Tuval 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 northern
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 in the
GalileeGalilee , is a large region in northern Israel which overlaps with much of the administrative North District of the country...
near
KarmielKarmiel is a city in northern Israel. Established in 1964 as a development town, Karmiel is located in the Beit HaKerem Valley which divides upper and lower Galilee. The city is located south of the Acre-Safed road, from Safed and from Acre...
, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Misgav Regional CouncilThe Misgav Regional Council is a regional council in the Galilee region in the north of Israel. The regional council is home to 15,000 residents, across 28 villages, moshavim and kibbutzim which are each made up of between 40 and 200 families...
. In 2006 it had a population of 205. In the year 2000 a community neighborhood was set up within the boundaries of Tuval. Today Tuval is both a kibbutz and a community settlement
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Tuval 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 northern
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 in the
GalileeGalilee , is a large region in northern Israel which overlaps with much of the administrative North District of the country...
near
KarmielKarmiel is a city in northern Israel. Established in 1964 as a development town, Karmiel is located in the Beit HaKerem Valley which divides upper and lower Galilee. The city is located south of the Acre-Safed road, from Safed and from Acre...
, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Misgav Regional CouncilThe Misgav Regional Council is a regional council in the Galilee region in the north of Israel. The regional council is home to 15,000 residents, across 28 villages, moshavim and kibbutzim which are each made up of between 40 and 200 families...
. In 2006 it had a population of 205. In the year 2000 a community neighborhood was set up within the boundaries of Tuval. Today Tuval is both a kibbutz and a community settlement
The village was founded in 1980 by scouts and
Habonim DrorHabonim Dror is a secular Socialist-Zionist youth movement formed by the merger in 1982 of the Habonim and Dror youth movements....
members from
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and
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.
Theater artist
Robbie GringrasRobbie Gringras is an Israeli theater artist.A British-born Oxford University graduate, Gringras is an writer, actor, singer and storyteller who now lives in Israel on Kibbutz Tuval....
and his wife are members.