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Hulda (Template:Lang-he-n) is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah near the Hulda forest and the Burma Road, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gezer Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 332.

History

In 1905, the Anglo Palestine Bank purchased 2,000 dunams of land from the Saidun tribe for a Jewish settlement near the Jaffa-Jerusalem railway. Ownership of the land was transferred to the Jewish National Fund which turned it over to the Eretz Israel Office. In 1909, the Hulda farm was established and a building (today Herzl House) was constructed to house the manager of the farm and later, groups of pioneers who trained there prior to founding Ein Harod, Kfar Yehezkel, Ginegar and other kibbutzim.

During the 1929 Palestine riots, the farm was attacked and destroyed. British forces ordered the evacuation of the settlers but barred them from taking the body of Ephraim Chizik, the Haganah commander who was killed in battle. In 1931, the Gordonia pioneer group resettled Hulda. The farm suffered several more attacks during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.

During Israel's War of Independence in 1948, it served as the headquarters of the Palmach Yiftach Brigade and a base for convoys bringing supplies to Jerusalem.

Notable residents

• Amos Oz
• Pinhas Lavon
• Ron Huldai (his father took the family surname from the name of the kibbutz).

Economy

The Hulda vineyard, covering over 1,200 dunams, is the largest single vineyard in Israel.

References

1. Herzl never lived here
2. Herzl never lived here
3. Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel. Yuval Elʻazari (ed.). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. 2005. pp. p. 174. ISBN 9657184347. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: others (link) Template:He icon
4. Shabtai Teveth (1996) Ben Gurion's Spiy Columbia University Press ISBN 0-231-10464-2 pp 19-20
5. Barkan winery

• Gezer Regional Council
• Kibbutzim
• Kibbutz Movement
• Populated places established in 1930