Nahsholim
Nahsholim
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  Nahsholim Location within Haifa region of Israel  Nahsholim Location within Israel | |
| Coordinates: 32°36′51″N 34°55′17″E / 32.61417°N 34.92139°E | |
| Country |  Israel |
| District | Haifa |
| Subdistrict | Hadera |
| Council | Hof HaCarmel |
| Affiliation | Kibbutz Movement |
| Founded | June 1948 |
| Founded by | Turkish Jewish immigrants and Israeli residents |
| Population (2024)[1] | 717 |
Nahsholim (Hebrew: נַחְשׁוֹלִים, lit. 'Tidal waves') is a kibbutz and beach resort in northern Israel. Located near Zikhron Ya'akov, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 717.[1]
History
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The kibbutz was established in June 1948 by a group of idealistic Zionists who settled at the site of the former Palestinian village of al-Tantura, emptied during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war[2] after a battle, followed by a massacre of the Palestinians living there; the victims were put in mass graves.[3][4][5] According to Forensic Architecture, the Israeli settlement of Nahsholim was established by migrants from Romania and Turkey.[6] The earliest Israeli residents were Palmach members, but were soon joined by Holocaust survivors from Poland.[2] In 1949 the residents wrote:
- [W]e settled in Tantura and did not have to work much in order to start [a new life], only to use what existed here already... The beginning was the day when our group "Nahsholim” came and settled on the lands of the abandoned village Tantura and in its houses. The village was deserted. The property was abundant, and it was the time of the year to gather the crops. And these crops—listen, I shall not exaggerate if I say that we were somewhat dazed—the soil was fertile, the conditions comfortable, the sea and the beach incomparable, and overall [there were] limitless possibilities. We saw our dream coming true...[2]
The spacious former home of the mukhtar of Tantura served as the dining room.[2] Other houses served as residences or as cowsheds, chicken coops or stables, workshops and sheds.[2] Over the next decade, most of the houses of Tantura were destroyed and new buildings constructed on the northern side.[2] The residents had wished to establish the kibbutz as a fishing village on El Burj, the site of ancient Dor, but gave up after a long fight with the Israeli Department of Antiquities.[2]
A car park contains a mass grave from the 1948 Tantura massacre.[7]
Economy
[edit]A glass bottle factory founded by Baron Rothschild in 1891 is located in Nahsholim.[8] Today it is an archaeological museum with displays of objects found in the excavations at Tel Dor since 1980. In 2015, archaeologists examining remains of a shipwreck discovered in 1976 off Dor Beach, near Zichron Yaakov, announced that it was probably a ship sent by Rothschild with supplies for the bottle factory.[9] Also exhibited in the museum are a large assortment of anchors, jars and navigational tools retrieved by the center's diving team. Cannons, swords, guns and ammunition have been found underwater, dating from the retreat of Napoleon’s armade in 1799.
The kibbutz grows bananas, avocado and cotton, and raises fish in ponds. It also operates a plastics factory that manufactures irrigation equipment.[10]
Notable residents
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Confino, Alon (2015). "The warm sand of the coast of Tantura: History and Memory in Israel after 1948". History & Memory. 27: 43–82. doi:10.2979/histmemo.27.1.43.
- ↑ McKernan, Bethan (2023-05-25). "UK study of 1948 Israeli massacre of Palestinian village reveals mass grave sites". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2026-04-23.
- ↑ "Palestinians call for probe into Israeli massacres in Tantura". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2026-04-23.
- ↑ Kingsley, Patrick (2022-05-11). "Old Palestinian Wound Resurfaces at Israeli Resort". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-04-23.
- ↑ Forensic Architecture (24 May 2023). "Executions and Mass Graves in Tantura, 23 May 1948". Retrieved 2026-08-10.
- ↑ Adam Raz (20 January 2022). "There's a Mass Palestinian Grave at a Popular Israeli Beach, Veterans Confess". Haaretz.
- ↑ HaMizgaga Museum Archived 2008-06-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Shipwreck off Israel's coast, long unidentified, linked to early Zionist". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. August 15, 2015. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
- ↑ Rosovsky, Nina (May 20, 1990). "Israel's Kibbutz Guesthouses". The New York Times. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
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