Gan Shmuel

Coordinates: 32°27′13″N 34°56′59″E / 32.45361°N 34.94972°E / 32.45361; 34.94972
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Gan Shmuel
גַּן שְׁמוּאֵל‎
Gan Shmuel is located in Haifa region of Israel
Gan Shmuel
Gan Shmuel
Gan Shmuel is located in Israel
Gan Shmuel
Gan Shmuel
Coordinates: 32°27′13″N 34°56′59″E / 32.45361°N 34.94972°E / 32.45361; 34.94972
CountryIsrael
DistrictHaifa
CouncilMenashe Regional Council
AffiliationKibbutz Movement
Founded1913
Founded byEastern European Jews
Area
19,989 dunams (19.989 km2 or 7.718 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)[1]
964
 • Density48/km2 (120/sq mi)
Websitewww.ganshmuel.org.il

Gan Shmuel (Hebrew: גַּן שְׁמוּאֵל, lit. Shmuel's Garden) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in Haifa District, east of Hadera, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 964.[1] The kibbutz was named after Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever.

History[edit]

During the late Ottoman period, in the 19th century, the area of Gan Shemuel were, according to historian Roy Marom, a part of a wooded, "sparsely populated coastal plain inhabited by Arabic-speaking highland peasants and nomads of Turkmen, Nubian, Egyptian and of Arabian-Peninsular descent". Between 1878 and 1880, Circassian refugees belonging to the Shapsegh, Abadzekh, and Kabardian clans established the village of Mez/Khirbat al-Sarkas, a "modest adobe hamlet stood next to a swamp on the southern edge of the oak woodlands".[2]

Specifically, the lands upon which Gan Shmuel was founded belonged to the Ottoman-era al-Dardara estate.[3] After purchasing al-Dardara in 1891, the founders of the town of Hadera planted Gan Shmuel, a grove of etrogs (1895). The lands of Gan Shmuel were transferred to the Jewish National Fund and a small group of pioneers took it upon themselves to tend to the orchards living in a multi-story house in 1913. The group was recognized as a kibbutz in 1921. According to a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, Gan Shmuel had a population of 48 Jews.[4] The first stable group formed in 1923 and its members were considered the founders of Gan Shmuel. The kibbutz buildings were designed by Arieh Sharon in keeping with the principles of Bauhaus architecture.[5]

Industry[edit]

The kibbutz is the owner (43%) of the publicly traded beverage company Gan Shmuel Foods Ltd. Established in 1941, the company exports products to 35 countries throughout Europe and the Far East and is the largest exporter of processed foods in Israel. Since Gan Shmuel Foods' merger with Ganir Ltd. in 2007, Gan Shmuel Group owns the Primor juice brand.[6][7][8][9]

Sports[edit]

The kibbutz is host to the Hapoel Gan Shmuel Menashe basketball team, which previously played in the top division of Israeli basketball.

Notable people[edit]

Gallery[edit]

  • Gan Shmuel (1927)
    Gan Shmuel (1927)
  • Gan Shmuel (1945)
    Gan Shmuel (1945)
  • Aerial view of Gan Shmuel (c. 2008)
    Aerial view of Gan Shmuel (c. 2008)
  • Gan Shmuel juice factory, (c. 1959)
    Gan Shmuel juice factory, (c. 1959)
  • Rabbis from Jerusalem supervise the harvest of wheat in Kibbutz Gan Shmuel, in order to make sure that the wheat is kosher for making Shmurah matzah (1930–1938)
    Rabbis from Jerusalem supervise the harvest of wheat in Kibbutz Gan Shmuel, in order to make sure that the wheat is kosher for making Shmurah matzah
    (1930–1938)
  • Snow event in Gan Shmuel (1950)
    Snow event in Gan Shmuel (1950)

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  2. ^ Marom, Roy (2023-03-09). "Hadera: transnational migrations from Eastern Europe to Ottoman Palestine and the glocal origins of the Zionist-Arab conflict". Middle Eastern Studies: 3–4. doi:10.1080/00263206.2023.2183499. ISSN 0026-3206. S2CID 257443159.
  3. ^ Marom, Roy (2021-06-09). "The Abu Hameds of Mulabbis: an oral history of a Palestinian village depopulated in the Late Ottoman period". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 50 (48): 87–106. doi:10.1080/13530194.2021.1934817. ISSN 1353-0194. S2CID 236222143.
  4. ^ "Palestine Census ( 1922)". Retrieved October 23, 2019 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ Zach, Elizabeth (March 15, 2012). "The Influence of Bauhaus on Architecture in Early Palestine and Israel". The New York Times. Retrieved October 23, 2019 – via NYTimes.com.
  6. ^ Ovadia, Avishay; Hadass, Guy (23 April 2003). "Gan Shmuel Foods works in Europe". Globes. Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  7. ^ Ripard, Joanna (11 July 2010). "The kibbutz life of an Israeli executive". The Times of Malta. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  8. ^ "Gan Shmuel Group" (PDF). Israel Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  9. ^ Dovrat-Meseritz, Adi (3 September 2008). "Is Israel ready for vegetable juice?". Haaretz. Retrieved 26 March 2012.

External links[edit]

Media related to Gan-Shmuel at Wikimedia Commons

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