.
The kibbutz itself was established on 22 December 1938 as a tower and stockade settlement. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the kibbutz was bombed by an Iraqi aeroplane. One member of the kibbutz was killed in the bombing, and some other members were injured. On 16 April 1957 two guards of the kibbutz were killed by Palestinian terrorists who came from the West Bank, then part of Jordan
Among the illustrious sons of the settlement are the sculptor Nahum Tevet (1946) and the ballet dancer and choreographer Zvi Gotheiner.

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Neve Eitan
Neve Eitan (Hebrew: נְוֵה אֵיתָן‎‎, lit. Strong residence) is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. Located about 1 km east of Beit She'an and 1 km west of Maoz Haim, it is under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council.
The kibbutz was established on 25 November 1938 by Polish members of the "Akiva" movement as part of the tower and stockade campaign. Native Israelis joined the settlement in 1952. The name "Neve Eitan" is based on the original Hebrew text of a verse in Jeremiah (Jeremiah, 49:19)
The kibbutz is home to the "Ge'on HaYarden" (lit. Pride of the Jordan) high school, which has more than 500 pupils. A failed attempt to build an external addition to the kibbutz area has brought a big group of families to the place, most of which are home-schoolers. With over 20 eco-unschooling families, Neve-Eitan has the largest community of home-schoolers in Israel.

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Neve Ur
Neve Ur (Hebrew: נְוֵה אוּר‎‎, lit. Fire Oasis) is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. It is named after the Biblical town of Ur Kasdim in Mesopotamia, where Abraham lived, before he left for the land of Israel (Kanaan) (Genesis 11:31). Located on the Jordan River south of the Sea of Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. It has about 350 members, of which around 165 are children.
Neve Ur is located in the northern Jordan Valley in the Beit She'an region approximately 10 km north of the town of Beit She'an, and 15 km south of the Sea of Galilee.
Highway 90 runs through the Beit She'an Valley past Neve Ur. The kibbutz and its building lay to the east of the road. On the west side of the highway, and some 500 meters above, overlooking its hillside citrus groves, is the most complete Crusader fortress in Israel, Belvoir Fortress. The Hebrew name of the fortress is Kokhav HaYarden (lit. Star of the Jordan), for the nearby ancient Jewish village of Kokhav (star).

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Nir David
Nir David (Hebrew: נִיר דָּוִד‎‎, lit. David's Meadow) is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. Founded on 10 December 1936 as the first of the tower and stockade settlements under the name Tel Amal, it is under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council
The community of Nir David was formed in the city of Ramat Gan in 1932. Its first members were founders of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement in Israel. In 1933 the group united with kibbutz Massad from Poland. In 1934 the community sent a group to the Beit She'an Valley to cultivate the land that the Jewish National Fund had purchased for future settlements in the region. The kibbutz members began farming around Tel Shuk, where the kibbutz would later be established. When Arab riots began on the night of 20 April 1936, the kibbutz's first wheat crop was burned and its plants and seedlings uprooted.
The members of the community were determined to return to their land, despite the dangers involved. Faced with Arab terror and British opposition, they devised a plan for a fortified settlement that could resist attack from its first night of existence. On 10 December 1936 Tel Amal was established as the first tower and stockade settlement (and the first kibbutz) in the Beit She'an Valley, and the second in all of Mandate Palestine. During the next three years of troubles from the 1936-1939 Arab riots, some 52 such settlement were built overnight.

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Reshafim
Reshafim (Hebrew: רְשָׁפִים‎‎, lit. Sparks) is a kibbutz in northeastern Israel. Located two kilometres to the south of the town of Beit She'an in the Beit She'an Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. The kibbutz has about 270 members, 50 non-member residents, and 100 children.
The community was established by Hashomer Hatzair members movement in 1947 at Kiryat Haim. In 1948 land was allocated from the state owned Ashrafieh area south of Beit She'an whose Arab inhabitants were expulsed the country during 1948 Arab-Israeli War. For the first few months at the site, the members of Kibbutz Reshafim lived temporarily in a camp jointly with the members of Kibbutz Shluhot which belonged to the Orthodox Religious Kibbutz Movement. The camp was later broken up when both kibbutzim were established adjacent to each other.
The founder members were mostly Holocaust survivors from Romania and Poland. They were joined by a small group of Israeli-born Sabras. In the 1950s a group of Argentine Jews and another group consisting mostly of Sephardic Jews joined the kibbutz. In the 1960s members were recruited from the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement and the Nahal from among the descendants of kibbutz members. With the decline of Western socialism and growing economic difficulties in the 1980s and 1990s population numbers stagnated.

