Givat Brenner

31.86449722222234.8003Koordinaten: 31 ° 52 'N, 34 ° 48 ' E

Givat Brenner (Hebrew גבעת ברנר, also: Giv'at burner ) is at Rehovot south of Tel Aviv to the number of residents - about 1,400 - the largest kibbutz in Israel.

Givat Brenner was founded in 1928 by predominantly young people from Russia and Poland to the land of the Jewish Agency and is coming after from Ukraine, named in 1921 murdered writer Joseph Chaim Brenner. The Kvutza (Eng. "Group") from an initial 33 people with some tents organized itself as a socialist collective. Soon came from Lithuania structure willing and Western Europe, including a youth group Herut in a second wave of immigration ( German "Freedom " ) from near Hameln. Gradually developed orchards, a canning factory, a furniture production, a company for the manufacture of irrigation equipment, schools and community facilities.

One of the pioneers of Givat Brenner, Enzo Sereni (1905-1944), fell in 1944 while trying to rescue persecuted Jews, after a parachute jump in Italy to German hands and was murdered in the Dachau concentration camp. He was tried as a pacifist to the peaceful coexistence of Arab and Jewish citizens of Palestine.

1952 a group of Givat Brenner split off and founded Kibbutz Netzer Sereni the. Occasion were differences of opinion about the attitude of the Soviet Union.

The writer Amos Oz taught at a local school. The General Yitzhak Sadeh and the historian and educator Chaim Seeligmann are buried in Givat Brenner.