Ma'ayan Baruch

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| name = Ma'ayan Baruch

| hebname = מעיין ברוך

| foundation = 11 March 1947

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| district = north

| council = Upper Galilee

| affiliation = Kibbutz Movement

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Ma'ayan Baruch ({{langx|he|מעיין ברוך||Baruch Spring}}) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near the Lebanese border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Ma'yan Barukh}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}

History

The kibbutz was founded on 11 March 1947,{{cite web|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5084083q/f10.item|title=Une nouvelle colonie en Haute-Galilee|website=Hehaloutz|date=1 June 1947}} on the site of Hamara, a moshav established by Jewish farmers in 1919 but abandoned in 1920 due to financial hardship and security issues. It was named for Baruch (Bernard) Gordon, a South African Zionist.{{Cite web |title=Ma'yan Barukh {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/mayan-barukh |access-date=23 November 2023 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}} The founders were members of other kvutzot who had met in Kfar Giladi; members of the HaTenua HaMeuhedet youth movement, members of Habonim who immigrated to British Mandate of Palestine as Ma'apilim (illegal immigrants of Aliyah Bet), and members of a garin of pioneering soldiers from South Africa who fought in the British Army during World War II.

After the 1948 Palestine war, Ma'ayan Baruch took over part of the land belonging to the newly depopulated Palestinian village of al-Sanbariyya.{{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=494}}

During the Gaza war, northern Israeli border communities, including Ma'ayan Baruch, faced targeted attacks by Hezbollah and Palestinian factions based in Lebanon, and were evacuated.{{Cite web |last=Fabian |first=Emanuel |title=IDF to evacuate civilians from 28 communities along Lebanese border amid attacks |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-to-evacuate-civilians-from-28-communities-along-lebanese-border-amid-attacks/ |access-date=22 October 2023 |website=www.timesofisrael.com |language=en-US}}

Development projects

A new neighborhood in Ma'ayan Baruch was built to attract newcomers and bring money into the kibbutz coffers in the wake of the socio-economic problems that have affected many kibbutzim since the 1980s. The newcomers are from other kibbutzim and townships in the region, as well as other parts of the country.[http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/depression-in-margaliot-hope-in-ma-ayan-baruch-1.249578 Depression in Margaliot, Hope in Maayan Baruch] Haaretz, 11 July 2008

Landmarks

A museum which holds a collection of prehistoric artifacts found in the Hula Valley, the Upper Galilee Museum of Prehistory, also known as The Prehistoric Man Museum, is located on the kibbutz. The museum collection includes the skeleton of a prehistoric (Natufian) woman, approximately 50 years old, buried with her dog.James Serpell, [https://books.google.com/books?id=I8HU_3ycrrEC The domestic dog: its evolution, behaviour, and interactions with people], pp 10–12. Cambridge University Press, 1995.SJM Davis and FR Valla, Evidence for domestication of the dog 12,000 years ago in the Natufian of Israel, Nature 276, 608–610 (7 December 1978)

An Acheulian site was discovered at Ma‘ayan Baruch.{{Cite web |title=Volume 134 Year 2022 Ma'ayan Barukh |url=https://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_detail_eng.aspx?id=26212&mag_id=134#:~:text=The%20Acheulian%20site%20of%20Ma'ayan%20Barukh,%20traditionally%20designated%20Hamara,Israel-Lebanon%20border%20(Fig. |access-date=23 November 2023 |website=www.hadashot-esi.org.il}}

Historic images

File:מעין ברוך - ביום העליה למעין ברוך החברים מפרקים אתהחמרים מהמכוניות, הקמת הנקודה מתחילה.-JNF028682.jpeg|Ma’ayan Baruch, 11 March 1947

File:מעין ברוך - ביום העליה למעין ברוך הצריפים הראשונים כבר עומדים על תילם, העבודה נמשכת שוטרים אנגלים שו-JNF028674.jpeg|Early construction work on Ma'ayan Baruch on 1 March 1947. The 3 members of the British colonial Palestine Police Force pictured here include Amnon Assaf, founder of the Upper Galilee Museum of Prehistory.{{cite web |url=http://www.ugmp.co.il/eng/founder-biography/ |title=Founder Biography {{!}} english |website=www.ugmp.co.il |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414082042/http://ugmp.co.il/eng/founder-biography/ |archive-date=2014-04-14}}

File:Ma'ayan Baruch ii.jpg|Ma'ayan Baruch. First buildings 1947

File:מעין ברוך.-JNF028692.jpeg|Ma’ayan Baruch 1947