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Revaya
Revaya (Hebrew: רְוָיָה‎‎) is a moshav in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. It belongs to the Valley of Springs Regional Council. It is located about 6 km south of Beit She'an, near Sde Trumot, west of Israel Highway 90.
The moshav was founded in 1952 by the Hapoel Hamizrachi organization. It was settled by immigrants to Israel from Iraq and Morocco. It also accepted some Ethiopian Jews who immigrated to Israel in the 1990s.
Originally the moshav was named "P'rona B", corresponding to the adjacent "P'rona" (Tel Rehov). The name was changed to Revaya, corresponding to the nearby Revaya spring. (The Hebrew word "revaya" means "overflowing" or "saturated".)
As of 2000, Revaya encompassed about 2,000 dunam of area, and had a population of 200 people.
The moshav is one of four settlements in a group: Revaya, Sde Trumot, Tel Teomim, and Rehov. These four settlements were established near one another and form a group together.
Coordinates: 32°26′56.39″N 35°28′23.88″E / 32.4489972°N 35.4733°E / 32.4489972; 35.4733

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Sde Eliyahu
Sde Eliyahu (Hebrew: שְׂדֵה אֵלִיָּהוּ‎‎, lit. Eliyahu Field) is a religious kibbutz in northern Israel. Located 5 km south of Beit She'an, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council.
Sde Eliyahu was founded on 8 May 1939 by German immigrants as a tower and stockade settlement. It was named after Rabbi Eliyahu Gutmacher, who was one of the first leaders of Religious Zionism, and together with Ein HaNatziv, Shluhot and Tirat Zvi forms a group of religious kibbutzim in the area.
Immigrants from many other countries have since joined Sde Eliyahu. As of 2007, it is home to about 800 members and 150 families.
The kibbutz produces dates, grapes, pomegranates, spices and field crops, as well as dairy cattle and poultry. The kibbutz uses organic farming methods and non-pesticide management.
The "Shaked" regional religious school is located in the kibbutz. It serves students from the surrounding area. The kibbutz recently established a beit midrash for graduates of the Israel Defense Forces who wish to combine Jewish studies with farm work.

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Sde Nahum
Sde Nahum (Hebrew: שְׂדֵה נַחוּם‎‎, lit. Nahum Field) is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. Located around 4 km northwest of Beit She'an, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. As of 2005, the kibbutz had a population of about 50 families and 550 people.
The kibbutz was founded on 5 January 1937 by members of the Sadeh group from the Mikveh Israel agricultural school, as well as immigrants from Austria, Germany and Poland. It was the third kibbutz established as part of the tower and stockade settlement movement. Initially called Kibbutz HaSadeh, it was later renamed in honour of Nahum Sokolov, a Zionist writer.
Ruins of a 5th–6th century Byzantine church have been found in the kibbutz.
Similar to most kibbutzim, the main economic activity is agriculture-based, although it also has a factory for manufacture of plastic materials and an elderly care facility.
Coordinates: 32°31′31.08″N 35°28′54.47″E / 32.5253°N 35.4817972°E / 32.5253; 35.4817972

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Sdei Trumot
Sde Trumot (Hebrew: שְׂדֵי תְרוּמוֹת‎‎) is a moshav in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. It is located about 7 km south of Beit She'an, and Israel Highway 90 passes through it. It belongs to the Valley of Springs Regional Council.
It was founded in 1951 by Jewish immigrants to Israel from Iraq and Kurdistan as part of the Hapoel Hamizrachi movement.
The name "Sde Trumot" is based on the lamentation of David for Saul and Jonathan who were killed in a war against the Philistines on the nearby Mount Gilboa. The lamentation is recorded in the first chapter of Samuel II. The words "Sde Trumot", meaning "fields of offerings" (of grain), appear in Samuel II, chapter 1, verse 21. The new settlers want to restore these fruitful fields of grain offerings.
The moshav is one of four moshavim in the "Bikurah" bloc. The others are Revaya, Rechov, and Tel Teomim, which are all located nearby.
The original inhabitants of the settlement worked in agriculture and cattle raising. Today some of them perform modern agriculture using greenhouses and other technology.

