Dan, Israel

33.23916666666735.653055555556Koordinaten: 33 ° 14 ' N, 35 ° 39' O

The Kibbutz Dan (Hebrew דן ) is a collective settlement in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel.

The village is located eight kilometers east of Kiryat Shmona, near the Lebanese border at the foot of the Golan.

The kibbutz was founded in 1939 as a Tower and stockade settlement. Its name derives from the ancient city of Dan ago, whose remains at Tel Dan (one kilometers to the north ) are ( in the Bible, for example, in 1 Kings 12:29; 1 Sam 3,20 mentioned). There, the settlement area of ​​the tribe of Dan said to have been his ( in the Bible, for example, in 1.Mose 14:14; mentioned Jos 19.40 to 48 ). There also arises from the Dan River, the main source of the river Jordan.

Economically significant is the breeding of trout and the extraction of Osetra caviar.

Tourist interest are the " Dan Nature Reserve " with a luxuriant vegetation in the area of the river and the ancient settlement mound Tel Dan and a museum at the kibbutz, among others with information on the reclamation of the Huleebene and with finds from Tel