Yonatan (moshav)
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Yonatan (Hebrew: יונתן) is a moshav located in the central Golan Heights, under the administration of Israel. The moshav is run by the Mizrahi Workers movement, and is under the jurisdiction of Golan Regional Council. Around 350 people live there.
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[edit] Name
The community is named after Yonatan Rosenman, who was killed while operating a tank during the Yom Kippur War.
[edit] History
The community was founded by Yitzhak Rabin, who was then Prime Minister of Israel, together with four other communities. The original founding nucleus included people from the Nahal of Yonatan Rosenman. Immediately after the Yom Kippur War the founders decided to name a community after him. In 1975 the community was started temporarily in the area of the kibbutz Merom Golan, and about a year later it moved to Tel Farj. Only in 1978 did it move to its present-day location.
[edit] Geography
The present-day location is 570 meters above sea level, near Gilgal Refaim and some springs and tributaries. It is about 7 km west of the Israel-Syria border, and a few km southwest of Keshet, which is also a moshav shitufi of the Mizrahi Workers movement.
[edit] Population
Residents of the community are members of Bnei Akiva. About 350 people live there, including 73 families and 210 children as of 2007.
[edit] Economy
The economy is based on plantings of apples and plums and on growing grapes for wine. The community also has plantings of mango and passiflora in the Beit Tzida Valley, and plantings of cotton, corn and tomatoes, wheat, and bequia. The community has areas for pasture, chicken coops, and the second-largest cow stable in Israel as of 2007, whose milk is processed and sold by Tnuva. The community also partners with the resort village Kinar on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.
[edit] Further reading (Hebrew)
- מיכה לבנה, גולן - 20 שנה ועוד 2000, משרד הביטחון הוצאה לאור, 1993.
[edit] External links
- Official website (Hebrew)
- Yonatan Golan Heights (Hebrew)
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