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Lohamey HaGeta'ot (Hebrew: לוחמי הגטאות, lit. The Ghetto Fighters) is a kibbutz in the western Galilee region of Israel. It has around 300 members and falls under the jurisdiction of Matte Asher Regional Council. Its name commemorates the Jews who fought back against Nazism, and the kibbutz is home to the Ghetto Fighters' House.
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The kibbutz was founded in 1949 on the coastal highway between Acre and Nahariya, on the site of the former Arab village of Al-Sumayriyya.[1] Its founding members include surviving fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (notably Icchak Cukierman, ŻOB deputy commander), as well as former Jewish partisans and other Holocaust survivors.
In the mid-1980s the kibbutz acquired the Tivall vegetarian food products factory, which has become a mainstay of its income. Other branches include a large dairy and agriculture. The kibbutz is currently undergoing a process of privatization.
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