Gesher, Israel

Gescher (Hebrew: גֶּשֶׁר, German: Bridge ) is a kibbutz situated in the Beth- Shean Valley in northeastern Israel. In 1939, immigrants founded him from Germany. Gescher is the responsibility of the Regional Council of the Valley of the sources and belongs to the kibbutz movement. It is 10 km south of Kibbutz Degania Aleph and 15km south of Tiberias. Today, living in the kibbutz about 500 inhabitants. Gescher owes its name to the nearby hydroelectric power plant and the Jordan Bridge " Mesopotamia " ( German " two rivers ").

The kibbutz area was acquired in 1939 with the help of Edmond de Rothschild. ( " Association of Workers and Students Youth" German ) and a group of young Jews of the kibbutz members of the youth movement Histadrut ha - ha - No'ar Owed we- ha - Lomed was set up by a group of Jews who were born in Palestine, from Germany. Later they were followed by more Jewish immigrants from Poland, Germany, Austria and other Palestinian Jews.

From April to May 1948 was Gescher under attack by Iraqi forces and the Arab Legion. After the Israeli War of Independence, the settlement was moved a few hundred meters to the northwest. In the 1990s, the kibbutz underwent a privatization process. Only in the areas of education, health, culture and leisure, the collective has been preserved. After the peace treaty with Jordan a museum Gescher and founded by Pinchas Rutenberg hydroelectric power plant opened on the original kibbutz reason.

Culture and sights

Museums

The museum contains a variety of Gescher aspects: First, it provides the basis of the bridges, the history of the place since ancient times is, through the bunkers especially the fighting during the Unabhäüngigkeitskrieges; then you can learn from the then very modern hydroelectric plant and the daily life in the kibbutz.