HaOgen
{{Short description|Kibbutz in central Israel}}
{{Infobox Kibbutz
| name = HaOgen
| hebname = {{Script/Hebrew|הָעֹגֶן}}
| foundation = 28 August 1947
| image = PikiWiki Israel 11429 an anchor at the entrace to kibbutz haogen.jpg
| founded_by = Czechoslovak Jews
| district = center
| council = Hefer Valley
| affiliation = Kibbutz Movement
| popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}}
| population = {{Israel populations|Haogen}}
| population_footnotes={{Israel populations|reference}}
| pushpin_map=Israel center ta |pushpin_mapsize=250
| coordinates = {{coord|32|21|49|N|34|55|25|E|display=inline,title}}
| website = http://www.haogen.org.il/
}}
HaOgen ({{langx|he|העוגן, הָעֹגֶן||Anchor}}) is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek Hefer Regional Council and is affiliated with Hashomer Hatzair. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Haogen}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}
History
The community was established on 22 April 1939 by Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia. After spending eight years in a camp near Kfar Saba, they founded the kibbutz on 28 August 1947,[http://www.myhaogen.org.il/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=124&Itemid=93 First first and last last] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112132007/http://www.myhaogen.org.il/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=124&Itemid=93 |date=2017-11-12 }} HaOgen on land that had belonged to Wadi Qabbani.{{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=566}}
The Jewish National Fund provided 700 dunams of land for the kibbutz.{{Cite news|url=http://www.jpress.nli.org.il/Olive/APA/NLI_heb/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=AHR%2F1947%2F08%2F29&id=Ar00800&sk=6DA0F5B8|title=קמו שני ישובים חדשים|date=29 August 1947|work=Al HaMishmar|language=he}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qL1NH3gqm-wC&pg=PA52|title=Blossoms on the Olive Tree: Israeli and Palestinian Women Working for Peace|last=Powers|first=Janet M.|date=2006|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780275990015|language=en}}
Notable people
- Haya Kaspi
- Shraga Weil, painter
- Noam Yaacov (born 2004), Israeli–Danish player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
References
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{{Commons category}}
{{Hefer Valley Regional Council}}
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Category:Populated places established in 1947
Category:1947 establishments in Mandatory Palestine
Category:Populated places in Central District (Israel)