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Beit HaShita

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “kibbutz between afula and beit she'an”. Today it says “kibbutz in northern israel”.
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Beit HaShita ( , lit.1 House of the Acacia ) is a kibbutz between Afula and Beit She'an , Israel founded on 4 December 1928 by members of "Kvuzat HaHugim" and members of "Tnuat HaMahanot HaOlim" from Haifa and Jerusalem . The kibbutz was named after the biblical town of the same name, where the Midianites fled after being beaten by Gideon (Judges 7:22), probably situated nearby.2 It is under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council .3 The kibbutz has been privatized and today has a population of approximately 1,000. Many of the member families of the kibbutz are secular, therefore the kibbutz is defined as a secular kibbutz. Eleven kibbutz members fell during the 1973 Yom Kippur War , the largest number as a percentage of the population than any other town in Israel. Beit Hashita served as the basis for the 1981 English language book Kibbutz Makom , which described the kibbutz society. Between 1985 and 2002, the kibbutz hosted the American Class, a year-long program of High School in Israel for 10th, 11th, and 12th graders from abroad.4

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kibbutz between afula and beit she'an

Now

kibbutz in northern israel

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