Lo?amei Ha-Getta'ot

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LO?AMEI HA-GETTA'OT

LO?AMEI HA-GETTA'OT (Heb. ???????? ????????????; "The Ghetto Fighters"), kibbutz in the northern Coastal Plain of Israel, 3 mi. (5 km.) N. of Acre, affiliated with Ha-Kibbutz ha-Me'u?ad. Lo?amei ha-Getta'ot was founded in 1949 as one of the first villages to be erected in the framework of the comprehensive settlement scheme for Acre Plain and Western Galilee, by a group from Poland composed of survivors of the resistance against the Nazis in Polish and Lithuanian ghettos, among them Itzhak (Antek) *Zuckerman and Ziviah *Lubetkin. The kibbutz is located near an aqueduct built by A?mad Pasha al-Jazz?r at the end of the 18^th century to lead the *Kabri spring waters to Acre. Farming at Lo?amei ha-Getta'ot included dairy cattle in partnership with kibbutz *Ma'yan Barukh, poultry, avocado plantations, fishery, and field crops in partnership with the kibbutzim kibbutz *Adamit and kibbutz *Shomrat. The kibbutz ran a factory producing condensers and other electronic equipment and operated guest rooms and a restaurant. However, its main source of livelihood was the Tivall food company, which produced cholesterol-free products in partnership with the Osem company. The Ghetto Fighters' House in memory of Yitz?ak *Katznelson, the Holocaust Museum, and an educational center named after Janusz *Korczak are located in Lo?amei ha-Getta'ot. The kibbutz also published a research bulletin, Yedi'ot. At the close of the 1960s the population of Lo?amei ha-Getta'ot numbered 341, in the mid-1990s, it was approximately 530, while at the end of 2002 it declined somewhat to 480.