Beit Alfa
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Beit Alfa בֵּית אַלְפָא |
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Beit Alfa, 1930s
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 Beit Alfa
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| Coordinates: 32°30′58″N 35°25′49″E / 32.51611°N 35.43028°ECoordinates: 32°30′58″N 35°25′49″E / 32.51611°N 35.43028°E | |
| District | Northern |
| Council | Gilboa |
| Affiliation | Kibbutz Movement |
| Founded | 4 November 1922 |
| Founded by | Hashomer Hatzair |
| Population (2015) | 862 |
| Website | www.betalfa.org.il |
Beit Alfa (Hebrew: בֵּית אַלְפָא) (also Beit Alpha, Bet Alpha and Bet Alfa) is a kibbutz in the Northern District of Israel, founded in 1922 by settlers from Poland. Located at the base of the Gilboa ridge, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. In 2015 its population was 862.
The kibbutz was founded near an abandoned Arab village, Khirbet Bait Ilfa, at the bottom of the northern steep slopes of Mount Gilboa, on the eastern edge of the Harod Valley, between the Jezreel Valley and the Beit She'an Valley in the Lower Galilee. The Gilboa mountain range stretches to its west, with the closest peaks Har (mount) Barkan (497 m) and Har Gefet (318 m). The area north and east of the kibbutz is flat, but falls to the east towards the Jordan Rift Valley. To the north of the kibbutz flows the Harod stream, whose waters are used to fill numerous ponds. Adjacent to the kibbutz to the west is kibbutz Heftziba and Beit Alfa Synagogue National Park; Gan HaShlosha National Park is directly to its east; and kibbutz Ma'ale Gilboa sits on top of Mount Gilboa directly to the south. Other notable locations in the vicinity are kibbutzim Reshafim, Sde Nahum, and Nir David, Shita prison, and in the West Bank to the south, on the other side of the Israeli West Bank barrier, is the Palestinian village Faqqua.
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