Ein HaShofet

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En haSchofet, Hebrew עֵין הַשּׁוֹפֵט, literally source of the judge ( after the American Chief Justice Louis D. Brandeis and Zionists ) is an Israeli kibbutz in the north of the country, 30 km from Haifa and administratively belonging to the Megiddo region. It was founded in 1937 at the time of the British mandate of Palestine as tower and stockade settlement. In 2008, he counted 759 inhabitants.

En haSchofet was founded by a group of settlers who had previously resided in the area Hadera and then in Joara. The group was formed from two Hashomer Hatzair - groups, a native of Poland and an American. The foundation was also from military considerations, during the Arab revolt in 1936 until 1939.

The first agrarian character of the settlement changed over the decades. Today, it draws its main income from four factories, three of which is domiciled in the kibbutz and one in the United States. ELTAM, founded in 1967 as " A Hashofet Electric Industries " produces various components for electrical appliances; Mivrag, founded in 1950, manufactures screws and other metal objects; MAG EH, founded in 1999, produces parts for the automotive industry and has since 2001 on a branch in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Cattle production of En haSchofet began in 1938. 270 Today cows are kept. In addition, the settlement has an avocado plantation and operates poultry.

For many decades the settlement operates an Ulpan for people who want to settle in Israel, and has also one of the times when this was popular, recorded numerous volunteers from Europe.