Be'erot Yitzhak
{{Short description|Kibbutz in central Israel}}
{{Infobox Kibbutz
| name = Be'erot Yitzhak
| hebname = בארות יצחק
| meaning = Yitzhak Wells
| image = 92194 beerot itzhak PikiWiki Israel.jpg
| foundation = 1943 (original location)
1952 (current location)
| founded_by = Czechoslovak and German Jewish refugees
| country = {{ISR}}
| district = center
| council = Hevel Modi'in
| popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}}
| population = {{Israel populations|Be'erot Yizhaq}}
| population_footnotes = {{Israel populations|reference}}
| affiliation = Religious Kibbutz Movement
| pushpin_map = Israel center ta#Israel |pushpin_mapsize=250
| coordinates = {{coord|32|2|34|N|34|54|32|E|display=inline,title}}
| website = {{URL|www.beerot.co.il}}
}}File:דרום - בארות יצחק - מראה לאחר מלחמת השחרור-JNF001325.jpeg
Be'erot Yitzhak ({{langx|he|בארות יצחק||Yitzhak Wells}}) is a religious kibbutz in central Israel. Located near Yehud, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Be'erot Yizhaq}}.{{Israel populations|reference}} Kibbutz Be'erot Yitzhak was originally located in the Negev, near Gaza. In 1952, after the kibbutz was destroyed and abandoned in the Battle of Be'erot Yitzhak, it was re-established in its current location south of Petah Tivka.[https://honorisraelsfallen.com/fallen/lemberger-rina/ Fallen Heros: Lemberger, Rina]
Etymology
The name is a reference to the patriarch Isaac's search for water in this area.{{cite book | title=Jewish Villages in Israel | author=Jewish National Fund | year=1949 | publisher=Hamadpis Liphshitz Press | location=Jerusalem | pages=15}} It also refers to rabbi Yitzhak Nissenbaum, one of the leaders of the Zionist Federation in Poland and a founder of the Mizrachi movement, who was murdered in the Warsaw Ghetto.Hareuveni, Imanuel (2010). [https://kotar.cet.ac.il/KotarApp/Viewer.aspx?nBookID=93576566#75.2363.6.default Eretz Israel Lexicon] (in Hebrew). Matach. p. 74.
History
=Ottoman era=
During the 18th and 19th centuries, the area was part of the Nahiyeh (sub-district) of Lod, which encompassed the area of the present-day city of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut in the south to the present-day city of El'ad in the north, and from the foothills in the east, through the Lod Valley to the outskirts of Jaffa in the west. This area was home to thousands of inhabitants in about 20 villages surrounded by tens of thousands of hectares of prime agricultural land.{{Cite journal |last=Marom |first=Roy |date=2022 |title=Lydda Sub-District: Lydda and its countryside during the Ottoman period |url=https://www.academia.edu/79946175 |journal=Diospolis - City of God: Journal of the History, Archaeology and Heritage of Lod |volume=8 |pages=103–136}}
=British Mandate era=
The kibbutz was first established in 1943 near Gaza on the site of what is today Kibbutz Alumim and Kibbutz Nahal Oz. The settlers were immigrants from Czechoslovakia and Germany, members of the HaPoel HaMizrachi movement. By 1947 it had a population of 150. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War the kibbutz took serious losses and was badly damaged by the Egyptian Army in the Battle of Be'erot Yitzhak, which included aerial bombardment. According to a report by the Jewish National Fund, the Egyptians were driven out and suffered hundreds of losses.
=State of Israel=
In 1949 an attempt was made to re-establish the collective on the remains of Wilhema. The kibbutz moved to its present site in central Israel in 1952.
Notable people
- Judith Weinstock (born 1940), author
- Meir Shamir (born 1951), businessman
- Shaul Gutman (born 1945), academic and former politician
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090204172609/http://beerot.co.il/ Official website]
{{Hevel Modi'in Regional Council}}
{{Jewish villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine war}}
{{Authority control}}
Category:Czech-Jewish culture in Israel
Category:German-Jewish culture in Israel
Category:Slovak-Jewish culture in Israel
Category:Religious Kibbutz Movement
Category:Populated places established in 1943
Category:Populated places established in 1952
Category:Jewish villages in Mandatory Palestine
Category:Jewish villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
Category:Populated places in Central District (Israel)