Ein Tzurim
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Ein Tzurim (Template:Langx, lit. Rock Spring) is a religious kibbutz in southern Israel. Located south of Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council and is a member of the Religious Kibbutz Movement. In Template:Israel populations it had a population of Template:Israel populations.Template:Israel populations
History
Original kibbutz
The kibbutz was founded on 23 October 1946 as a new settlement in Gush Etzion (east of the present-day location). Its founders were Palestine-born members of the fifth gar'in of Bnei Akiva that had formed in Tirat Zvi.[1]
By 1947 the kibbutz had a population of 80. However, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war, it was destroyed by the Jordanian army along with all the other settlements in Gush Etzion. The men who stayed to fight were captured as prisoners of war and taken to the Mafrak Prisoner of War camp.[1]
With the renewal of Jewish settlement in Gush Etzion after the Six-Day War, a new kibbutz called Rosh Tzurim was founded on the original location of Ein Tzurim.
Relocation
In 1949 the people who left Ein Tzurim founded a new kibbutz in south-central Israel near the existing villages of Zerahia, Shafir and Merkaz Shapira, and they named it "Ein Tzurim" as a symbol of continuity.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". It was founded on land belonging to the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya.[2]
In the 1980s two major educational centers were built in the area of the kibbutz; Yeshivat HaKibbutz HaDati and the Yaakov Herzog Center for the Study of Judaism. However, in 2008 the yeshiva closed due to insufficient enrollment.[3] Every Yom Kippur former students return to pray together.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
After the Gaza disengagement in 2005, some evacuees from Gush Katif moved into a trailer park near the kibbutz and plans were drawn up for permanent housing.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Economy
The economy is based on fruit orchards (lemon and persimmon), vegetable crops (artichokes), dairy farming and turkey-breeding. The kibbutz also has an air-conditioner factory and runs a guesthouse.
Historic images
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The four kibbutzes of the Gush Etzion at the time of the 1948 war (Kfar Etzion, Ein Zurim, Massuot Yitzhak, Revadim) overlaid on a 1943 Survey of Palestine map
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Ein Tzurim 1947
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Kibbutz Ein Tzurim, 1947
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Ein Tzurim under construction October 1946
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Ein Tzurim Aliyah celebrations October 1946
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References
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- ↑ Swan song for kibbutz yeshiva Ynetnews, 3 October 2008
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Further reading
- Yossi Katz, Between Jerusalem and Hebron: Jewish Settlement in the Pre-State Period
External links
- Information about the original Kibbutz Ein Tzurim Template:Webarchive Etzion Bloc Template:In lang
- Yaakov Herzog Center for Jewish Studies
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- Shafir Regional Council
- Kibbutzim
- Religious Kibbutz Movement
- Populated places established in 1946
- Populated places established in 1949
- Jewish villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
- Jewish villages in Mandatory Palestine
- Populated places in Southern District (Israel)
- 1946 establishments in Mandatory Palestine
- 1949 establishments in Israel