Sde Nehemia
Sde Nehemia | |
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| Country | Israel |
| Region | Upper Galilee |
| Affiliation | Kibbutz Movement |
| Founded | 1940 |
| Founded by | Austrian and Dutch immigrants |
Sde Nehemia (Template:Lang-he-n, lit. Nehemia's Field) (Sde Nehemya) is a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee region of Israel. It falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In 2015, it had a population of 1000. The Banias and Hasbani Rivers converge on the grounds of the kibbutz.
History
Sde Nehemia was founded in 1940 by immigrants from Austria and the Netherlands and Czech. on land bought from the Arab village of al-Dawwara. It was originally known as Kvutzat Huliot, but later renamed after Nehemia de Lieme,a Dutch banker and Zionist activist who served as head of the Jewish National Fund.[1]
In the early days of the kibbutz, the pioneers lived in tents in the midst of malaria-infested swampland. One of them, Dr. Yehuda Abas, a physician, distributed anti-malarial pills free of charge to the local Arab population but discovered they were being cut into four and sold for large sums of money to Arabs from Syria and Lebanon. Abas's solution was to introduce injections.[2]
Rafael Reiss from Sde Nehemia was one of seven parachutists sent into Nazi-occupied Europe in 1944. He was captured by the Nazis and executed on November 20, 1944. [3]
Differential salaries were implemented in 2003, this ending the kibbutz tradition of economic equality.
Economy
Located in the fertile Hula Valley between the Golan Heights and Lebanon, agriculture is a significant source of income. The kibbutz also owns a plastics factory, Huliot, a leading manufacturer of pipe systems and plastic products. Huliot specializes in flow products for water supply, drainage, sewage and grey water recycling which it sells on the local and global markets. The factory was established in 1947.[4]
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