HaGoshrim הגושרים | |
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  HaGoshrim  HaGoshrim | |
| Coordinates:33°13′15″N35°37′25″E / 33.22083°N 35.62361°E /33.22083; 35.62361 | |
| Country | Israel |
| District | Northern |
| Council | Upper Galilee |
| Affiliation | Kibbutz Movement |
| Founded | 1948 |
| Founded by | Turkish Jews |
| Population (2022)[1] | 1,081 |
| Website | www.hagoshrim.co.il |
HaGoshrim (Hebrew:הַגּוֹשְׁרִים,lit. 'The Bridge Builders') is akibbutz in theGalilee Panhandle in northernIsrael, 5 km (3 miles) east ofKiryat Shmona. The kibbutz is adjacent to theHurshat Tal National Park and bisected by tributaries of theJordan River, theSnir (Hatsbani), Koren, itself a tributary of theDan and Tal.[2] In 2022 it had a population of 1,081.[1]
Kibbutz HaGoshrim was founded in 1948 mostly byJewish immigrants fromTurkey. The kibbutz was established partly on the lands of the formerPalestinian village ofal-Khisas, which wasdepopulated and destroyed during the1948 Palestine war.[3][4] The kibbutz opened a hotel in the manor house of Emir Faour, chief of the al-Fadel tribe, for whom the villagers worked as tenant farmers.[5]
The chief economic branches are agriculture and tourism. The kibbutz also owns Mepro, which manufactures carpenters' levels and military optics, and theEpilady company, established in 1986.[6] Epilady is a hand-held device developed by two Israeli engineers that revolutionized hair removal.[7]
Excavations at the Neolithic site of Hagoshrim in 2003 yielded a large assemblage of skeletal fragments, mainly of cattle and pigs, providing evidence of the domestication of these taxa in the southern Levant.[8]
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