Revadim is a
kibbutzA kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism...
in the
Israeli coastal plainThe Israeli Coastal Plain is the narrow coastal plain along Israel's Mediterranean Sea coast which houses 70% of the country's population...
in south-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...
. It belongs to the
Yoav Regional CouncilYoav Regional Council is a regional council in the South District of Israel. It is located near the cities of Kiryat Gat, Kiryat Malakhi and Ashkelon...
. It is located about five km southeast of
GederaGedera, or Gdera is a town in the Center District of Israel. It is located between the cities of Rehovot to the north, Ashdod to the west.-History:...
and just east of
Highway 3Highway 3 is a highway in Israel. It begins at Beit Horon junction with Highway 443 near Modi'in, it passes through Kiryat Malakhi, and it ends a junction with Highway 4 on the outskirts of Ashkelon.- Plan for the future :...
. The kibbutz belongs to HaKibbutz HaArtzi. Its area is about 8200
dunamA dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum is a unit of area used in the Ottoman Empire and still used, in various standardized versions, in many countries formerly part of the Ottoman Empire...
s.
Revadim was founded on 14 February 1947 in
Gush EtzionGush Etzion refers to a group of Jewish villages established from the 1920s south of Jerusalem on the northern part of Mount Hebron in the southern West Bank, and destroyed during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War: Kfar Etzion, Massu'ot, Ein Tzurim and Revadim...
by members of
Hashomer HatzairHashomer Hatzair is a Socialist-Zionist youth movement founded in 1913 in Galicia, Austria-Hungary, and was also the name of the group's political party in the Yishuv in the pre-1948 British Mandate of Palestine.-Early formation:Hashomer Hatzair came into being as a result of...
, but it fell to
JordanJordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in Western Asia spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba. Jordan shares borders with Syria to the north, Iraq to the northeast, Saudi Arabia to the east and south, the Gulf of Aqaba to the southwest,...
, with all the other Jewish settlements in Gush Etzion, on 14 May 1948 during the Israeli War of Independence.
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Revadim is a
kibbutzA kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism...
in the
Israeli coastal plainThe Israeli Coastal Plain is the narrow coastal plain along Israel's Mediterranean Sea coast which houses 70% of the country's population...
in south-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...
. It belongs to the
Yoav Regional CouncilYoav Regional Council is a regional council in the South District of Israel. It is located near the cities of Kiryat Gat, Kiryat Malakhi and Ashkelon...
. It is located about five km southeast of
GederaGedera, or Gdera is a town in the Center District of Israel. It is located between the cities of Rehovot to the north, Ashdod to the west.-History:...
and just east of
Highway 3Highway 3 is a highway in Israel. It begins at Beit Horon junction with Highway 443 near Modi'in, it passes through Kiryat Malakhi, and it ends a junction with Highway 4 on the outskirts of Ashkelon.- Plan for the future :...
. The kibbutz belongs to HaKibbutz HaArtzi. Its area is about 8200
dunamA dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum is a unit of area used in the Ottoman Empire and still used, in various standardized versions, in many countries formerly part of the Ottoman Empire...
s.
Revadim was founded on 14 February 1947 in
Gush EtzionGush Etzion refers to a group of Jewish villages established from the 1920s south of Jerusalem on the northern part of Mount Hebron in the southern West Bank, and destroyed during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War: Kfar Etzion, Massu'ot, Ein Tzurim and Revadim...
by members of
Hashomer HatzairHashomer Hatzair is a Socialist-Zionist youth movement founded in 1913 in Galicia, Austria-Hungary, and was also the name of the group's political party in the Yishuv in the pre-1948 British Mandate of Palestine.-Early formation:Hashomer Hatzair came into being as a result of...
, but it fell to
JordanJordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in Western Asia spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba. Jordan shares borders with Syria to the north, Iraq to the northeast, Saudi Arabia to the east and south, the Gulf of Aqaba to the southwest,...
, with all the other Jewish settlements in Gush Etzion, on 14 May 1948 during the Israeli War of Independence. Its members were taken as prisoners by the Jordanians.
The kibbutz was founded anew in its present-day location on 28 November 1948 on the land of an abandoned Arab village, by individuals from Revadim who were not taken as prisoners. Later, members who were freed from being hostages rejoined them.
The kibbutz has a memorial for those who fell in Gush Etzion. The statue was created by the sculptor Aharon Ashkenazi.
On Tel Mikneh in the area of the kibbutz the Biblical city of
EkronThe city of Ekron was one of the five cities of the famed Philistine 'pentapolis,' located in southwestern Canaan....
was discovered, and at the entrance of the kibbutz a small museum of archeological finds from Ekron was constructed.
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