Kinneret Courtyard (Hatzar Kinneret)

Kinneret Courtyard is located at the entrance of the small town (Moshava) of Kinneret – one of the most important and interesting sites in the history of Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel. Having remained deserted for decades, the Courtyard resumed its operation at the initiative of the Society for Preservation of Sites, the Jordan Valley Regional Council and the Society for the Preservation of Kinneret Courtyard. The Courtyard was established in 1908 on the lands of Dleika and Umm Djuni with the goal of training Jewish agricultural workers for permanent settlement. Kinnert Yard was a sort of a laboratory, a melting pot in which the first buds of social ideas appeared, such as the Kvutza, Kibbutz and Moshav. Central figures in the history of the Jewish settlement lived and acted here: A.D. Gordon, Rachel the poetess, the agronomist Hana Meisel, Berl Katznelson, Zalman Shazar and others.

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