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Givat HaShlosha (lit. Hill of the three) is a kibbutz
Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a Intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The kibbutz is a form of communal living that combines socialism and Zionism....
 in central Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East 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 relatively small area....
, about 4 km east of Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, north-east of Tel Aviv. Petah Tikva's jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams ....
, near the Yarkon
Yarkon

Yarkon may refer to:* Yarkon River, an Israeli river which originates at Tel Afek, north of Petah Tikva.* Yarkon Park, a large urban park in Tel Aviv, Israel....
 river. A member of the Kibbutz Movement
Kibbutz Movement

The Kibbutz Movement is the largest settlement movement for kibbutzim in Israel. It was formed in 1999 by a partial merger of the United Kibbutz Movement and Kibbutz Artzi....
, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom Hasharon Regional Council
Drom HaSharon Regional Council

The Drom HaSharon Regional Council is a Regional council in the Sharon, Israel region in Center District Israel. Its offices are located on Highway 40 near Neve Yarak....
. The kibbutz is named for the three workers from Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, north-east of Tel Aviv. Petah Tikva's jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams ....
 who were accused of espionage
Espionage

Espionage or spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered secrecy or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information....
 during World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 (Palestine was then under the rule of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
), and were sent to a prison in Damascus
Damascus

Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is List of oldest continuously inhabited cities and its current population is estimated at about 4,000,000....
. They were tortured and died in 1916.

kibbutz was founded on 1 May 1925 by a group from the HeHalutz
Hehalutz

HeHalutz was an association of Jewish youth whose aim was to train its members to settle in the Land of Israel, which became an umbrella organization of the pioneering Zionist youth movements....
 movement from the city of Klosobah in Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
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Givat HaShlosha (lit. Hill of the three) is a kibbutz
Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a Intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The kibbutz is a form of communal living that combines socialism and Zionism....
 in central Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East 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 relatively small area....
, about 4 km east of Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, north-east of Tel Aviv. Petah Tikva's jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams ....
, near the Yarkon
Yarkon

Yarkon may refer to:* Yarkon River, an Israeli river which originates at Tel Afek, north of Petah Tikva.* Yarkon Park, a large urban park in Tel Aviv, Israel....
 river. A member of the Kibbutz Movement
Kibbutz Movement

The Kibbutz Movement is the largest settlement movement for kibbutzim in Israel. It was formed in 1999 by a partial merger of the United Kibbutz Movement and Kibbutz Artzi....
, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom Hasharon Regional Council
Drom HaSharon Regional Council

The Drom HaSharon Regional Council is a Regional council in the Sharon, Israel region in Center District Israel. Its offices are located on Highway 40 near Neve Yarak....
. The kibbutz is named for the three workers from Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, north-east of Tel Aviv. Petah Tikva's jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams ....
 who were accused of espionage
Espionage

Espionage or spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered secrecy or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information....
 during World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 (Palestine was then under the rule of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
), and were sent to a prison in Damascus
Damascus

Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is List of oldest continuously inhabited cities and its current population is estimated at about 4,000,000....
. They were tortured and died in 1916.

History

The kibbutz was founded on 1 May 1925 by a group from the HeHalutz
Hehalutz

HeHalutz was an association of Jewish youth whose aim was to train its members to settle in the Land of Israel, which became an umbrella organization of the pioneering Zionist youth movements....
 movement from the city of Klosobah in Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
. Its original location was west of Petah Tikva, near the intersection of Arlozorov and Tzaha"l streets in Petah Tikva today. Near the original kibbutz, there was a regional school named after Rosa Cohen—a secondary school for agriculture—which is now the urban farm on Kaplan Street, and a seminar for teachers. Today, a geriatric institution belonging to Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
 operates in the area. One of the largest dining halls in Israel at the time was operating in the kibbutz. It was managed by Aryeh Sharon, who planned other buildings in the kibbutz.

In the era before the founding of the state of Israel, Givat HaShlosha was one of the kibbutzim where the Palmach
Palmach

The Palmach was the regular fighting force of the Haganah, the unofficial army of the Yishuv during the period of the British Mandate of Palestine....
 trained, and it had weapons caches for Haganah
Haganah

Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces....
. Subsequently it was attacked by the British Army
British Army

The British Army is the Army branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdoms of Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707....
 during the Operation Agatha
Operation Agatha

Operation Agatha sometimes called Black Shabbat or Black Saturday because it began on the Jewish Shabbat, was a police and military operation conducted by the United Kingdom authorities in the British Mandate of Palestine....
. When displaced people arrived in Israel, the kibbutz absorbed many young people.

In 1952 the kibbutz split up, like other kibbutzim, as part of the schism of the kibbutz movement. In 1953 it moved to its present location, near its agricultural lands. The members of the kibbutz who transferred to the Union of Kibbutzim after the schism founded the kibbutz Einat
Einat

Einat is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located south of Rosh HaAyin, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 612....
 near Rosh HaAyin
Rosh HaAyin

Rosh HaAyin is a List of Israeli cities in the Center District of Israel of Israel. To the west of Rosh HaAyin is the fortress of Antipatris and the source of the Yarkon River....
.

Economy

In 1968, Givat Hashlosha had 510 inhabitants. Its farming is highly intensive, with citrus fruits and other crops, dairy farming and cattle. The kibbutz has a shoe factory and a plant for building materials.