LAHAVOT HA-BASHAN

LAHAVOT HA-BASHAN
LAHAVOT HA-BASHAN (Heb. לַהֲבוֹת הַבָּשָׁן, "Flames of the Bashan"), kibbutz in northern Israel, on the eastern rim of the Ḥuleh Valley , affiliated with Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Arẓi Ha-Shomer ha-Ẓa'ir. It was founded in 1945 by a group of youth aliyah graduates from Germany and Israeli-born youth, as one of the settlements in the defense chain at the foot of the golan Heights. During Israel's war of independence (1948) the kibbutz was exposed to a heavy attack from Syrian forces. Farming at Lahavot ha-Bashan was based on field and fodder crops, fruit orchards, dairy cattle, and carp ponds. The kibbutz had a factory specializing in spraying and fire-extinguishing apparatus. In 2002 its population was 423. (Efraim Orni)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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