Ramat Rachel
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Ramat Rachel רָמַת רָחֵל |
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 Ramat Rachel
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| Coordinates: 31°44′23.97″N 35°13′8.37″E / 31.7399917°N 35.2189917°ECoordinates: 31°44′23.97″N 35°13′8.37″E / 31.7399917°N 35.2189917°E | |
| District | Jerusalem |
| Council | Mateh Yehuda |
| Affiliation | Kibbutz Movement |
| Founded | 1926 |
| Founded by | Jerusalem Brigade of Gdud HaAvoda |
| Population (2015) | 467 |
| Website | www.ramatrachel.co.il |
Ramat Rachel (Hebrew: רָמַת רָחֵל, lit. Rachel's Heights) is a kibbutz in central Israel. An enclave within Jerusalem's municipal boundaries and overlooking Bethlehem and Rachel's Tomb (for which the kibbutz is named), it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 467.
According to archaeologists, Ramat Rachel "replaced Jerusalem as the economic and political hub of the southern highlands" in ancient times.
The kibbutz was established in 1926 by members of the Gdud HaAvoda labor brigade. Their goal was to settle in Jerusalem and earn their livelihood from manual labor, working in such trades as stonecutting, housing construction and haulage. After living in a temporary camp in Jerusalem, a group of ten pioneers settled on a stony plot of land on an 803-metre high hill south of the city. The kibbutz was destroyed by the Arabs in the riots of 1929. Hundreds of Arabs attacked the training farm and burned it to the ground. The settlers returned to the site a year later. According to a census conducted in 1931 by the British Mandate authorities, Ramat Rachel had a population of 131, in 45 houses. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War it was cut off from the city.
In 1967 it was the target of intensive artillery shelling from Jordanian positions. As the borders of Jerusalem were expanded southward, the kibbutz was surrounded from all sides by the city's municipal borders. In 1990, the kibbutz had a population of 140 adults and 150 children.
The kibbutz economy is based on hi-tech, tourism and agriculture. Data Detection Technologies, established in 2002, provides advanced counting and packaging solutions for the seed, pharmaceutical and diamond industries based on electro-optic technologies. Data counters are uniquely appropriate for items that are sold by units and not by weight. In the seed industry, prior to the advent of data seed counters, packaging was accomplished by weight. With the advent of seed counters, items are packaged in units as they are sold.
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