Ein Harod was a kibbutz in northern Israel near Mount Gilboa. Founded in 1921, it became the center of Mandatory Palestine's kibbutz movement, hosting the headquarters of the largest kibbutz organisation, HaKibbutz HaMeuhad.
Kibbutz Ein Harod, 1939
Ein Harod 1925
Ein Harod railway station 1925
Kibbutz Ein Harod 1926
A kibbutz is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism. In recent decades, some kibbutzim have been privatized and changes have been made in the communal lifestyle. A member of a kibbutz is called a kibbutznik, the suffix -nik being of Slavic origin.
Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk
Second Aliyah workers eating lunch in the fields of Kibbutz Migdal, 1912
Degania (later Degania Alef), sometimes considered the first kibbutz, in 1910
Kibbutz Lotan