Ayelet HaShahar

Ayelet HaShahar
Kibbutz
Hebrew transcription(s)
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Etymology: Hind of the Dawn
Ayelet HaShahar is located in Northeast Israel
Ayelet HaShahar
Ayelet HaShahar
Location within Northeast Israel
Ayelet HaShahar is located in Israel
Ayelet HaShahar
Ayelet HaShahar
Location within Israel
Coordinates: 33°1′22″N 35°34′39″E / 33.02278°N 35.57750°E / 33.02278; 35.57750
Country Israel
DistrictNorthern
SubdistrictSafed
CouncilUpper Galilee
AffiliationKibbutz Movement
Founded1915
FounderAshkenazi Jewish immigrants
Population
 (2024)
1,105
Websiteayelet.org.il

Ayelet HaShahar (Hebrew: איילת השחר, lit. 'Hind of the Dawn') is a kibbutz in northern Israel acquired in 1892 and settled in the second Aliyah, located on the Korazim Plateau, by the Rosh Pinna – Metulla road, it is approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of the city of Kiryat Shmona and falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In 2024, it had a population of 1,105.

Etymology

The name of the kibbutz, literally Hind of the Dawn, is taken from the first line of Psalm 22

History

House in Ayelet HaShahar

The land was bought by the Jewish Colonization Association in 1892, and first settled by immigrants from Europe in 1915 during the Second Aliyah period. A census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, recorded a population of 78 Jews. During the end of the British mandate, the kibbutz was the staging ground for Palmach operations: Night of the Bridges and the bombing of the Yarmuk Bridge (16–17 June 1946).[citation needed]

After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Ayelet HaShahar absorbed land near the newly depopulated Palestinian village of Yarda.

Economy

Ayelet HaShahar is one of the larger fruit producers in Israel. They also raise dairy cattle and poultry, and manage beehives (the kibbutz is a major producer of Israel's honey). There are fish ponds, which take water from canals that drain the nearby Hula Valley swamps.

Landmarks

Tel Hazor, the capital of Canaanite Galilee, lies opposite the kibbutz. The Archaeological Museum of Hatzor is located at the kibbutz. Antiquities from Tel Hazor are displayed, but many of the original artifacts are actually at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Notable people

References

  1. 1 2 "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2026.
  2. ↑ Barron, 1923, p. 41
  3. ↑ Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 504. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  4. ↑ Israel Museum Israeli Art Information Center

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