Gescher (kibbutz)
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| hebrew : | גשר | ||
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| District : | North | ||
| Founded : | 1939 | ||
| Coordinates : | 32 ° 37 ' N , 35 ° 33' E | ||
| Height : | 200 m | ||
| Residents : | 421 (as of 2018) | ||
| Community code : | 0305 | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 2 | ||
| Postal code : | 15157 | ||
| Community type: | Kibbutz | ||
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Gescher ( Hebrew גֶּשֶׁר 'Bridge' ) is a kibbutz located in the Bet-She'an Valley in northeast Israel . It was founded by immigrants from Germany in 1939 . Gescher is the responsibility of the Regional Council of the Valley of the Sources and belongs to the kibbutz movement . It is located 10 km south of Kibbutz Degania Aleph and 15 km south of Tiberias . In 2018 there were 421 residents in the kibbutz. Gescher owes its name to the neighboring hydroelectric power station and the Jordan Bridge "Naharajim" (German for "both rivers").
history
The kibbutz area was bought in 1939 with the help of Edmond de Rothschild . The kibbutz was built up by a group of Jews who were born in Palestine, members of the youth movement Histadrut ha-No'ar ha-Owed we-ha-Lomed (German: "Association of workers and student youth ") and a group of young Jews from Germany. They were later followed by other Jewish immigrants from Poland, Germany, Austria and other Palestinian Jews.
In April to May 1948 Gescher was under fire by the Iraqi armed forces and the Arab Legion . After the Israeli War of Independence , the settlement was moved several hundred meters to the northwest. In the 1990s the kibbutz went through a process of privatization. The collective was only preserved in the areas of education , health , culture and leisure. After the peace treaty with Jordan , a museum about Gescher and the hydroelectric power station founded by Pinchas Ruthenberg was opened on the original kibbutz ground .
Culture and sights
Museums
The Gescher Museum contains a variety of aspects: On the one hand, it uses the bridges to show the history of the place since antiquity, and the bunker, in particular, of the battles during the War of Independence; then you learn about the then very modern hydroelectric power station and daily life in the kibbutz.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .
- ^ Museum von Gesher ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
