Ramat David

Ramat David
Ramat David
Coordinates: 32°40′42.96″N 35°12′13.68″E / 32.6786000°N 35.2038000°ECoordinates: 32°40′42.96″N 35°12′13.68″E / 32.6786000°N 35.2038000°E
District	Northern
Council	Jezreel Valley
Affiliation	Kibbutz Movement
Founded	1926
Population (2015)[1]	479

Ramat David (Hebrew: רָמַת דָּוִד‎, lit. David Heights) is a kibbutz in northern Israel.^[2] Located in the Jezreel Valley near Ramat David Airbase, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 479.

History

The kibbutz was established in 1926, and was named after David Lloyd George, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom when the Balfour Declaration was made. The German-Jewish architect Richard Kaufmann drew up plans for the design of Ramat David in 1931.^[3]

The author Roald Dahl landed his RAF Hurricane at the British Mandate airstrip at Ramat David early in 1941.^[4] He describes the German Jewish refugee children living there at that time in his autobiography Going Solo.

Notable residents

• Zvi Yanai

References

1. "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
2. From Jerusalem to Beverly Hills: Memoir of a Palestinian Jew, Eitan Gonen
3. The Changing Landscape of a Utopia: The Landscape and Gardens of the Kibbutz, Past and Present, Shmuel Burmil and Ruth Enis
4. From Roald Dahl to Ezer Weizmann, Historic Air Force Building at Ramat David to Be Preserved