Binyamina Colony
November 5, 2025
Elyakim Colony
November 5, 2025Gal’ed is a kibbutz located in the north of the occupied Palestinian territories, with an area of approximately 14,500 dunams. As of 2017, the population of the settlement was around 485 settlers.
The kibbutz was established in 1945 by Jewish immigrants affiliated with the German branch of the Habonim Dror movement, on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Battayimat in the Haifa district, which was formed in 1938.
Sources:
Due to the limited availability of Arabic-language sources, we relied on Israeli sources, including the official Hebrew website of the settlement and the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics.
Information on the village of al-Battayimat was taken from the Palestine Remembered website.