Ashdot Ya'akov
Ashdot Ja'akov ( Hebrew אַשְׁדוֹת יַעֲקֹב Ashdōt Jaʿaqōv ) consists of two kibbutzim in northern Israel, south of the Sea of Galilee and near the border with Jordan , namely Ashdot Ja'akov Ichud (2018: 981 inhabitants) and Ashdot Ja'akov Me'uchad (2018: 513 inhabitants).
The name means "Jacob's waterfalls" and was chosen in memory of Baron Jakob Rothschild , who owes the acquisition of the land of the settlement. On the other hand, the place name refers to the “nearby waterfalls where the Yarmuk flows into the Jordan”.
history
The settlement of the Galilee area by Jewish immigrants began in the late 19th century, and all but two new settlements were established in the east of the region by 1936. Only after 1936 was the rest of the Galilee settled by Jews .
The kibbutz Ashdot Ja'akov was founded in 1924 by members of a Latvian youth movement. Initially, people settled on the site of today's Kibbutz Gesher .
In 1935 the kibbutz moved to its current location. The new location was initially called Dalhamia (Arabic Delhemiyeh) after the name of an abandoned Bedouin settlement. This is probably the place Dalmanutha mentioned in the Bible (mentioned in the Bible: Gospel of Mark, chapter 8, verses 9-10 - feeding the four thousand). In 1936 the kibbutz got its current name. During the founding period, Ashdot Ja'akov belonged to the ha-Qibbutz ha-Me'uchad organization (founded in 1927), which was "more left-wing in social policy issues, activist in security policy, i.e. right-wing".
Joseph Zauderer, a kibbutznik from the Me'uchad kibbutz who died in 2008 and who emigrated (fled) from Remscheid to this kibbutz in 1938 , reports on the Internet about his memories of the Remscheid period up to 1938.
In 1953, social-democratic split Mapai embossed kibbutz with her association Ichud ha-ha-we-Qvutzot Qibbuzim (founded in 1951) and founded the Ichud Kibbutz, while the left-wing Socialist residents now the Me'uchad kibbutz formed. Both kibbutzim always merged spatially and are surrounded by a common security fence.
Today both kibbutzim belong to the kibbutz movement that was formed in 1999 through unification .
For several years, the socialist principles could no longer be maintained, but went through market-economy-individualistic changes. Today, because of the high quality of life, Israelis from abroad settle in the country in the kibbutz, but they have no relation to its originally socialist idea.
Dan Shomron , Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces from 1987 to 1991 , was born on August 5, 1937 in Ashdot Ya'akov. In 1976, as a paratrooper, he commanded the command that freed the Airbus hijacked to Uganda during Operation Entebbe and became "the savior of Entebbe ". Shomron died on February 26, 2008 in Ra'anana.
Culture and sights
In the Me'uchad kibbutz:
- Bet Eyal , a new sports, meeting and memorial center for the fallen, initiated by the mother of a soldier who died in Lebanon.
Museums
- Naharayim , an information center about the place directly south of Ashdot Ja'akov: about the old, famous hydroelectric power station, the peace agreement with Jordan and the special regulations for the Peace Island and the garden memorial for the seven Israeli schoolgirls shot by a Jordanian soldier.
In the Me'uchad kibbutz:
- Beit Uri and Rami Nechushtan , an art museum.
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 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Scheel: Lexicon of biblical names of places in modern Israel. 3. Edition. Hammerbrücke 2003, ISBN 3-933750-32-6 , p. 35 f.
- ↑ Michael Wolffsohn, Douglas Bokovoy: Israel. 4th edition Opladen 1995, ISBN 3-8100-1310-2 , p. 344.
- ↑ Report on the life of Jews in Remscheid until 1938