{{Short description|Kibbutz in central Israel}} {{Infobox Kibbutz | name = HaOgen | hebname = {{Script/Hebrew|הָעֹגֶן}} | foundation = 28 August 1947 | image = PikiWiki Israel 11429 an anchor at the entrace to kibbutz haogen.jpg | founded_by = Czechoslovak Jews | district = center | council = Hefer Valley | affiliation = Kibbutz Movement | popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}} | population = {{Israel populations|Haogen}} | population_footnotes={{Israel populations|reference}} | pushpin_map=Israel center ta |pushpin_mapsize=250 | coordinates = {{coord|32|21|49|N|34|55|25|E|display=inline,title}} | website = http://www.haogen.org.il/ }}
'''HaOgen''' ({{langx|he|העוגן, הָעֹגֶן||Anchor}}) is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek Hefer Regional Council and is affiliated with Hashomer Hatzair. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Haogen}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}
==History== The community was established on 22 April 1939 by Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia. After spending eight years in a camp near Kfar Saba, they founded the kibbutz on 28 August 1947,<ref name=H>[http://www.myhaogen.org.il/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=124&Itemid=93 First first and last last] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112132007/http://www.myhaogen.org.il/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=124&Itemid=93 |date=2017-11-12 }} HaOgen</ref> on land that had belonged to Wadi Qabbani.<ref>{{cite book|title=All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_By7AAAAIAAJ |first1=Walid|last1=Khalidi|author-link=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies|isbn=0-88728-224-5|page=566}} </ref> The Jewish National Fund provided 700 dunams of land for the kibbutz.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.jpress.nli.org.il/Olive/APA/NLI_heb/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=AHR%2F1947%2F08%2F29&id=Ar00800&sk=6DA0F5B8|title=קמו שני ישובים חדשים|date=29 August 1947|work=Al HaMishmar|language=he}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qL1NH3gqm-wC&pg=PA52|title=Blossoms on the Olive Tree: Israeli and Palestinian Women Working for Peace|last=Powers|first=Janet M.|date=2006|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780275990015|language=en}}</ref>
==Notable people== *Haya Kaspi *Shraga Weil, painter * Noam Yaacov (born 2004), Israeli–Danish player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
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{{Commons category}} {{Hefer Valley Regional Council}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Czechoslovak Jews Category:Kibbutzim Category:Kibbutz Movement Category:Populated places established in 1947 Category:1947 establishments in Mandatory Palestine Category:Populated places in Central District (Israel) Category:Czech-Jewish culture in Israel Category:Slovak-Jewish culture in Israel