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In 2011, Afikim Electric Vehicles' Breeze-S scooter won Germany's [[Red Dot]] design award in the life science and medicine category.<ref>[https://mobilitymgmt.com/Articles/2011/09/14/afikim-red-dot.aspx Afikim wins German design award]</ref> |
In 2011, Afikim Electric Vehicles' Breeze-S scooter won Germany's [[Red Dot]] design award in the life science and medicine category.<ref>[https://mobilitymgmt.com/Articles/2011/09/14/afikim-red-dot.aspx Afikim wins German design award]</ref> |
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On 12 February 2020, the [[United Nations]] published a [[List of companies operating in West Bank settlements|database]] of companies doing business related in the [[West Bank]], including [[East Jerusalem]], as well as in the occupied [[Golan Heights]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/database-all-business-enterprises-involved-certain-activities|title=Database of all business enterprises involved in certain activities relating to Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank (A/HRC/43/71)|date=12 Feb 2020|publisher=UN OCHA|access-date=2021-09-12}}</ref> Afikim was listed on the database on account of its activities in [[Israeli settlement|Israeli settlements]] in these occupied territories,<ref name=unlist_ohchr>{{cite news |date=12 February 2020 | title=UN rights office issues report on business activities related to settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory | url=https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25542 |work=[[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights]] | access-date=5 July 2021}}</ref> which are considered [[International_law_and_Israeli_settlements|illegal under international law]].<ref name=unsc2334>{{cite news |date=23 December 2016 | title=S/RES/2334(2016) | url=https://undocs.org/S/RES/2334(2016) |work=[[United Nations Security Council]] | access-date=5 July 2021}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 11:12, 12 September 2021
Afikim
אֲפִיקִים | |
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Coordinates: 32°40′46.56″N 35°34′40.08″E / 32.6796000°N 35.5778000°E | |
Country | Israel |
Region | Jordan Valley |
Affiliation | Kibbutz Movement |
Founded | 1932 |
Founded by | Russian members of Hashomer Hatzair |
Population (2022) | 1,488[1] |
Afikim (Hebrew: אֲפִיקִים) is an Israeli kibbutz affiliated with the Kibbutz Movement located in the Jordan Valley three kilometers from the Sea of Galilee. It is within the jurisdiction of the Emek HaYarden Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 1,488.[1]
Etymology
The name Afikim means "riverbeds", and refers to the Jordan River and its tributary, the Yarmuk River, and is also taken from the Bible, Ezekiel 34:13:[2] "I will pasture them ... in the riverbeds."
History
Russian Jews affiliated with the Hashomer Hatzair movement organised in 1924 and settled in the area of Wazia in the Upper Galilee. In 1932 the group moved to its current location on a tract of land belonging to Degania Bet,[3] where it absorbed groups from the Poale Zion movement and Hechalutz.[4] Yisrael Hofesh, one of the founders of the kibbutz, who died in 2011 at the age of 107, helped to establish the banana industry and worked in the plywood factory run by the kibbutz.[5]
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Afikim, 1937
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Afikim watchtower 1939
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Afikim, 1948. Photograph from Palmach archive
During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Afikim was subjected to frequent shelling by Syrian and Iraqi forces,[6] and was a stronghold of Palmach activity. Afterwards it was a center for agricultural training for IDF soldiers who planned to join kibbutzim after demobilization.[7] During the split of the Kibbutz Meuhad movement, Afikim, unlike many other kibbutzim, did not split up into two villages. Rather it joined the Mapai-affiliated faction which went on to found the Ihud Kibbutzim. In 1977, Afikim hosted 66 refugees from Vietnam. In 2011, the kibbutz accepted 100 new members.[8]
Economy
Afikim grows bananas, date palms, avocados, olives, subtropical flora, and grains. It also engages in aquaculture and dairy farming.[9] The kibbutz has 400 cows. It operates Afimilk, a dairy equipment company, and Afikim Electric Vehicles,[10] a producer of electric vehicles. In the 1980s, Afikim went through an economic crisis and was partially privatized.[11]
