Gan Shmuel
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| Coordinates:32°27′13″N34°56′59″E / 32.45361°N 34.94972°E /32.45361; 34.94972 | |
| Country | Israel |
| District | Haifa |
| Council | Menashe Regional Council |
| Affiliation | Kibbutz Movement |
| Founded | 1913 |
| Founded by | Eastern EuropeanJews |
Area | 19,989dunams (19.989 km2; 7.718 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[1] | 1,188 |
| • Density | 59.43/km2 (153.9/sq mi) |
| Website | www.ganshmuel.org.il |
Gan Shmuel (Hebrew:גַּן שְׁמוּאֵל,lit. Shmuel's Garden) is akibbutz in northernIsrael. Located inHaifa District, east ofHadera, it falls under the jurisdiction ofMenashe Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,188.[1] The kibbutz was named after RabbiShmuel Mohilever.
During the late Ottoman period, in the 19th century, the area of Gan Shemuel were, according to historianRoy Marom, a part of a wooded, "sparsely populated coastal plain inhabited by Arabic-speaking highland peasants and nomads of Turkmen, Nubian, Egyptian and of Arabian-Peninsular descent". Between 1878 and 1880, Circassian refugees belonging to the Shapsegh, Abadzekh, and Kabardian clans established the village of Mez/Khirbat al-Sarkas, a "modest adobe hamlet stood next to a swamp on the southern edge of the oak woodlands".[2]
Specifically, the lands upon which Gan Shmuel was founded belonged to the Ottoman-era al-Dardara estate.[3] After purchasing al-Dardara in 1891, the founders of the town ofHadera planted Gan Shmuel, a grove ofetrogs (1895). The lands of Gan Shmuel were transferred to theJewish National Fund and a small group of pioneers took it upon themselves to tend to the orchards living in a multi-story house in 1913. The group was recognized as a kibbutz in 1921. According to acensus conducted in 1922 by theBritish Mandate authorities, Gan Shmuel had a population of 48 Jews.[4] The first stable group formed in 1923 and its members were considered the founders of Gan Shmuel. The kibbutz buildings were designed byArieh Sharon in keeping with the principles ofBauhaus architecture.[5]
The kibbutz is the owner (43%) of the publicly traded beverage company Gan Shmuel Foods Ltd. Established in 1941, the company exports products to 35 countries throughout Europe and the Far East and is the largest exporter of processed foods in Israel. Since Gan Shmuel Foods' merger with Ganir Ltd. in 2007, Gan Shmuel Group owns the Primor juice brand.[6][7][8][9]
The kibbutz is host to the Hapoel Gan Shmuel Menashe basketball team, which previously played in thetop division of Israeli basketball.
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