Evron, Israel
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) 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. Remnants of a church from the 5th century were discovered on the kibbutz land, and it has an archaeological collection with findings from the area. In the eastern part of the kibbutz is a part of an aqueduct which conducted water from the Cabri springs to Acre.
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
References
- ^ "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ Zane Stepka; et al. (Jun 13, 2022). "Hidden signatures of early fire at Evron Quarry (1.0 to 0.8 Mya)". PNAS. 119 (25): e2123439119. Bibcode:2022PNAS..11923439S. doi:10.1073/pnas.2123439119. PMC 9231470. PMID 35696581.
- ^ Colin Barras (Jun 18, 2022). "AI finds hidden evidence of ancient human fires 1 million years ago". New Scientist.
- ^ El'azari, Yuval, ed. (2005). Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. p. 399. ISBN 965-7184-34-7. and Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem: Carta, p.156, ISBN 965-220-186-3 (English)
- ^ "Evron". romgalil.org.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2008-11-07.