Nahalal

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Nahalal
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Nahalal
Coordinates: 32°41′24″N35°11′48″E / 32.69000°N 35.19667°E / 32.69000; 35.19667
CountryFlag of Israel.svg  Israel
District Northern
Council Jezreel Valley
Affiliation Moshavim Movement
Founded11 September 1921
Founded byJews from Eastern Europe
Population
 (2022) [1]
1,351

Nahalal (Hebrew : נַהֲלָל) is a moshav in northern Israel. Covering 8.5 square kilometers (3.3 sq mi), it falls under the jurisdiction of the Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 1,351. [1]

Contents

Nahalal is best known for its general layout, as designed by Richard Kauffmann: slightly oval round, similar to a spoke wheel, with its public buildings at the "hub" and individual plots of agricultural land radiating from it like spokes with symmetrically placed roads creating eight equal sectors, an inner ring of residential buildings, and an outer ring road. [2]

In the Hebrew Bible

Nahalal was a Levitical city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. According to the Book of Joshua, Nahalal, also transliterated Nahallal, was located in the territory of the tribe of Zebulun (Joshua 19:15), and given to the Merarite division of the Levite tribe (Joshua 21:34–35). In the Book of Judges it is referred to as Nahalol (Judges 1:30).

History

Antiquity

Archaeological findings in the area suggest human settlement there dates to the Bronze Age, and continued into the Iron Age, Persian era, Hellenistic period, Roman era, and Byzantine era. Among the artifacts found was an ancient Jewish inscription of the word "Sabbath" on a rock, from Nahalal or nearby Shimron. [3]

Ottoman Empire: Ma'alul

An Arab village in the area, Ma'alul, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. It was identified with the biblical Nahalal by Rabbi Joseph Schwarz in 1850.[ citation needed ]

20th century

Arab village of Ma'alul

By the 20th century, Ma'alul's inhabitants were tenants of the Sursuq family of Beirut, absentee landlords who had acquired the land earlier. In 1921, they sold all but 2,000 dunams of Ma'alul's land to the Zionist Palestine Land Development Company. [4]

Moshav Nahalal

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Nahalal in 1932
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Nahalal school 1944
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Nahalal 1945
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Nahalal 1946

Nahalal was the first moshav ovdim (workers' cooperative agricultural settlement) in Mandatory Palestine. [5] Its founders immigrated to Palestine from Eastern Europe as part of the Second and Third Aliyah between 1904 and 1914, at the end of Ottoman rule.

Some of them had been members of the first kibbutz, Degania. After working in farming communities for a decade, they dreamt of establishing an income-sharing farming community similar to a kibbutz, but they wanted to maintain the nuclear family and household structure (kibbutzim had communal dining, and children were kept in separate housing, where they also slept). [6]

The founders first arrived to the lands given to them by the Jewish National Fund on September 11, 1921. They first saw the allotted land from the hill, noticing that small rivulets transformed the plain into marshes that attracted malaria-spreading anopheles mosquitoes. Heeding the warnings of experts, such as Dr. Hillel Yaffe, the Jewish pioneers temporarily settled on a nearby hill, near the Arab village of Ma'lul. Later they came down from the hill and divided the land, initially into 80 equal parcels, 75 to the members and 5 to Nahalal agricultural school.[ citation needed ][ dubious discuss ]

The physical layout of Nahalal, devised by architect Richard Kauffmann in 1921, [7] became the pattern for many moshavim established before 1948.[ citation needed ] It is based on concentric circles, with the public buildings (school, administration offices, services, and warehouses) in the centre, the homes of non-farming families (craftsmen, teachers, etc.) around the centre, then a ring street with the farmers' homesteads bordering on it on the outside, [2] and beyond those, ever-widening circles of gardens and fields.[ citation needed ] The equal parcelling of the land became the trademark geometric shape of Nahalal.[ citation needed ]

According to a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, Nahalal had a population of 437 Jews. [8]

On 22 December 1932, a member of Nahalal, Yosef Ya'akobi, and his 9-year-old son David [9] were killed when a bomb was thrown into their home. Halim Basta, a Coptic policeman for the Mandatory government solved the crime the following year, identifying followers of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam as the murderers. [10] In 1937, Basta was himself murdered.

Education

In 1929, a Girls' Agricultural Training Farm was established at Nahalal by Hana Meisel of the Women's International Zionist Organization. In the 1940s it became a co-educational farming school of the Youth Aliyah movement.

Notable residents

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Ruth Westheimer
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Ilan Ramon's grave in Nahalal

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References

  1. 1 2 "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  2. 1 2 Richard Kauffmann, Die Bebauungsplaene der Kleinsiedlungen Kfar-Nahalal und Kfar-Jecheskiel ('The construction plans for the agricultural small housing estates Kfar Nahalal and Kfar Jecheskiel'), published by the Department for Agricultural Colonization of the Zionist Executive, Jerusalem (1923), in German.
  3. Mordechai Aviam (2011). "The Sabbath Boundary at Timrat Archived 2014-09-07 at the Wayback Machine ". In Eretz Magazine. A Hebrew version of the article is also available.
  4. a total of 16,000 dunams, with 90 families, according to List of villages sold by Sursocks and their partners to the Zionists since British occupation of Palestine, evidence to the Shaw Commission, 1930
  5. Bernard Reich and David H. Goldberg (2008). Historical Dictionary of Israel (2 ed.). Scarecrow Press. p.  329.
  6. "Moshav Nahalal Is Founded - Central for Israel Education". 11 September 2022.
  7. "Degania & Nahalal". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. 30 June 2000. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  8. "Palestine Census ( 1922)" via Internet Archive.
  9. Sanagan, Mark (2013). "Teacher, Preacher, soldier, Martyr: Rethinking 'Izz al-Din al-Qassam". Die Welt des Islams . 53 (3–4): 315–352. doi:10.1163/15685152-5334p0002.[ permanent dead link ] p.342
  10. Hillel Cohen, Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1929 Brandeis University Press 2015 ISBN   978-1-611-68811-5 p.30.

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