Ayanot is a
youth villageA youth village is a boarding school model first developed in pre-state Israel in the 1930s to care for groups of children and teenagers fleeing the Nazis...
in central
IsraelIsrael officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its...
. Located near
Ness ZionaNess Ziona is a city in the central Israel founded in 1883. At the end of 2007 the city had a total population of 32,500, and its jurisdiction was 15,579 dunams.-Nahalat Rubin:...
, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Gan Raveh Regional CouncilGan Raveh Regional Council is a regional council in the Center District of Israel. The council's area of jurisdiction extends to eight...
. In 2006 it had a population of 396.
The foundation of the village began with the purchase of of land by Ada Maimon for a women's farm in 1926. The village was established on March 30, 1930, though no-one lived on the site until Maimon, ten girls and a guard moved in on January 12, 1932; until then they had lived in nearby Ness Ziona.
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Ayanot is a
youth villageA youth village is a boarding school model first developed in pre-state Israel in the 1930s to care for groups of children and teenagers fleeing the Nazis...
in central
IsraelIsrael officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its...
. Located near
Ness ZionaNess Ziona is a city in the central Israel founded in 1883. At the end of 2007 the city had a total population of 32,500, and its jurisdiction was 15,579 dunams.-Nahalat Rubin:...
, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Gan Raveh Regional CouncilGan Raveh Regional Council is a regional council in the Center District of Israel. The council's area of jurisdiction extends to eight...
. In 2006 it had a population of 396.
The foundation of the village began with the purchase of of land by Ada Maimon for a women's farm in 1926. The village was established on March 30, 1930, though no-one lived on the site until Maimon, ten girls and a guard moved in on January 12, 1932; until then they had lived in nearby Ness Ziona. The village was named after the numerous springs in the area, though other sources claim it is taken from
DeuteronomyDeuteronomy or Devarim is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible and of the Old Testament, and the fifth of five books of the Jewish Torah or Pentateuch....
8:7;
For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills.
During
World War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
the village became an agricultural school and took in young
HolocaustThe Holocaust , also known as The Shoah is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany,...
survivors. Today it is home to a
boarding schoolA boarding school is a school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board", that is, food and lodging...
for 180 pupils.
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