Sarid is a kibbutz

Kibbutz

A 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 northern Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. Located near Migdal HaEmek, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council

Jezreel Valley Regional Council

Jezreel Valley Regional Council is a regional council in northern Israel that encompasses most of the settlements in the Jezreel Valley. It includes 15 kibbutzim, 15 moshavim, 6 communal settlements and two Bedouin villages...

. In 2006 it had a population of 590.

The kibbutz was established by immigrants

Aliyah

Aliyah is the immigration of Jews to the Land of Israel . It is a basic tenet of Zionist ideology. The opposite action, emigration from Israel, is referred to as yerida . The return to the Holy Land has been a Jewish aspiration since the Babylonian exile...

 from Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe 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 exclave, to the north...

 and Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 in 1926, on the location of the earlier Palestinian village of Khuneifis, which had been sold by the Sursock family

Sursock family

Sursock is a Greek Orthodox, Lebanese family and one of Beirut's aristocratic families. The Sursock family made their money as traders. The Sursocks were also landowners and for many decades Lebanon's leading business family, joining forces with the Otis Elevator Company to manufacture elevators...

 of absentee landlords. It took its name from the biblical

Bible

The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

 city of Sarid, situated in the southern part of the tribe of Zebulun (Joshua 19:10).

The poets Natan Yonatan

Natan Yonatan

Natan Yonatan was an Israeli poet.His poems have been translated from Hebrew and published in more than a dozen languages, among them: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Yiddish....

 and Pinchas Sadeh

Pinchas Sadeh

Pinchas Sadeh, also transliterated Pinhas Sadeh, was a Polish-born Israeli novelist and poet.-Early life:Sadeh was born in Poland. He immigrated to what was then Palestine in 1934. He lived and studied in Kibbutz Sarid. Later, he studied in England....

 and the politicians Natan Peled

Natan Peled

Natan Peled was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Immigrant Absorption from 1970 until 1974.- Biography :Born in Odessa in the Russian Empire , Peled moved with his family to the Bessarabian region of Romania when he was 8, where he studied at a Hebrew school in Chişinău...

 and Shlomo Rosen

Shlomo Rosen

Shlomo Rosen was an Israeli politician and minister.Born in Moravská Ostrava in Austria-Hungary , Rosen made aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1926. He joined kibbutz Sarid the following year. Between 1933 and 1935 he returned to Ostrava to serve as an emissary for Hashomer Hatzair...

were members of the kibbutz.