Ma'ayan Baruch

The kibbutz was founded on 11 March 1947,[2] on the land of Hamara, a moshav abandoned in 1920. The founders were members of other kvutzot who had met in Kfar Giladi; members of the HaTenua HaMeuhedet youth movement, members of Habonim who immigrated to British Mandate of Palestine as Ma'apilim (illegal immigrants of Aliyah Bet), and members of a garin of pioneering soldiers from South Africa who fought in the British Army during World War II.[2]

After the 1948 Palestine war, Ma'ayan Baruch took over part of the land belonging to the newly depopulated Palestinian village of al-Sanbariyya.[3]

During the 2023 conflict between Hamas and Israel, northern Israeli border communities, including Ma'ayan Baruch, faced targeted attacks by Hezbollah and Palestinian factions based in Lebanon, and were evacuated.[4]

A new neighborhood in Ma'ayan Baruch was built to attract newcomers and bring money into the kibbutz coffers in the wake of the socio-economic problems that have affected many kibbutzim since the 1980s. The newcomers are from other kibbutzim and townships in the region, as well as other parts of the country.[5]

A museum which holds a collection of prehistoric artifacts found in the Hula Valley, The Prehistoric Man Museum, is located on the kibbutz. The museum collection includes the skeleton of a prehistoric woman, approximately 50 years old, buried with her dog.[6][7]

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  Ma’ayan Baruch 11 March 1947
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  Day of Aliyah - Ma'ayan Baruch 1947. The 3 Palestine Policemen include Amnon Assaf, founder of the Upper Galilee Prehistoric Museum[8]
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  Ma'ayan Baruch. First buildings 1947
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  Ma’ayan Baruch 1947

• Menashe Kadishman (born 1932), sculptor and painter
• Rela Mazali (born 1948), Israeli peace activist and writer
• Amnon Shamosh, Israeli author and poet

• Notes from the Frontier, an account of life on the kibbutz in the mid-1960s by American author Hugh Nissenson.