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Shluhot
Shluhot (Hebrew: שִׁלוּחוֹת‎‎, lit. Branches) is an Orthodox kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. Located about three kilometres south of the city of Beit She'an, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council.
Shluhot was founded in 1948 by former members of the Bnei Akiva Zionist youth movement. In the beginning, a temporary joint camp was set up with a group from the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. Shortly thereafter, when each group received land to build separate kibbutzim, the secular members of the group formed the adjacent kibbutz of Reshafim. The kibbutz is one of four religious kibbutzim that are located in a cluster south of Beit She'an stretching from Shluhot at the base of the Mount Gilboa through Ein HaNatziv and Sde Eliyahu until Tirat Zvi adjacent to the Jordan River.
The kibbutz was founded on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Ashrafiyya.
Today, the kibbutz population numbers about 120 families, including 350 people.

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Tel Te'omim
Tel Te'omim (Hebrew: תֵּל תְּאוֹמִים‎‎) is a communal settlement in the Beit She'an valley in northern Israel. Located about 6 km south of Beit She'an, just east of Highway 90, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 362.
The village was founded in 1982 as an expansion of the three other moshavim in its vicinity: Revaya, Rehov, and Sde Trumot. Together these four settlements are combined in the "Bikurah" bloc. The population of Tel Te'omim is mostly composed of people who originally lived in the other three moshavim.
The name "Tel Te'omim", which means "twin hills" or the "hill of twins", is associated with a pair of nearby hills of archeological interest.

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Tirat Zvi
Tirat Zvi (Hebrew: טִירַת צְבִי‎‎, lit. Zvi Castle) is a religious kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley, ten kilometers south of the city of Beit She'an, Israel, just west of the Jordan River and the Israel-Jordan border. It falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In 2006, the kibbutz had a population of 654.
Tirat Zvi sits 220 meters below sea level. On June 22, 1942, it recorded the highest daytime temperature in Asia (53,7ºC; 128,7ºF).
The kibbutz was founded on June 30, 1937 as part of the tower and stockade settlement enterprise. The founders were Jews from Poland, Romania and Germany. The pioneers hailed from two groups: Kvutzat Shahal and Kvutzat Rudges. The kibbutz is named after Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer, one of the fathers of the Zionist Movement and a leader of Hovevei Zion. The "tira" refers to a two-storey mud-brick structure purchased from the Arab landowner, Musa al-Almi.
The kibbutz was attacked on February, 28, 1938 by an armed Arab mob during the Arab revolt. The attack was repelled with many casualties on both sides.

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Yardena
Yardena (Hebrew: יַרְדֵּנָה‎‎) is a moshav in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. It is located about 8 miles north of Beit She'an, adjacent to Beit Yosef. It belongs to the Valley of Springs Regional Council.
Yardena was founded in 1952 by immigrants to Israel from Kurdistan. It is named "Yardena" because of its proximity to the Jordan River, which is called the Yarden river in Hebrew.

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Arab
Arab people, also known as Arabs (Arabic: عرب‎, ʿarab), are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds, with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal relationships playing an important part of Arab identity.
The word "Arab" has had several different, but overlapping, meanings over the centuries (and sometimes even today). In addition to including all Arabized people of the world (with language tending to be the acid test), it has also at times been used exclusively for bedouin (Arab nomads [although a related word, "`a-RAB," with the Arabic letter "alif" in the second syllable, once was sometimes used when this specific meaning was intended] and their now almost entirely settled descendants). It is sometimes used that way colloquially even today in some places. Townspeople once were sometimes called "sons of the Arabs." As in the case of other ethnicities or nations, people identify themselves (or are identified by others) as "Arabs" to varying degrees. This may not be one's primary identity (it tends to compete with country, religion, sect, etc.), and whether it is emphasized may depend upon one's audience.

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Zvi Hirsch Kalischer
Zvi (Zwi) Hirsch Kalischer (March 24, 1795 – October 16, 1874) was an Orthodox German rabbi and one of Zionism's early pioneers in Germany.
Kalischer was born in Lissa (Leszno) in the Prussian Province of Posen. Destined for the rabbinate, he received his Talmudic education from Jacob of Lissa and Rabbi Akiva Eiger of Posen. After his marriage he left Lissa and settled in Toruń, where he spent the rest of his life. Here he took an active interest in the affairs of the Jewish community, and for more than forty years held the office of Rabbinatsverweser ("acting rabbi"). Disinterestedness was a prominent feature of his character; he refused to accept any remuneration for his services. His wife, by means of a small business, provided their meager subsistence.
In his youth he wrote Eben Bochan, a commentary on several juridical themes of the Shulkhan Arukh, Choshen Mishpat (Krotoschin, 1842), and Sefer Moznayim la-Mishpat, a commentary, in three parts on the whole Choshen Mishpat' (parts i. and ii., Krotoschin and Königsberg, 1855; part iii. still in manuscript). He also wrote: Tzvi L'Tzadik (צבי לצדיק) glosses on the Shulkhan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah, published in the new Vilna edition of that work; the Sefer ha-Berit commentary on the Pentateuch; the Sefer Yetzi'at Mitzrayim commentary on the Passover Pesach Haggadah; Chiddushim on several Talmudical treatises; etc. He also contributed largely to Hebrew magazines, as Ha-Maggid, Tziyyon, Ha-'Ibri, and Ha-Lebanon.

