Givat HaShlosha

Givat HaShlosha גִּבְעַת הַשְּׁלֹשָׁה
Givat HaShlosha
Coordinates: 32°5′53.88″N 34°55′15.59″E / 32.0983000°N 34.9209972°E / 32.0983000; 34.9209972Coordinates: 32°5′53.88″N 34°55′15.59″E / 32.0983000°N 34.9209972°E / 32.0983000; 34.9209972
District	Central
Region	Sharon plain
Affiliation	Kibbutz Movement
Founded	May 1, 1925
Founded by	Polish HeHalutz members
Population (2010)	761[1]

Givat HaShlosha (Hebrew: גִּבְעַת הַשְּׁלֹשָׁה, lit. Hill of the three) is a kibbutz in central Israel, about 4 km east of Petah Tikva, near the Yarkon river.

A member of the Kibbutz Movement, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom Hasharon Regional Council. The kibbutz is named for the three workers from Petah Tikva who were accused of espionage during World War I (Palestine was then under the rule of the Ottoman Empire), and were sent to a prison in Damascus. They were tortured and died in 1916.

History

Historic dining room, c 1939

The kibbutz was founded on May 1, 1925, by a group from the Zionist pioneering HeHalutz movement originating in the city of Klesów in Poland (now Klesiv, Ukraine. Its original location was west of Petah Tikva, near the intersection of Arlozorov and Tzahal streets in Petah Tikva today. Near the original kibbutz, there was a regional agricultural secondary school named after Rosa Cohen, mother of Yitzhak Rabin, which is now the urban farm on Kaplan Street, and a seminar for teacher training. Today, a geriatric institution belonging to Tel Aviv operates in the area. One of the largest dining halls in pre-State Israel operated in the kibbutz. It was managed by Aryeh Sharon, who planned other buildings in the kibbutz.

In the era before the founding of the state of Israel, Givat HaShlosha was one of the kibbutzim where the Palmach trained, and it had weapons caches for the Haganah. Subsequently it was attacked by the British Army during the Operation Agatha. When Holocaust survivors arrived in Israel, the kibbutz absorbed many young people.

In 1952 the kibbutz was one of those that split as part of the ideological schism of the kibbutz movement. In 1953 it moved to its present location, near its agricultural lands. The members of the kibbutz who transferred to the Union of Kibbutzim after the schism founded Kibbutz Einat near Rosh HaAyin.

Economy

In 1968, Givat Hashlosha had 510 inhabitants.^[2] Its farming is highly intensive, with citrus fruits and other crops, dairy farming and cattle. The kibbutz has a shoe factory and a plant for building materials.^[2]

Notable residents

• Rehavam Ze'evi (1926–2001), general and politician
• Uri Lifschitz

References

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Гиват ха-Шлоша