Barkai

For people with the surname, see Barkai (surname).

Barkai

בַּרְקַאי
Barkai
Coordinates: 32°28′N 35°01′E
CountryIsrael
DistrictHaifa
CouncilMenashe
RegionWadi Ara
AffiliationKibbutz Movement
Founded10 May 1949
Founded byRomanian and Polish Jews
Population
 (2019)[1]
553
Name meaningMorning star
Websitewww.barkai.org.il

Barkai (Hebrew: בַּרְקַאי, lit. morning star) is an Israeli kibbutz in the Menashe Regional Council on the western side of Wadi Ara. In 2019, it had a population of 553.[1]

History

Kibbutz Barkai was founded on 10 May 1949 on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Wadi Ara.[2][3]

Economic branches include thermal and acoustic insulation, lamination and packaging: the Polyon Barkai factory; and agriculture: cattle, poultry, avocado and field crops.

Infimer Technologies manufactures a recycled composite polymer that serves as raw material for plastic manufacturers. Combined with virgin plastic, it is used to make chairs, tables, crates, plumbing pipes and toolboxes.[4]

gollark: I might get the ebook whenever it's available.
gollark: In relative or absolute terms?
gollark: If you're offloading all your complex real-time computing somewhere else, then currently that means you'll probably just burn away the power savings on running your device's 4G radios and have it randomly break when bandwidth drops low enough.
gollark: The nice thing about advancing technology is that it gets more feasible as time goes on.
gollark: There *are* dedicated "AI accelerators" on modern SoCs, too, maybe that could help.

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