Nahsholim נַחְשׁוֹלִים | |
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| Coordinates:32°36′51″N34°55′17″E / 32.61417°N 34.92139°E /32.61417; 34.92139 | |
| Country | Israel |
| District | Haifa |
| Council | Hof HaCarmel |
| Affiliation | Kibbutz Movement |
| Founded | June 1948 |
| Founded by | Turkish Jewish immigrants andIsraeli residents |
| Population (2022)[1] | 704 |
Nahsholim (Hebrew:נַחְשׁוֹלִים,lit. 'Tidal waves') is akibbutz and beach resort in northernIsrael. Located nearZikhron Ya'akov, it falls under the jurisdiction ofHof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 704.[1]
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The kibbutz was established in June 1948 by a group of idealistic Zionists who settled in thePalestinian village ofal-Tantura a few weeks after the previous residents wereexpelled after amassacre by Jewish forces.[2] The earliest residents werePalmach members, but were soon joined by Holocaust survivors from Poland.[2] In 1949 the residents wrote:
The spacious former home of themukhtar of Tantura served as the dining room.[2] Other houses served as residences or as cowsheds, chicken coops or stables, workshops and sheds.[2] Over the next decade, most of the houses of Tantura were destroyed and new buildings constructed on the northern side.[2] The residents had wished to establish the kibbutz as a fishing village onEl Burj, the site of ancientDor, but gave up after a long fight with the Israeli Department of Antiquities.[2] Today, according to a report in the newspaperHaaretz, a car park for the beaches of Nahsholim and neighboringDor contains a mass grave from the 1948Tantura massacre.[3]
A glass bottle factory founded byBaron Rothschild in 1891 is located in Nahsholim.[4] Today it is an archaeological museum with displays of objects found in the excavations atTel Dor since 1980. In 2015, archaeologists examining remains of a shipwreck discovered in 1976 off Dor Beach, nearZichron Yaakov, announced that it was probably a ship sent by Rothschild with supplies for the bottle factory.[5] Also exhibited in the museum are a large assortment of anchors, jars and navigational tools retrieved by the center's diving team. Cannons, swords, guns and ammunition have been found underwater, dating from the retreat ofNapoleon’s armade in 1799.
The kibbutz grows bananas, avocado and cotton, and raises fish in ponds. It also operates a plastics factory that manufactures irrigation equipment.[6]
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