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Evron, Israel

Field	Value
name	Evron
image	File:קיבוץ עברון - המבנה המרכזי.jpg
foundation	1945
founded_by	Polish, German and Hungarian Jews
district	north
council	Mateh Asher
affiliation	Kibbutz Movement
popyear
population
population_footnotes
pushpin_map	Israel northwest
pushpin_mapsize	250
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Evron () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Situated in the western Galilee adjacent to Nahariya on the city's southeast border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History

Flint tools and animal bones were found at a nearby quarry dating to a million years ago. A 2022 report concluded that they show that the hominins at the site used fire.

Evron was established in 1945 and was named after the biblical Evron (עברון Joshua 19:28), which in some manuscripts appears as Avdon (עבדון), a village nearby in Asher tribe (Joshua 19:28) {{Cite book |editor-first=Yuval |editor-last=El'azari and Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem: Carta, p.156, (English) The founders were immigrants from Germany, Poland and Transylvania who had formed the kibbutz in 1937. In the 1940s it served as a Palmach base and a hiding place for illegal immigrants of Aliyah Bet. The founders were later joined by more immigrants from Bulgaria.{{Cite web | access-date = 2008-11-07

Economy

Evron owns 60% of Bermad, a world leader in designing & manufacturing of hydraulic control valves for irrigation, construction, water management and firefighting.

Notable people

Haika Grossman

References

(Jun 13, 2022). "Hidden signatures of early fire at Evron Quarry (1.0 to 0.8 Mya)". PNAS.
(Jun 18, 2022). "AI finds hidden evidence of ancient human fires 1 million years ago". New Scientist.

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