Amikam

Amikam
עַמִּיקָם
Hebrew transcription(s)
 • official Ammiqam
Amikam
Coordinates: 32°33′49.31″N 35°1′14.51″E / 32.5636972°N 35.0206972°E / 32.5636972; 35.0206972Coordinates: 32°33′49.31″N 35°1′14.51″E / 32.5636972°N 35.0206972°E / 32.5636972; 35.0206972
Council Alona
Region Haifa District
Affiliation Mishkei Herut Beitar
Founded 1950
Founded by Immigrants from China
Population (2014)[1] 717

Amikam (Hebrew: עַמִּיקָם) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located near Zikhron Ya'akov, it falls under the jurisdiction of Alona Regional Council, whose headquarters are located in the moshav. In 2014 it had a population of 717. West of the moshav is the Alona Park.[2]

History

The moshav was established in 1950 by Jewish refugees from Harbin, Manchuria and Shanghai, China, who had fled the Chinese Civil War.[2] The land had belonged to the depopulated Arab village of Sabbarin.[3]

The founders were later joined by Jews from the Cyprus concentration camps, and followed by Yemenite Jews. In 1956, a group of Polish Jewish immigrants settled on the moshav. Some of the families engage in fruit farming, raising peaches, plums, nectarines and loquats. Children attend the local Tali Alona elementary school.[4]

Notable residents

References

  1. ↑ 2014 populations Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
  2. 1 2 Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Yuval El'azari (ed.). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. 2005. pp. 426–427. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.
  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. 187
  4. ↑ Alona region

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