HaOgen (Hebrew: העוגן, הָעֹגֶן, lit. 'Anchor') is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek Hefer Regional Council and is affiliated with Hashomer Hatzair. In 2024 it had a population of 828.[1]
HaOgen
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  HaOgen | |
| Coordinates: 32°21′49″N 34°55′25″E / 32.36361°N 34.92361°E | |
| Country | Israel |
| District | Central |
| Council | Hefer Valley |
| Affiliation | Kibbutz Movement |
| Founded | 28 August 1947 |
| Founded by | Czechoslovak Jews |
| Population (2024)[1] | 828 |
| Website | http://www.haogen.org.il/ |
History
editThe community was established on 22 April 1939 by Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia. After spending eight years in a camp near Kfar Saba, they founded the kibbutz on 28 August 1947,[2] on land that had belonged to Wadi Qabbani.[3] The Jewish National Fund provided 700 dunams of land for the kibbutz.[4][5]
Notable people
edit- Haya Kaspi
- Shraga Weil, painter
- Noam Yaacov (born 2004), Israeli–Danish player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
References
edit- 1 2 "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2026.
- ↑ First first and last last Archived 2017-11-12 at the Wayback Machine HaOgen
- ↑ Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 566. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- ↑ "קמו שני ישובים חדשים". Al HaMishmar (in Hebrew). 29 August 1947.
- ↑ Powers, Janet M. (2006). Blossoms on the Olive Tree: Israeli and Palestinian Women Working for Peace. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780275990015.
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