Ein Zetim
Palmach Settlement
Ein Zetim is a Palmach settlement that was founded about 3 kilometers north-east of Safed, next to the Arab village of Ein Zeytun, whose name is the Hebrew translation of the Arab name. Back in 1891, immigrants from Russia attempted to settle the site, but the settlement they established was abandoned at the end of World War I. In 1925, it was re-settled and then deserted once again during the Arab Riots of 1929. The third settlement attempt in the same place, at the beginning of the 1930s, also ended in failure seven years later, due to the Great Arab Revolt.
On the 17th of January 1946 (Tu Bishvat Tashav), a group of Noar Oved (Working Youth) of the United Kibbutz movement, members of the Palmach's C Company, settled in Ein Zetim with the purpose of founding a kibbutz.
During the War of Independence, the settlement served as a forward Palmach outpost from which fighters went into battle in various areas of the Galilee, and the settlement itself was attacked several times.
Near the end of the war, the settlement was dismantled due to a shortage of land and means.
On the 17th of January 1946 (Tu Bishvat Tashav), a group of Noar Oved (Working Youth) of the United Kibbutz movement, members of the Palmach's C Company, settled in Ein Zetim with the purpose of founding a kibbutz.
During the War of Independence, the settlement served as a forward Palmach outpost from which fighters went into battle in various areas of the Galilee, and the settlement itself was attacked several times.
Near the end of the war, the settlement was dismantled due to a shortage of land and means.