Tel Yitzhak

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Tel Yitzhak
תֵּל יִצְחָק‎
The Massuah Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Kibbutz Tel Yitzhak.jpg
Tel Yitzhak is located in Central Israel
Tel Yitzhak
Tel Yitzhak
Coordinates: 32°15′8.64″N 34°52′8.76″E / 32.2524000°N 34.8691000°E / 32.2524000; 34.8691000Coordinates: 32°15′8.64″N 34°52′8.76″E / 32.2524000°N 34.8691000°E / 32.2524000; 34.8691000
CountryIsrael
DistrictCentral
CouncilHof HaSharon
AffiliationHaOved HaTzioni
Founded1938
Founded byGalician immigrants
Population
 (2019)[1]
1,021

Tel Yitzhak (Hebrew: תֵּל יִצְחָק‎, lit. Yitzhak Hill) is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain to the south-east of Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council. In 2019 it had a population of 1,021.[1]

History[]

The region of Tel Yitzhak, bordering the wetlands of the Poleg stream, has been inhabited intermittently since the Middle Paleolithic age, with peak periods of settlement during the Middle and Late Bronze Age (17th -13th centuries BCE), the Byzantine (4th - 7th centuries CE) and Late Ottoman periods (19- early 20th centuries CE).[2]

The kibbutz was established in 1938 by General Zionist immigrants[3] from Galicia as part of the tower and stockade settlement campaign. It was named after Yitzhak Steiger, a leader of HaNoar HaTzioni in Galicia.

Haaretz newspaper press, Tel Yitzhak

Masua, a center for Holocaust research and commemoration, was established on the kibbutz.[4]

Nature reserve[]

Southwest of the kibbutz is an 8-dunam nature reserve established in 1968[5] to protect flora and fauna native to the Sharon plain.[6] Flora includes Ceratonia siliqua, Calicotome villosa, Thymelaea hirsuta, Prasium majus, Anagyris, and Lavandula stoechas.

Historic images[]

  • Tel Yitzhak construction of watchtower 1938

  • Tel Yitzhak construction of wall, July 1938

  • Tel Yitzhak 1939

  • Tel Yitzhak 1944 1:20,000 (bottom right quadrant:Tel Yits-haq)

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Population in the Localities 2019" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  2. ^ Marom, Roy (2008). From Time Immemorial: Chapters in the History of Even Yehuda and its Region in Light of Historical and Archaeological Research (Hebrew) \ מימי קדם קדמתה: פרקים בתולדות אבן יהודה וסביבתה לאור המחקר ההיסטורי והארכיאולוגי.
  3. ^ Dov Levin (2000). The Litvaks: A Short History of the Jews in Lithuania. Yad Vashem Jerusalem. p. 162. ISBN 9781571812643.
  4. ^ Berenbaum, Michael; Peck, Abraham J., eds. (2002). The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 797. ISBN 0-253-21529-3.
  5. ^ "List of National Parks and Nature Reserves" (PDF) (in Hebrew). Israel Nature and Parks Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 7, 2009. Retrieved 2010-09-27.
  6. ^ "Tel Yitzhak Nature Reserve" (in Hebrew). iNature.info. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
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