Magdiel (school)

Magdiel (Hebrew: מגדיאל‎) is a Youth Aliyah boarding school in Hod Hasharon, Israel.

Restored hut of Magdiel pioneers

History

Magdiel was established as a home and school for children who survived the Holocaust. [1] Its location, Magdiel, was an agricultural village founded in 1924 by Jewish immigrants from Russia, Poland and Lithuania, later joined by a group from the Netherlands.[2]

In 1964, the village of Magdiel, along with Ramatayim, Hadar, and Ramat Hadar, merged to become Hod Hasharon. [2]

Other schools at Magdiel include a comprehensive secondary school and a technical vocational boarding school of the ORT educational network.

Notable residents
gollark: DAKKA
gollark: You are FAILING!!!
gollark: You are not following THE B O O K.
gollark: Try subliminal messaging. Put speaker systems in the walls which constantly play TTSed paragraphs from the books.
gollark: We have large amounts of books too, but they're mostly just fiction, tons of random stuff on politics/finance, and also stuff like the history of Peru and random philsophy stuff..

See also

References
  1. http://www.njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/101906/moSurvivorDescribes.html
  2. Encyclopedia Judaica, Keter Publishing House, Jerusalem, 1972, Vol. 8, p. 802, "Hod Ha-Sharon"


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