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Yad Hanna

Yad Hana
יַד חַנָּה
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Yad Hana is located in Israel
Yad Hana
Yad Hana
Coordinates: 32°19′35.03″N 35°0′23.03″E / 32.3263972°N 35.0063972°E / 32.3263972; 35.0063972Coordinates: 32°19′35.03″N 35°0′23.03″E / 32.3263972°N 35.0063972°E / 32.3263972; 35.0063972
District Central
Council Hefer Valley
Affiliation Kibbutz Movement
Founded 1950
Founded by Dror members
Population (2015) 800

Yad Hana (Hebrew: יַד חַנָּה‎, lit. Hannah's Memorial) is a Community settlement and former kibbutz in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Highway 57 and north of the country's center, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 800.

The kibbutz was established in 1950 by a gar'in of Dror members and was named in honour of Hannah Szenes. In 1953, as a result of the split in Mapam (with which the kibbutz members were affiliated), most of the kibbutz members defected to Maki. However, 120 members who disagreed with this left the kibbutz to found a new one nearby by the name of Yad Hana Senesh (which was disbanded in 1972). As a result, the kibbutz became known as the "only communist kibbutz."

In 2003 the kibbutz was officially rezoned and popularly renamed Yad Hana-Homesh, when the kibbutz accepted the government's generous privatization package which included absorbing settlers evicted from Homesh as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan (see Protocol N.31 of the Knesset Ombudsman sub-committee on the disengaged, 5 Jan-2009. Today Yad Hana is a collective suburb, whose main industry is its own commercial real estate development.


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