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Tirat Zvi

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Hebrew

טִירַת צְבִי

Founded

30 June 1937

Founded by

European immigrants

Council

Valley of Springs

District

North

Affiliation

Religious Kibbutz Movement

Coordinates

32°25′18″N 35°31′28″E / 32.42167°N 35.52444°ECoordinates: 32°25′18″N 35°31′28″E / 32.42167°N 35.52444°E

Population

645

Tirat Zvi

Website

www.tiratzvi.org.il

Tirat Zvi (Hebrew: טִירַת צְבִי‎‎, lit. Zvi Castle) is a religious kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley, ten kilometers south of the city of Beit She'an, Israel, just west of the Jordan River and the Israel-Jordan border. It falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In 2006, the kibbutz had a population of 654.

1 Geography
2 History
3 Economy
4 References

Geography [link]

Tirat Zvi sits 220 meters below sea level. On June 22, 1942, it recorded the highest daytime temperature in Asia (53,7ºC; 128,7ºF).^[1]

History [link]

The kibbutz was founded on June 30, 1937 as part of the tower and stockade settlement enterprise. The founders were Jews from Poland, Romania and Germany. The pioneers hailed from two groups: Kvutzat Shahal and Kvutzat Rudges. The kibbutz is named after Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer, one of the fathers of the Zionist Movement and a leader of Hovevei Zion. The "tira" refers to a two-storey mud-brick structure purchased from the Arab landowner, Musa al-Almi.^[2]

The kibbutz was attacked on February, 28, 1938 by an armed Arab mob during the Arab revolt. The attack was repelled with many casualties on both sides.^[3]

On June 21, 1942, the highest temperature ever recorded on the Asian continent was observed at Tirat Zvi. The temperature was 53.9 °C (129.0 °F).^[4]

On February 20, 1948, before the neighboring Arab nations officially joined the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, a battalion of the Arab Liberation Army led by Muhammed Safa attacked Tirat Zvi. The Arabs were repelled, after 60 of the attackers were killed. One kibbutz member Naftali Fridlander Z"L was killed in the fighting.

Economy [link]

The kibbutz operates a meat processing factory, Tiv, which sells its products locally and abroad. Tirat Zvi is the largest date grower in Israel, with 18,000 trees.^[5]The kibbutz also has a lulav business. Working with scientists from the Volcani Institute, Tirat Zvi developed a method of preserving the palm fronds for several months, allowing them to be harvested in the spring and sold in the fall, for use on the holiday of Sukkot. In 2009, it produced 70,000 lulavs.^[6]

References [link]

^ "NCDC Global measured extremes". http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalextremes.html. Retrieved 2007-11-06.
^ Yorav.co.il, History of Kibbutz Tirat Zvi
^ Yorav.co.il, History of Kibbutz Tirat Zvi
^ Global Weather & Climate Extremes World Meteorological Organization
^ Haaretz.com, Lulav growers
^ Haaretz.com, Lulav growers

Edna Margolis, Isidor Margolis, R. Cohen & J. Cohen, Jew and Arab on the Border: A story of Religious Pioneering, Hapoel Hamizrachi of America, 1940, New York, Edited by Aaron Binnun.

v t e Valley of Springs Regional Council

Kibbutzim	Ein HaNatziv · Gesher · Hamadia · Kfar Ruppin · Ma'ale Gilboa · Maoz Haim · Meirav · Mesilot · Neve Eitan · Neve Ur · Nir David · Reshafim · Sde Eliyahu · Sde Nahum · Shluhot · Tirat Zvi

Moshavim	Beit Yosef · Rehov · Revaya · Sdei Trumot · Yardena

Communal settlements	Tel Te'omim

Other villages	Malkishua · Menahemia

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