People and places
The stories of Kinneret.
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.
Elisheva Bihovsky
The non-Jewish poet who bound her fate and soul to the Jewish people and to the poet Rachel, and paid for that choice with painful loneliness and dire poverty.
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.
Rabbi David Israel Tzairei (Al-Sharia)
They were daring pioneers who made the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee bloom, yet their story has almost entirely disappeared from the pages of history. Meet the community that fought stubbornly for its land just before it was nearly forgotten.
Yosef Zaltzman
One of the founders of the Kinneret group, he was murdered in an ambush in the colony's fields and became the group's first fallen member, whose blood bound it forever to the soil of the valley.
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.
Natan Ikar
Behind an unusual, solitary gravestone in the Kinneret cemetery lies the story of a Zionist bourgeois who could not bridge the gap between his dream and harsh reality, and was broken by it.
Rivka Chizik
A younger sister in the heroic family of Sarah and Baruch Chizik, who paid with her life at just 17 for draining the Lake Kinneret marshes and sanctifying pioneering labor.
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.
Shmuel Yavnieli
The daring emissary who disguised himself as a religious leader and set out on a perilous journey along Yemen's remote roads to call his brothers to immigrate to Zion. The man who sparked the "I Shall Ascend the Palm Tree" aliyah and forged a glorious historical chapter in the story of the return to Zion.
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.
14 place links in this collection
- Graves of Yemenite Immigrants, Kinneret Cemetery (the Old Cemetery), Kinneret
- Kinneret Cemetery
- Kinneret Cemetery
- Motor House
- Kinneret Cemetery
- Motor House
- Motor House
- Kinneret Cemetery
- Kinneret Cemetery
- Kinneret Cemetery
- Kinneret Cemetery
- Tomb of Yosef Zaltzman, Kinneret Cemetery (the Old Cemetery), Kinneret
- Kinneret Cemetery (Old Cemetery), Kinneret
- Tomb of Shmuel Yavne'eli, Kinneret Cemetery (the Old Cemetery), Kinneret