Amikam
{{Infobox Israel village
| name = Amikam
|image=Amikam2011-4.jpg
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|hebname={{Script/Hebrew|עַמִּיקָם}}
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| founded = 1950
| founded_by = Immigrants from China
| country ={{ISR}}
| district = haifa
| council = Alona
| affiliation = Mishkei Herut Beitar
| population = {{Israel populations|Ammiqam}}
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Amikam ({{langx|he|עַמִּיקָם}}) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located near Zikhron Ya'akov, it falls under the jurisdiction of Alona Regional Council, whose headquarters are located in the moshav. In {{Israel populations|Year}}, it had a population of {{Israel populations|Ammiqam}}.{{Israel populations|reference}} West of the moshav is the Alona Park with the archaeological site Mey Kedem near the coastal city of Caesarea.{{Cite book
| publisher = Mapa Publishing
| isbn = 965-7184-34-7
| pages = 426–427
|editor-first=Yuval |editor-last=El'azari
| title = Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel
| location = Tel-Aviv
| year = 2005
|language=he}}
History
The moshav was established in 1950 by Jewish refugees from Harbin, Manchuria and Shanghai, China, who had fled the Chinese Civil War. The land had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Sabbarin.{{cite book|title=All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_By7AAAAIAAJ |first1=Walid|last1=Khalidi|author-link=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies|isbn=0-88728-224-5|page=187}}
The founders were later joined by Jews from the Cyprus concentration camps, and followed by Yemenite Jews. In 1956, a group of Polish Jewish immigrants settled on the moshav. Some of the families engage in fruit farming, raising peaches, plums, nectarines and loquats.
Children attend the local Tali Alona elementary school.{{Cite web |url=http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Israel/Partnerships/Regions/Hadera/About+Us/aboutAlona.htm |title=Alona region |access-date=2012-02-05 |archive-date=2020-03-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200323172214/http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Israel/Partnerships/Regions/Hadera/About+Us/aboutAlona.htm |url-status=dead }}
Agriculture
A rare variety of peach was grown on Moshav Amikam and named for the moshav. Pits from this variety were found on Masada. Now the one remaining tree is in Kfar Kara.{{cite news |last=Shapira |first=Ran |date=November 30, 2011 |title=What peach did they dare to eat at Masada? |url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.4934660 |newspaper=Haaretz |access-date=April 23, 2019}}
Notable residents
- Yoav Gallant (born 1958), Israeli Minister of Defense and former army general
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{Commons category|Amikam}}
- [https://www.jpost.com/Travel/Around-Israel/Weekend-Walk-Moshav-Amikam Weekend Walk: Moshav Amikam]{{cite news |last=Cohen |first=Yoni |title=Weekend Walk: Moshav Amikam |url=https://www.jpost.com/Travel/Around-Israel/Weekend-Walk-Moshav-Amikam |date=April 22, 2012 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=April 23, 2019}}
- [https://meykedem.co.il/english/ Mey Kedem], archaeological site centered on a Roman water tunnel
{{Alona Regional Council}}
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Category:Populated places established in 1950
Category:Populated places in Haifa District
Category:Chinese diaspora in Israel
Category:Chinese-Jewish diaspora
Category:Polish-Jewish culture in Israel