Ginegar

Ginegar (Hebrew: גִּנֵּיגָר), is a kibbutz in northern Israel not far from Nazareth. Located near Migdal HaEmek, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In 2021 it had a population of 666.[1]

Ginegar
Ginegar is located in Jezreel Valley region of Israel
Ginegar
Ginegar
Coordinates: 32°39′50″N 35°15′30″E
Grid position174/230 PAL
CountryIsrael
DistrictNorthern
CouncilJezreel Valley
AffiliationKibbutz Movement
Founded1922
Founded byPolish and Russian Jews
Population
 (2021)[1]
666
Websitewww.ginegar.net

History

Ottoman era

In the Ottoman era, there was an Arab village here called Junjar, probably preserving the name of the ancient Jewish village "Nigenar" or "Neginegar" traditionally considered the seat of rabbi Johanan ben Nuri.[2] The village was mentioned in the defter for the year 1555–6, named Junjar, located in the Nahiya of Tabariyya of the Liwa of Safad. The village was designated as Timar land.[3]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Junjar as a small adobe village, at the foot of the hills, supplied by a well.[4] A population list from about 1887 showed that Junjar had about 125 inhabitants; all Muslims.[5]

Gottlieb Schumacher, as part of surveying for the construction of the Jezreel Valley railway, noted in 1900 that Junjar had increased slightly (compared with the SWP-findings), and it then numbered 16 huts and had about 70 inhabitants.[6]

Jinjar (Arab village)

The area was acquired by the Jewish community as part of the Sursock Purchase. In 1921, 4,000 dunums of land in Jinjar was sold to Zionist groups by the Sursock family, its absentee landlords in Lebanon. At the time, there were 25 families living there.[7][8]

At the time of the 1922 census of Palestine Jenjar had a population of 175; 13 Jews, 118 Muslims and 44 Christian,[9] where the Christians were 31 Orthodox and 13 Roman Catholics.[10]

Kibbutz Ginegar
Kibbutz Ginegar Culture hall

The kibbutz was established in 1922 in the Lower Galilee on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. The Kibbutz was named after the ancient well of Gingar, which can today still be found under the laundry. The kibbutz founders, working at moshavim in the area at the time, came in the second and third Aliyahs. They united in 1920 to establish Degania Gimel south of Degania Bet, at a site later used by kibbutz Beit Zera. From here they needed to move due to a lack of land, and so they arrived at Ginegar, which is believed to be a distortion of Nagnager,[11] a village in the Galilee cited in the Talmud.[12]

In 1928, the Jewish National Fund recruited members of Ginegar to plant Balfour Forest, its first forestation project.[11]

In the 1931 census it had a population of 109, all Jews, in a total of 17 houses.[13]

  • Ginegar 1939
    Ginegar 1939
  • Ginegar 1942
    Ginegar 1942
  • Ginegar watchtower 1942
    Ginegar watchtower 1942

Economy

On the kibbutz is a large plastics factory, also named Ginegar. The factory produces mainly plastic products for agriculture. Ginegar accepted volunteers who lived and worked on the kibbutz for many years, but the volunteer program was eventually phased out.[14]

References
  1. "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  2. from the name of a herb, according to Palmer, 1881, p. 147
  3. Rohde, 1979, p. 83
  4. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP II, p. 41
  5. Schumacher, 1888, p. 183
  6. Schumacher, 1900, p. 358
  7. List of villages sold by Sursocks and their partners to the Zionists since British occupation of Palestine, evidence to the Shaw Commission, 1930
  8. Grootkerk, 2000, pp. 280-1
  9. Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Nazareth, p.38
  10. Barron, 1923, Table XVI, p. 51
  11. Kibbutz Ginegar: After declaration, before forest
  12. Ginegar: Early Days
  13. Mills, 1932, p. 73
  14. If you build it, they will come, Jerusalem Post

Bibliography
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