Sde Nehemia
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| Coordinates:33°11′12″N35°37′21″E / 33.18667°N 35.62250°E /33.18667; 35.62250 | |
| Country | Israel |
| District | Northern |
| Council | Upper Galilee |
| Affiliation | Kibbutz Movement |
| Founded | 19 December 1940 |
| Founded by | Austrian,Dutch andCzechoslovak Jews |
| Population (2023)[1] | 1,157 |
Sde Nehemia (Hebrew:שדה נחמיה,lit. 'Nehemia's Field') is akibbutz in northernIsrael. Located in theUpper Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction ofUpper Galilee Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,157.[1]
TheBanias andHasbani Rivers converge on the grounds of the kibbutz.
Sde Nehemia was founded on 19 December 1940 byimmigrants fromAustria, theNetherlands andCzechoslovakia, on land bought from theArab village ofal-Dawwara. It was originally known as Kvutzat Huliot, but later renamed after Nehemia de Lieme, a Dutch banker and Zionist activist who served as head of theJewish National Fund.[2]
In the early days of the kibbutz, the pioneers lived in tents in the midst of malaria-infested swampland. One of them, Yehuda Abas, a physician, distributed anti-malarial pills free of charge to the local Arab population but discovered they were being cut into four and sold for large sums of money to Arabs fromSyria andLebanon. Abas's solution was to introduce injections.[3]
Rafael Reiss from Sde Nehemia was one of seven parachutists sent into Nazi-occupied Europe in 1944. He was captured by the Nazis and executed on 20 November 1944.[4]
In May, 1948, the kibbutz requested, "somewhat shamefacedly", 1,700 dunams of land from the newlydepopulatedPalestinian village ofAl-'Abisiyya.[5]
Located in the fertileHula Valley between theGolan Heights andLebanon, agriculture is a significant source of income. The kibbutz also owns a plastics factory, Huliot, a leading manufacturer of pipe systems and plastic products. Huliot specializes in flow products for water supply, drainage, sewage andgreywater recycling which it sells on the local and global markets. The factory was established in 1947.[6]
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