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Rosh HaNikra (kibbutz)

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District
  
Northern

Affiliation
  
Kibbutz Movement

Name meaning
  
Head of the Grottoes

Local time
  
Thursday 1:17 AM

Council
  
Mateh Asher

Population (2015)
  
1,271

Founded
  
6 January 1949

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Founded by
  
Demobilised Palmach members

Weather
  
13°C, Wind NE at 3 km/h, 80% Humidity

Rosh HaNikra (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הַנִּקְרָה‎) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located on the Mediterranean coast near the Rosh HaNikra grottoes and the border with Lebanon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 1,271.

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Map of Rosh HaNikra, Israel

History

The kibbutz was established on 6 January 1949 by a gar'in of demobilised Palmach soldiers who moved there from Kibbutz Hanita, along with Zionist youth movement members and young Holocaust survivors.

It was built on land belonging to the Palestinian village of al-Bassa, which was depopulated in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Economy

The kibbutz grows bananas and avocados, and raises turkeys. In 1974, kibbutz members founded a biotechnology company called Rahan Meristem, which included the first commercial tissue culture laboratory in the country. Rahan developed new procedures for large scale, in-vitro, clonal propagation of over 200 plant genera including ornamental, industrial, fruit, and vegetable crops. In the mid-1980s, in-vitro propagated banana plants became the leading product. Rahan is now a center of research and consultation for the banana industry throughout the world. A formal R&D department was established in 1991 to provide technical support. Areas of expertise include molecular and classical genetics, plant cell and tissue culture, plant biochemistry and physiology, bacteriology and industrial biotechnology. Methods have also been developed for the control of contaminating microbes, early detection and elimination of somaclonal variation, reduction of labor and fixed costs in production, etc.

In the early 21st century, the kibbutz was privatized.

Notable residents

  • Sacha Baron Cohen, English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer
  • Nufar Edelman (born 1982), Olympic sailor
  • Eitan Friedlander (born 1958), Olympic sailor
  • Dekel Keinan, Israeli footballer
  • References

    Rosh HaNikra (kibbutz) Wikipedia