HaOgen

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 2022 it had a population of 965.^[1]

HaOgen הָעֹגֶן‎
HaOgen
Coordinates: 32°21′49″N 34°55′25″E
Country	Israel
District	Central
Council	Hefer Valley
Affiliation	Kibbutz Movement
Founded	28 August 1947
Founded by	Czechoslovak Jews
Population  (2022)[1]	965
Website	http://www.haogen.org.il/

History

The 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

• Haya Kaspi
• Shraga Weil, painter
• Noam Yaacov (born 2004), Israeli–Danish player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League

References

1. "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
2. First first and last last Archived 2017-11-12 at the Wayback Machine HaOgen
3. 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.
4. "קמו שני ישובים חדשים". Al HaMishmar (in Hebrew). 29 August 1947.
5. Powers, Janet M. (2006). Blossoms on the Olive Tree: Israeli and Palestinian Women Working for Peace. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780275990015.