Yir'on

Yir'on
Yir'on; יִרְאוֹן‎
	Yir'on Yir'on
	Coordinates: 33°4′37.19″N 35°27′17.64″E
Country	Israel
District	Northern
Council	Upper Galilee
Affiliation	Kibbutz Movement
Founded	20 May 1949
Population (2018)[1]	410
Website	www.yiron.org.il

Yir'on (Hebrew: יִרְאוֹן‎) is a kibbutz in the Galilee Panhandle in northern Israel. Located adjacent to the Lebanese border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In 2018 it had a population of 410.[1]

History

The village was established on 20 May 1949 by former members of the Palmach's Yiftach Brigade and graduates of the Dror-HeHalutz youth movement on the site of the depopulated Palestinian village of Saliha.[2][3][4]

Ada Feinberg-Sireni, later a member of the Knesset, was amongst the founders. It was one of a series of villages established along the Lebanese border, with the intention of reinforcing the young states's borders. It was named after a biblical village of the Naftali tribe (Joshua 19:38), situated in this area.

Ceremony marking the establishment of Kibbutz Yiron. Saliha 1949

Former members of the Palmach planting a memorial grove at Yir'on. 1949

The kibbutz makes money from tourism, the farming of fruit, the growing of trees in a tree nursery and light industry (which included a zip factory). Among its tourist attractions is Lake Yir'on.[5]

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References

"Population in the Localities 2018" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 25 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 492. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. p. xxii, Settlement #161. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
Survey of Israel, Map sheet 'Alma, 1:20,000 series, editions of 1948 and 1958.
Carmeli, Gilad (September 1, 2017). נעים להכיר: האגמים של ישראל [Nice to Meet You: The Lakes of Israel]. Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved November 28, 2018.

External links

Kibbutz website (in Hebrew)

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[Israelpopulations-1] "Population in the Localities 2018" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 25 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.

[2] Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 492. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.

[3] Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. p. xxii, Settlement #161. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.

[4] Survey of Israel, Map sheet 'Alma, 1:20,000 series, editions of 1948 and 1958.

[5] Carmeli, Gilad (September 1, 2017). נעים להכיר: האגמים של ישראל [Nice to Meet You: The Lakes of Israel]. Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved November 28, 2018.