Parod

The community was founded in 1949 by Jewish immigrants from Hungary, on land previously belonging to the depopulated Palestinian village of Farradiyya.{{Citation|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=450}}

The kibbutz was initially named "Gardosh" (from Hungarian "Gárdos") to honor József Gárdos, a Hashomer Hatzair activist and member of the founding nucleus, who was successful at organising the escape of fellow Jews from Nazi-controlled Europe throughout the war, survived the Holocaust but died of illness in 1945, soon after liberation.David Gur, [http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/wp-content/files_mf/6775.pdf Brothers for Resistance and Rescue: The Underground Zionist Youth Movement in Hungary during World War II], edited by Eli Netzer, The Society for the Research of the History of the Zionist Youth Movement in Hungary, 2009 (enlarged and revised edition) However, it was later renamed Parod after an ancient Jewish community mentioned once in the Babylonian Talmud, probably located at the site of Farradiyya.{{cite book |author= Uzi Leibner |title=Settlement and History in Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Galilee |pages= 116–121 |publisher= Mohr Siebeck |year= 2009}} The name, which means "separated," might also hint at the community's location on the border between the Upper and Lower Galilee.

Located to the west of Parod is the nearby, ancient hilltop ruin of Bersabe (Khirbet Abu esh-Shebaʿ), a once thriving city (later turned fortress) during the late Second Temple period.See p. 95 in: {{cite journal |last=Avi-Yonah |first=Michael |title=The Missing Fortress of Flavius Josephus |journal=Israel Exploration Journal |volume=3 |issue=2|pages=94–98 |jstor=27924515 |date=1953}}See p. 38 in: {{cite journal |last=Aviam |first=Mordechai |title=The Location and Function of Josephus' Fortifications in Galilee |journal=Cathedra: For the History of Eretz Israel and Its Yishuv |volume=28 |pages=33–46 |jstor=23398973 |date=1983}}Mordechai Aviam, The Great Revolt in Galilee (Exhibition Catalogue 28), Hecht Museum, University of Haifa: Haifa 2008, pp. 39–52 {{ISBN|965-7034-18-3}}Oren Tal, "Fortifications of Josephus in Beersheba of the Galilee", pub. in: Jerusalem and the Land of Israel: Sefer Arieh Kindler (ed. Amar & Zohar), Museum Eretz Israel: Ramat Gan 2000, pp. 155–163 (Hebrew) To its immediate south is the hilltop ruin of Kafr 'Inan (Kefar Hanniah), a cite once inhabited since Mishnaic times.

File:Ancient walled structure in Parod - Farradiyya.jpg|Remains of ancient Parod (Farradiyya)

File:Broken wall at Parod - Farradiyya.jpg|Broken wall

File:Ancient wall of Parod - Farradiyya.jpg|Ancient wall of Parod

File:Old wall in Farradiyya - Parod.jpg|Old wall

File:Village of Farradiyya.jpg|Farradiyya in Galilee

File:Walled structure in Farradiyya - Parod.jpg|Ancient walled structure

File:Parod - sign.jpg|Entrance to Parod

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