People and places
The stories of Kinneret Courtyard.
Homes, streets and memorial sites.
The people who left something of themselves here.
Aharon Shidlovsky
One of the founders of Kinneret, he left his hoe behind to don a uniform in the Hebrew Legion, proving that building the country sometimes means trading the furrow for a rifle.
Ben-Zion Israeli
The daring pioneer who undertook dangerous smuggling missions in Arab countries to bring prized date-palm offshoots to the Land of Israel, and with his own hands transformed desert wasteland into a green source of livelihood.
Hannah Meisel Shohat
The determined agronomist who rebelled against the gender conventions of her time and founded the Young Women’s Farm to make working the land a liberating force for Hebrew women.
Meir Rotberg
The man who sought neither honor nor authority, but believed with all his heart that simple agricultural labor was the true path to human redemption and moral betterment.
Noah Naftolsky
The taciturn, wandering farmer, regarded by those around him as eccentric, whose sensitive soul captivated the poet Rachel and stayed with her all her life.
Rachel the Poet
She arrived in the country as a romantic tourist on her way to Paris, but fell desperately in love with it and became a pioneer who chose words and fields, and went on to become a poet and a national myth.
Sarah Shmukler
Berl Katznelson's beloved and his legal wife are buried side by side in the Kinneret cemetery, joined by an extraordinary bond and a shared understanding shaped by one great love.
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- Separation Memorial at the Pools opposite Kinneret Courtyard
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