Jad Mordechai
| Jad Mordechai | |||
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| hebrew : | יד מרדכי | ||
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| District : | south | ||
| Founded : | 1943 | ||
| Coordinates : | 31 ° 35 ' N , 34 ° 34' E | ||
| Height : | 43 m | ||
| Residents : | 767 (as of 2018) | ||
| Community code : | 0358 | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 2 | ||
| Postal code : | 79145 | ||
| Community type: | Kibbutz | ||
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Jad Mordechai ( Hebrew יד מרדכי - "Monument Mordechais") is a kibbutz in southern Israel , near Ashkelon and the border with the Gaza Strip .
history
The kibbutz was founded in 1943 ; it was named after the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Mordechaj Anielewicz . A museum deals with the ghetto uprising.
An important role is played Yad Mordechai in Israel's War of Independence (also called "Palestine War") in 1948. The residents of the town succeeded in a Advancing hostile Egyptian battalion with 15 times the head thickness for five days, stopping from 24 to 29 May 1948 and finally to withdraw. Meanwhile, the Israeli troops had time to regroup. An installation commemorates this struggle.
Life in the kibbutz
The Kibbutz Jad Mordechai is jointly managed. The kibbutz is self-sustaining from its agricultural profits. The partner is the Carmel Agricultural Cooperative . Oranges, avocados and grapefruits are mainly grown. The adults live in small houses, the children live day and night in the children's house. The families only see each other by the hour. We eat together in the dining room. Every adult only gets pocket money for his or her work. On the edge of the kibbutz located Volunteerscamp , with volunteers from around the world.
traffic
railroad
Under the name of the Arab village Dair as-Sinaid , Jad Mordechai had a station on the Sinai Railway from Beirut via Lod to Cairo from 1916 until the section in question was closed in the 1970s or 1980s (until 1967). Today, most of the railroad tracks in the Gaza Strip have been dismantled, the station buildings are still standing.
literature
- Margaret Larkin & Yad Mordechai Museum: The Six Days of Yad Mordechai. From the American by G. Geisler ( The Six Days of Yad Mordechai ). Peli Printing Works 1970 or Verlag Givatayim (Israel) o. J.
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 .
- ^ Central Welfare Office of the Jews in Germany eV: The War of Independence. ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Homepage (Hebrew)