{"id":8612,"date":"2025-11-02T20:26:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakbamemorymuseum.org\/en\/?p=8612"},"modified":"2026-02-25T19:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:56:18","slug":"beit-hashita-colony-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakbamemorymuseum.org\/en\/2025\/11\/02\/beit-hashita-colony-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Beit HaShita Colony"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Beit HaShita\u00a0is a\u00a0kibbutz\u00a0located in the\u00a0northern part of occupied Palestine.\u00a0Byzantine-era ceramic fragments and coins\u00a0have been discovered in the area surrounding the kibbutz.<\/p>\n

The kibbutz traces its origins to a\u00a0meeting held in Hadera in 1928\u00a0by\u00a0Kvutzat HaHogim, a group from the\u00a0HaMahanot HaOlim movement\u00a0in\u00a0Haifa and Jerusalem. The early members lived in the nearby\u00a0Ein Harod\u00a0until\u00a01934, when construction of the kibbutz began at its present location, approximately\u00a01 kilometer east of Shatta.<\/p>\n

The land for the kibbutz was purchased in\u00a01931\u00a0by the\u00a0Palestine Land Development Company\u00a0from its\u00a0Arab owners.<\/p>\n

In\u00a02015,\u00a0Yasmin Donahaye, a descendant of kibbutz residents, published a book titled\u00a0“Losing Israel”<\/i><\/em>, in which she expressed her\u00a0disappointment upon learning that Arabs had been displaced\u00a0at the time of the kibbutz\u2019s establishment.<\/p>\n

Beit HaShita was established\u00a0near the depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Marsas, in the\u00a0District of Baysan.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a01945 statistics, Beit HaShita had a population of\u00a0590 settlers, all of whom were\u00a0Zionist immigrants. As of\u00a02022, the population had grown to\u00a01,275 settlers.<\/p>\n

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Sources:<\/span><\/em>
\n– The Hebrew website of the settlement<\/span><\/em>
\n– The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics<\/span><\/em>
\n– Pictures: Palestine Remembered website.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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