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Nahalal
| The first moshav ovedim (workers' settlement)
in Erez Israel. It was founded in 1921 in the
western Jezreel Valley by veteran pioneers of the
Second Aliyah, some of whom had been members of the
first kibbutz, Deganyah. The 80 settling families
each received 25 acres (100 dunams) of land, and then
proceeded to drain the malaria-infested swamps, which
had prevented two previous attempts at settlement.
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View of houses (Nov. 1936)
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View from the air of Nahallal
(1945) |
The village layout in Nahalal, devised by
architect Richard Kauffmann, became the pattern for many
of the moshavim established before 1948; it is based on
concentric circles, with the public buildings (school,
administrative and cultural offices, cooperative shops
and warehouses) in the center, the homesteads in the innermost
circle, the farm buildings in the next, and beyond those,
ever-widening circles of gardens and fields.
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| In 1929 a Girls' Agricultural Training Farm
was established at Nahalal by WIZO (Women's International
Zionist Organization), and in the 1940s it became a coeducational
farming school of the Youth Aliyah movement. Nahalal is
now one of the principal centers of the moshav movement,
with a population of about 1,300. In biblical times, Nahalal
was a town in the territory of the tribe of Zebulun, the
exact site of which is still in dispute |
Opening ceremony for the
agricultural school for girls at Nahallal
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Agricultural school for girls
at Nahallal |
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