Yehiam

Yehiam was founded by a group of the socialist Zionist Hashomer Hatzair youth movement—Holocaust survivors from Hungary and members from Yishuv—who named themselves Kibbutz HaSela (lit.

[dubious – discuss] The UN Partition resolution came almost exactly one year later, on 29 November 1947,[3] placing the kibbutz within the envisaged Arab state, rather than the Jewish one.

[9] On 20 January 1948, 200–300 troops of the Arab Liberation Army's Second Yarmuk Regiment based in Tarshiha attacked Yehi'am, armed with mortars, machine guns and rifles.

A platoon of British soldiers exchanged fire with the Arab regiment, which withdrew and tried to attack again the following night but was repulsed by a reinforcement of Haganah fighters.

During Operation Dekel the Israeli army conquered and forcibly evacuated the Bedouin village of Khirbat Jiddin[dubious – discuss] on 10–11 July 1948.

Hashomer Hatzair groups joined from different parts of Israel, as well as Aliya of that same movement from Cuba, France, Uruguay, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela.

[13] In 1969, Yehi'am established Deli-Yehiam, a kosher meat factory specializing in beef and chicken cold cuts.

In 2006, the company developed a new series of products including pastrami with pistachio, red peppers and olives, which was also marketed at retail chains and kosher delis in France.

Supplies airlifted to Yehi'am, 1948
Remnants of the Crusader castle
Yehi'am fortress