Dafna
Sign in to savethumb|right|River Dan within kibbutz Dafna Dafna () is a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel. Located seven kilometres east of Kiryat Shmona and surrounded by three streams of the Dan River, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of .
Key facts
- Israel village.name
- Dafna
- Israel village.hebname
- דפנה
- Israel village.image
- Dafna1502.JPG
- Israel village.foundation
- 3 May 1939
- Israel village.founded_by
- Polish and Lithuanian Habonim Dror members
- Israel village.district
- north
- Israel village.council
- Upper Galilee
- Israel village.affiliation
- Kibbutz Movement
- Israel village.pushpin_map
- Israel northeast#Israel
- Israel village.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Israel village.website
- www.dafna.org.il
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Article
8 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- 1997 helicopter disaster
- 2023 Israel–Gaza war
- Climate
- References
- Bibliography
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thumb|right|River Dan within kibbutz Dafna Dafna () is a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel. Located seven kilometres east of Kiryat Shmona and surrounded by three streams of the Dan River, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of .
Dafna was founded on 3 May 1939 as a Tower and Stockade settlement, the first such settlement in the northern Hula Valley. Dafna, Beit Hillel, She'ar Yashuv and Dan were known as the "Ussishkin Fortresses", named after Menahem Ussishkin.