Tel Yitzhak

Tel Yitzhak תֵּל יִצְחָק‎
Tel Yitzhak
Coordinates: 32°15′8.64″N 34°52′8.76″E / 32.2524000°N 34.8691000°ECoordinates: 32°15′8.64″N 34°52′8.76″E / 32.2524000°N 34.8691000°E
District	Central
Council	Hof HaSharon
Affiliation	HaOved HaTzioni
Founded	1938
Founded by	Galician immigrants
Population (2015)[1]	1,023

Tel Yitzhak (Hebrew: תֵּל יִצְחָק‎, lit. Yitzhak Hill) is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain to the south-east of Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 1,023.

History

The kibbutz was established in 1938 by immigrants from Galicia as part of the tower and stockade settlement campaign. It was named after Yitzhak Steiger, a leader of HaNoar HaTzioni in Galicia.

Masua, a center for Holocaust research and commemoration, was established on the kibbutz.^[2]

Nature reserve

Southwest of the kibbutz is an 8-dunam nature reserve established in 1968^[3] to protect flora and fauna native to the Sharon plain.^[4] Flora includes Carob trees, Calicotome villosa, Thymelaea hirsuta, Prasium majus, Anagyris, and Lavender.

References

1. "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
2. Michael Berenbaum (1998). The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined, Michael Berenbaum. p. 797. ISBN 0-253-21529-3.
3. "List of National Parks and Nature Reserves" (PDF) (in Hebrew). Israel Nature and Parks Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 7, 2009. Retrieved 2010-09-27.
4. "Tel Yitzhak Nature Reserve" (in Hebrew). iNature.info. Retrieved 2010-10-13.