Ashdot Ya'akov

Aschdot Yaakov (Hebrew אַשְׁדוֹת יַעֲקֹב ) consists of two kibbutzim in northern Israel, south of the Sea of ​​Galilee, near the border with Jordan, namely Aschdot Yaakov Ihud (2006: 531 inhabitants) and Aschdot Yaakov Me'uchad (2006: 355 inhabitants).

The name means " the waterfalls of Jacob " and was chosen in memory of Baron Jacob Rothschild, the is due to the acquisition of the land of the settlement. Secondly, the local name refers to the " nearby waterfalls of the confluence of the Yarmuk in the Jordan ."

The settlement of the area of Galilee by Jewish immigrants began in the late 19th century, and all but two new settlements were established in the east of the region by the year 1936. Only after 1936 the remaining part of the Galilee was inhabited by Jews.

The kibbutz Aschdot Yaakov was founded by members of a Latvian youth movement in 1924. First, we settled on the site of today's Kibbutz Gesher. 1935 drew the kibbutz to its present place. The new site was first called Dalhamia (Arabic Delhemiyeh ) after the name of an abandoned Bedouin settlement. It is probably referred to in the Bible place Dalmanutha ( mentioned in the Bible: Gospel of Mark chapter 8, verses 9-10 - Feeding of the four thousand ). In 1936, the kibbutz its present name. During the period of Aschdot Yaakov was (founded in 1927), which was " in social policy issues rather left in security activist, so right" based on the organization HaMe'uchad. Joseph procrastinator, a 2008 late Kibbuznik from Me'uchad kibbutz, who emigrated from Remscheid in this kibbutz 1938 ( fled ), reported on the Internet by his memories of the Remscheid- time until 1938.

In 1953 they parted social democratic Mapai dominated kibbutz with their association Ichud HaKvutzot VeHaKibbutzim and founded the Ichud kibbutz, while the left-wing socialist residents now formed the Me'uchad kibbutz. Both kibbutzim were spatially but always into each other and are surrounded by a common security fence.

Today, both kibbutzim belong to the kibbutz movement formed by the union in 1999.

For several years, the socialist principles could no longer be sustained, but made ​​market economy individualistic changes through. Today, Israelis move out of town because of the high quality of life in the countryside on the kibbutz, but have no relation to the original socialist idea.

Dan Shomron, 1987-1991 Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army IDF, was born on August 5, 1937 in Ashdod Yaacov. He had in 1976 as paratroopers commanded the command that freed the hijacked to Uganda during Operation Entebbe and Airbus was " the savior of Entebbe ". Shomron died on 26 February 2008 in Ra'anana.

Culture and sights

In Me'uchad kibbutz:

  • Bet Eyal, a new sport, meeting people and the fallen memorial center, initiated by the mother of a fallen soldier in Lebanon.

Museums

  • Naharayim, an information center on the situated directly south of Ashdod Ya'akov Location: over the old, famous hydroelectric power plant, the peace agreement with Jordan and the special rules for the peace island and the memorial garden for a Jordanian soldiers shot dead seven Israeli schoolgirls.

In Me'uchad kibbutz:

  • Beit Uri and Rami Nehushtan, an art museum.
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