page_title: Sha'ar HaAmakim
section_title: British Mandate
hierarchical_section_title: Sha'ar HaAmakim / History / British Mandate
caption_attribution_description: English: Kibbutz Sha'ar Ha'amakim in the 1950's
context_page_description: Sha'ar HaAmakim is a kibbutz in northern Israel associated with the Hashomer Hatzair movement founded in 1935. Located near Kiryat Tiv'on, it falls under the jurisdiction of Zevulun Regional Council. In 2018 it had a population of 746.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the  British Mandate authorities,  the Al Zubaidat, who cultivated the Hartieh land, numbered  363,  all Muslims.
  In 1925 a Zionist organisation purchased 50 feddans in Hartieh  from the Sursock family of Beirut. At the time, there were 60 families living there. In the 1931 census, the Arab Zubeidat was counted under the Shefa-'Amr suburbs.
  From 1931, and lasting several years, the Jewish Agency struggled to evict the Arab El Zubeidat, who were tenant farmers at Hartiya. According to Avneri,  Hartiya land was to become Sha'ar HaAmakim.
  According to the Department of Statistics, however, Sha'ar HaAmakim had previously been part of Sheikh Bureik.
  Kibbutz Sha'ar HaAmakim was founded in 1935 by immigrants from Romania and Yugoslavia. One of its founders was Aharon Cohen, later to be convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Its name was derived from the nearby confluence of the Jezreel and Zevulun valleys. By the 1945 statistics  it had a population of 360, all Jews.
caption: Horse-drawn and mechanical vehicles at the kibbutz' flour mill in the 1950s
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