Na'an

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Na'an (Hebrew נען, pronounced: [ nʌʔʌn ] ) is a kibbutz near the city of Rehovot in the Central District of Israel.

The collective farming settlement was founded in September 1930 by 42 grown in the country members of the Youth League Histadrut ha - No'ar ha - Owed we- ha - Lomed on a site, which they had acquired with the help of the Jewish National Fund ( KKL), having previously belonged to the Arab village of Al- Na'ani.

Members of Na'an - among them Yisrael Galili - played a key role in the Haganah, the place in 1948 the headquarters of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF ). The kibbutz began with vegetables and dairy industry and over the years developed a flourishing industry for irrigation systems. Since the 1980s, facilities were privatized and thus abandoned piece by piece socialist ways of working of the start-up phase in Na'an. From a strong preoccupation with agriculture and fruit growing out of the kibbutz Na'an has become in the recent past as a center of organic farming in Israel.