HaOgen

HaOgen
  • הָעֹגֶן (Hebrew)
HaOgen is located in Central Israel
HaOgen
HaOgen
Location within Central Israel
Coordinates: 32°21′49″N 34°55′25″E / 32.36361°N 34.92361°E / 32.36361; 34.92361
Country Israel
DistrictCentral
SubdistrictHaSharon
CouncilHefer Valley
AffiliationKibbutz Movement
Founded28 August 1947
FounderCzechoslovak Jews
Population
 (2024)
828
Websitehttp://www.haogen.org.il/

HaOgen (Hebrew: העוגן, הָעֹגֶן, lit. 'Anchor') is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek Hefer Regional Council and is affiliated with Hashomer Hatzair. In 2024 it had a population of 828.

History

The community was established on 22 April 1939 by Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia. After spending eight years in a camp near Kfar Saba, they founded the kibbutz on 28 August 1947, on land located near the Arab village of Wadi Qabbani. The Jewish National Fund provided 700 dunams of land for the kibbutz.

Notable people

References

  1. 1 2 "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2026.
  2. ↑ First first and last last Archived 2017-11-12 at the Wayback Machine HaOgen
  3. ↑ Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 566. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  4. ↑ "קמו שני ישובים חדשים". Al HaMishmar (in Hebrew). 29 August 1947.
  5. ↑ Powers, Janet M. (2006). Blossoms on the Olive Tree: Israeli and Palestinian Women Working for Peace. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780275990015.