{{Short description|Kibbutz in northern Israel}} {{Infobox Kibbutz | name = Yir'on | image = Yir'on 6856.jpg | caption = | hebname = {{Script/Hebrew|יִרְאוֹן}} | foundation = 20 May 1949 | founded_by = Former Palmach members<br>Dror-HeHalutz members | district = north | council = Upper Galilee | affiliation = Kibbutz Movement | popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}} | population = {{Israel populations|Yir'on}} | population_footnotes = {{Israel populations|reference}} | pushpin_map = Israel northeast#Israel | pushpin_label_position = bottom | pushpin_mapsize = 250 | coordinates = {{coord|33|4|37|N|35|27|18|E|display=inline,title}} | area_dunam = | website = {{URL|www.yiron.org.il}} |country=Israel (occupied Lebanese territory) }}
'''Yir'on''' ({{langx|he|יִרְאוֹן}}) is a kibbutz in the Galilee Panhandle in northern Israel. Located adjacent to the Lebanese border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Yir'on}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}
==History== The village was established on 20 May 1949 by former members of the Palmach's Yiftach Brigade and graduates of the ''Dror–HeHalutz'' youth movement on the site of the depopulated Palestinian village of Saliha.<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 |first=W.|last=Khalidi|author-link=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies|page=492|isbn=0-88728-224-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C |first=B.|last=Morris |author-link=Benny Morris |year=2004 |title=The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited|isbn=978-0-521-00967-6 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PR22 xxii], Settlement #161}}</ref><ref>Survey of Israel, Map sheet 'Alma, 1:20,000 series, editions of 1948 and 1958.</ref>
Ada Feinberg-Sireni, later a member of the Knesset, was amongst the founders. It was one of a series of villages established along the Lebanese border, with the intention of reinforcing the young state's borders. It was named after Iron, a biblical village of the Tribe of Naphtali ({{Bibleverse|Joshua|19:38}}), which is commonly identified with Yaroun, a Lebanese village 3 kilometers to the west.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Katz|first1=Hayah|last2=Levin|first2=Yigal|date=2021-01-02|title=Tel Rosh: The forgotten Rehob in the Upper Galilee|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00310328.2020.1751490|journal=Palestine Exploration Quarterly|language=en|volume=153|issue=1|pages=24–41|doi=10.1080/00310328.2020.1751490|s2cid=225601528 |issn=0031-0328|quote=mentioned in Josh 19:38 after Jiron, which he identified with the village of Yaroun, 10 km northeast of Tel Rosh in what today is south Lebanon|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
During the Gaza war, northern Israeli border communities, including Yir'on, faced targeted attacks by Hezbollah and Palestinian factions based in Lebanon, and were evacuated.<ref>{{cite news |last=Fabian |first=Emanuel |title=IDF to evacuate civilians from 28 communities along Lebanese border amid attacks |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-to-evacuate-civilians-from-28-communities-along-lebanese-border-amid-attacks/ |access-date=2023-10-22 |website=The Times of Israel |language=en-US |issn=0040-7909}}</ref>[[File:Yiron.jpg|thumb|Ceremony marking the establishment of Kibbutz Yiron. Saliha 1949]] [[File:Yir'on.jpg|thumb|Former members of the Palmach planting a memorial grove at Yir'on. 1949]]
==Economy== The main income source is Paskal Technologies located in the Ma'alot-Tarshiha industrial zone. Other sources of income include a zipper factory (Paskal Zippers), field crops, fruit orchards (apples, pears, cherries and kiwis) and a furniture factory, Rehitay Yir'on, which specializes in ready-to-assemble furniture.
The kibbutz operates a petting zoo,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-5010189,00.html|script-title=he:נעים להכיר: האגמים של ישראל|trans-title=Nice to Meet You: The Lakes of Israel|author=Carmeli, Gilad|work=Ynet|date=1 September 2017|access-date=28 November 2018|language=he}}</ref> where red deer, spotted deer, rabbits and chickens roam freely. Yir'on also rents out 38 guest houses to tourists.
In 2000 the Harei Hagalil Winery was established in partnership with the Ramat HaGolan Winery. The wine is produced from vineyards planted in the Galilee Mountains.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.galilmountain.co.il/warehouse/content/files/file_134.pdf |title=Medals and Awards| date=2018 |access-date=28 October 2020}}</ref>
For many years the kibbutz has cultivated a botanical garden. On the grounds of the kibbutz is a 200-year old hackberry tree, which is considered holy in Islamic tradition.<ref>[https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-01-20/ty-article-magazine/.premium/jerusalems-oldest-guardians-hackberry-trees-on-the-temple-mount/0000017f-ef84-d8a1-a5ff-ff8e59770000 Jerusalem’s Oldest Guardians: Hackberry Trees on Temple Mount] Haaretz</ref>
== Notable people == * Dani Arditi (1951–2026) - military officer
== See also ==
* Nahal Yir'on * Yir'on (Biblical city)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.yiron.org.il/ Kibbutz website] {{in lang|he}} *[https://haifa-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/collectionDiscovery?vid=HAU&inst=972HAI_MAIN&collectionId=81185259370002791&lang=en_US Kibbutz Yir'on Collection] {{in lang|he}} on the Digital collections of Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library, University of Haifa
{{Upper Galilee Regional Council}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Kibbutzim Category:Kibbutz Movement Category:Populated places established in 1949 Category:Populated places in Northern District (Israel) Category:1949 establishments in Israel