In 2010, Afikim announced its partnership in a half-billion-dollar milk production project in Vietnam. The project involved establishing a dairy operation of 30,000 cows to supply 500,000 liters of milk a day, about 40% of Vietnam's present milk consumption. Afikim was responsible for all stages of the enterprise, including breeding and preparing land for crops used as feed.[12] In addition to a demonstration farm with 174 cows established for educational purposes, a commercial milk farm with 20,000 cows, the TH Milk facility, was built in stages by 2015. The milk output per cow is 9,300 liters of milk annually despite tropical conditions.[13]
Inventions
The first electronic milk meter, which measures how many liters of milk a cow has produced, was invented at Afikim. Other inventions include the pedometer, which counts the number of steps a cow takes, indicating the right time for insemination; AfiFarm, a milking and dairy herd management software program; AfiAct, a fertility detection system; and AfiLab, a device that analyses the components of the milk and detects bacteria.[8]
Awards and recognition
In 2009, Assaf Inbari, a writer who grew up on the kibbutz, published Home, a novel based on the history of Afikim.[14] It was awarded the 2010 Israel Book Publishers Association's Platinum Prize[15] and was on the shortlist of finalists for the Sapir Prize for Literature.[16]
In 2011, Afikim Electric Vehicles' Breeze-S scooter won Germany's Red Dot design award in the life science and medicine category.[17]
Criticism
Involvement in Israeli settlements
On 12 February 2020, the United Nations published a database of companies doing business related in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as well as in the occupied Golan Heights.[18] Afikim was listed on the database on account of its activities in Israeli settlements in these occupied territories,[19] which are considered illegal under international law.[20]
Notable residents
See also
References
- ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ Vilnai, Ze'ev (1969). "Afikim". Ariel Encyclopedia (in Hebrew). Vol. Volume 1. Tel Aviv, Israel: Am Oved. pp. 265–266.
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has extra text (help) - ^ The secret of Israel's Milky Way
- ^ Builders and Dreamers: Habonim Labor Zionist Youth in North America
- ^ Yisrael Hofesh: Israel's oldest kibbutz member dies at 107
- ^ Jewish National Fund (1949). Jewish Villages in Israel. Jerusalem: Hamadpis Liphshitz Press. p. 191.
- ^ The Israeli Defence Forces and the Foundation of Israel: Utopia in Uniform. Ze'ev Drory
- ^ a b Ben, Coby (2011-06-17). "The secret of Israel's Milky Way". Haaretz.com. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
- ^ Israel's kibbutz movement comeback
- ^ "Afikim Mobility scooters". Afiscooters.com. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
- ^ Chávez’s Legacy: The Transformation from Democracy to a Mafia State, Ari Chaplin
- ^ "Afikim tapped to set up giant dairy in Vietnam". Haaretz.com. 2010-03-22. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
- ^ Vietnamese commercial milking venture nears completion
- ^ Shula Keshet, "Producing the (Eretz-) Israeli Place: On the Documentary Urge in Kibbutz Literature" (2011), Vol. 52, Hebrew Studies, pp. 235-58 (retrieved 17 November 2012).
- ^ Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, "Assaf Inbari"[permanent dead link] (retrieved 17 November 2012).
- ^ Greer Fay Cashman (25 March 2011), "Yoram Kaniuk's War of Independence memoir wins Sapir Prize", The Jerusalem Post (retrieved 17 November 2012).
- ^ Afikim wins German design award
- ^ "Database of all business enterprises involved in certain activities relating to Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank (A/HRC/43/71)". UN OCHA. 12 Feb 2020. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
- ^ "UN rights office issues report on business activities related to settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory". Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 12 February 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
- ^ "S/RES/2334(2016)". United Nations Security Council. 23 December 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2021.