Kiryat Anavim
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Kiryat Anavim קִרְיַת עֲנָבִים |
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First kibbutz building - a dairy barn, built in 1920
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 Kiryat Anavim
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| Coordinates: 31°48′38.52″N 35°7′11.64″E / 31.8107000°N 35.1199000°ECoordinates: 31°48′38.52″N 35°7′11.64″E / 31.8107000°N 35.1199000°E | |
| District | Jerusalem |
| Council | Mateh Yehuda |
| Affiliation | Kibbutz Movement |
| Founded | 1920 |
| Founded by | Third Aliyah immigrants |
| Population (2015) | 466 |
| Website | kiryatanavim.com |
Kiryat Anavim (Hebrew: קִרְיַת עֲנָבִים, lit. City of Grapes) is a kibbutz in the Judean Hills of Israel. It was the first kibbutz established in the Judean Hills. It is located west of Jerusalem, and falls under the jurisdiction of the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 466.
The land on which the kibbutz stands was purchased from the neighboring village of Abu Ghosh. In 1912 the Abu Ghosh family sold thousands of dunams to Arthur Ruppin, who represented the Zionist movement. In 1919 a group of 6 pioneers from the Ukrainian town of Kaminiz Podolsk and Preluki settled on the land, near a small spring called "Dilb" so-called for the surrounding plane trees (Arabic: dilb; Hebrew: dolev). The other 20 arrived there in spring of 1920 while five of the group came in December 1920 after liquidation of the farm in Odessa where they learned to become farmers.
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Qiriath Anavim had a population of 73, all Jews. Increasing in the 1931 census to 109, in 29 houses.
By the end of 1920, there were 200 pioneers on the kibbutz.
During Hanukkah 1925, a group of Hebrew writers convened at Kiryat Anavim to discuss creative ways of promoting the land reclamation and settlement work of the Jewish National Fund. The conference expressed the hope that Jewish authors and intellectuals in the Diaspora would help to further this cause.
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