Tel Yitzhak

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 2019 it had a population of 1,021.[1]

Tel Yitzhak

תֵּל יִצְחָק‎
Tel Yitzhak
Coordinates: 32°15′8.64″N 34°52′8.76″E
CountryIsrael
DistrictCentral
CouncilHof HaSharon
AffiliationHaOved HaTzioni
Founded1938
Founded byGalician immigrants
Population
 (2019)[1]
1,021

History

The kibbutz was established in 1938 by General Zionist immigrants[2] from Galicia as part of the tower and stockade settlement campaign. It was named after Yitzhak Steiger, a leader of HaNoar HaTzioni in Galicia.

Haaretz newspaper press, Tel Yitzhak

Masua, a center for Holocaust research and commemoration, was established on the kibbutz.[3]

Nature reserve

Southwest of the kibbutz is an 8-dunam nature reserve established in 1968[4] to protect flora and fauna native to the Sharon plain.[5] Flora includes Ceratonia siliqua, Calicotome villosa, Thymelaea hirsuta, Prasium majus, Anagyris, and Lavandula stoechas.

Historic images
  • Tel Yitzhak construction of watchtower 1938
  • Tel Yitzhak construction of wall, July 1938
  • Tel Yitzhak 1939
  • Tel Yitzhak 1944 1:20,000 (bottom right quadrant:Tel Yits-haq)

References
  1. "Population in the Localities 2019" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  2. Dov Levin (2000). The Litvaks: A Short History of the Jews in Lithuania. Yad Vashem Jerusalem. p. 162. ISBN 9781571812643.
  3. Berenbaum, Michael; Peck, Abraham J., eds. (2002). The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 797. ISBN 0-253-21529-3.
  4. "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.
  5. "Tel Yitzhak Nature Reserve" (in Hebrew). iNature.info. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
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