Ein Harod

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En Harod (Hebrew עין חרוד ), on German " Harod ," is one of the first major kibbutz - ups; the place is located at the foot of Mount Gilboa, near the Harod source, in northern Israel. Here is the Battle of Ain ​​Jalut between the Mamluks of Egypt under Sultan Qutuz and the Mongols took place on September 3, 1260.

En Harod was established on 22 September 1921 by young, coming from Russia workers and workers of Gdud Haavoda, which include the writer Avraham Shlonsky counted. The place name comes from the biblical period (for example, the book of Judges, Gideon story, Ri 7.1 ). 1930 moved to the settlement after the nearby Tel Kumi -Josef. Yitzhak Tabenkin joined 1924 En Harod and made ​​it the center of the kibbutz movement Hakibbutz Hameuchad. Janusz Korczak visited Palestine En Harod on his travels in 1934 and 1936.

"Here in the kibbutz, the British officer Orde Wingate kept the late '30s to frequently. He supported one of the few British from Biblical faith Zionism ". Wingate felt close to the biblical judge Gideon, who was connected with the area.

In 1953 came because of ideological differences for splitting in the neighboring settlements En Harod Ihud and En Harod Hameuchad.

Today there are in En Harod, which is re-united, a great museum about the history and nature of the area, the Beit Shturman Museum, which reports also of Wingate's role, and a Museum of Art

Reception

A place called Ein Harod is a last destroyed by the army radio station or retreat of Israeli and Palestinian pacifists in Alessandra Mussolini feature film Ha - Derech l' Ein Harod ( or " The Road to Ein Harod ", German title but Phantom Fighters, English title Doomsday. The Voice of Ein Harod, 1990). The film is based on the eponymous novel by Amos Kenan bleak future of 1984.