Neve Ilan

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Field	Value
name	Neve Ilan
hebname	נוה אילן
arname	نفي إيلان
image	PikiWiki Israel 40965 Neve Ilan.JPG
founded	October 1946 (kibbutz)
1971 (moshav)
founded_by	French Jews
district	jerusalem
council	Mateh Yehuda
affiliation	Kibbutz Movement
popyear
population
population_footnotes
pushpin_map	Israel jerusalem
coordinates
website	www.neve-ilan.co.il
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Neve Ilan (, lit. Oasis of Ilan) is a moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located west of Jerusalem, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of . Previously a kibbutz, it remains a member of the Kibbutz Movement despite its change in status to a moshav.

History

Kibbutz

The land on which Neve Ilan is located was purchased by the Jewish National Fund from an Arab effendi from Abu Ghosh at the urging of David Ben-Gurion in order to establish a "Kibbutz Army Post" to defend the Jerusalem road.

The initial 31 settlers were 17 young men and 14 young women, mostly Jewish immigrants from France and Europe. After a short spell working in Hadera they moved to Neve Ilan in October 1946; the settlement was initially a fortified post with bunkers and ammunition stores, with the residents living in tents, and later in two cabins. They used the effendi's stone house as their dining room, kitchen, and clinic.

At the end of November 1947, the road to Jerusalem was cut off, and the area from Neve Ilan to Hulda, the starting point of the caravans, was controlled by the Arabs, who dominated the hilltops overlooking Bab al-Wad all the way to the Neve Ilan plateau. On May 8, Palmach fighters, part of “Operation Macabee”, gathered at Neve Ilan in preparation for the attack on the village of Saris, and the western approach to Bab al-Wad.

In January 1952 a forest in memory of Count Folke Bernadotte was planted at Neve Ilan.

During the battles for the road to Jerusalem, a generator and perimeter lighting were set up at the kibbutz, in order to proclaim that a Jewish settlement was situated there. At the start of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War in late May 1948, the Jordanian Legion, based in Yalo, shelled Neve Ilan, causing heavy damage.

After Operation Nachshon and the battles for the road to Jerusalem, the settlers began construction at Neve Ilan. The original residents were joined by settlers from France and Algeria, who had survived the nightmarish voyage on the ship, Exodus.

In 1956, the kibbutz was disbanded and vacated, due to economic and social problems.

Moshav

In the late sixties, the Young Judeans in America sent a group to establish an industrial village in Israel. The members arrived in early 1970, and moved into the homes built by the Jewish Agency, with the settlement re-established as a moshav in 1971.

Economy

In addition to agriculture, the moshav operates a hotel, established in 1982. Neve Ilan is home to the Globus Group Studios, a large media complex that houses film and television studios where various Israeli broadcasts stations produce their content.

Gallery

References

"Israel Dedicates Forest in Memory of Count Folke Bernadotte". Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
"GG Studios- Profile". GG Studios.

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