Kinneret Farm
חוות כנרת, Havat Kinneret | |
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  Kinneret Farm | |
| Coordinates: 32°43′18″N 35°34′3″E / 32.72167°N 35.56750°E | |
| Country |  Israel |
| District | Northern |
| Founded | 1908 |
| Founded by | Zionist Organisation, Arthur Ruppin |
Kinneret Farm (Hebrew: חוות כנרת, romanized: Havat Kinneret) or Kinneret Courtyard (Hebrew: חצר כנרת, romanized: Hatzer Kinneret) was an experimental training farm established in 1908 in Ottoman Palestine by the Palestine Bureau of the Zionist Organization (ZO) led by Arthur Ruppin, at the same time as, and next to Moshavat Kinneret, a moshava-type village.[1] The farm stood in close proximity to the shore of the Sea of Galilee.[2] Until the early 1920s the farm was a hothouse and catalyst for social and economical innovation, which helped mold and create several essential institutions and infrastructure elements of the Yishuv, perpetuated in the State of Israel after 1948: communal settlement forms (kvutza, kibbutz, moshav), women's rights movement, cooperative enterprises (for supplies and financial aid, milk collection and dairy production, construction and public works), a workers' savings and support bank, public health care system, a national paramilitary organisation. From 1949 on, after the establishment of the State of Israel, the courtyard served different lesser military and civilian purposes, was abandoned, then restored as a heritage site, and it 2007 it was opened as a museum and educational centre.
- ^ "Kinneret Courtyard". Archived from the original on 2014-08-19.
- ^ "Moshav (sic!) Kinneret". Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2020-08-09.