HaHotrim Knowpia

HaHotrim
HaHotrim
	HaHotrim entrance sign
	HaHotrim
	Coordinates: 32°45′5″N 34°57′22″E / 32.75139°N 34.95611°E
Country	Israel
District	Haifa
Council	Hof HaCarmel
Affiliation	Kibbutz Movement
Founded	1941/1952
Founded by	Czechoslovak and German Jewish Refugees
Population (2022)	903
Website	http://www.hahotrim.com/

HaHotrim (Hebrew: הַחוֹתְרִים, lit. 'The Rowers') is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near Tirat Carmel, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 903.^[1]

History edit

The beginnings of the kibbutz were in December 1941, with the formation of a work company near Kiryat Haim by Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia and Germany.^[2] The kibbutz was established in 1952 on the land of a depopulated Palestinian village named al-Tira.^[3]^[4]

^ ^a ^b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
^ Founders of HaHotrim Archived 2017-09-02 at the Wayback Machine HaHotrim (in Hebrew)
^ Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, p. 198, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
^ Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. p. xx. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.

Official website (in Hebrew)
Kibbutz Hahotrim Collection (in Hebrew) on the Digital collections of Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library, University of Haifa