The signs are on the water tower that was photographed that day
Click for a larger image Below is the second sign image
Click for a larger image Where Chaim Arlozorov was murdered in Tel Aviv mentioned in the second sign is a memorial plaque
Click for sign's details And outdoor sculpture
Click for sign's details Translation of the text on the sign:
Kibbutz Givat Haim Meuhad On July 14, 1932, settled here, on the hill in Wadi Huwarit, is Emek Hefer, the founding group, among whose members are graduates of the "HaHalutz", "Techlet Lavan" and "Hashomer Hatzair" youth movements, who immigrated from Central and Eastern Europe.
The settlement was first called Kibbutz Hashomer Hatzair C, and after the murder of Haim Arlozorov, in 1933, its name was changed to Givat Haim, and a memorial site was erected there in his memory.
On November 25, 1945, the British Mandate authorities laid siege to the kibbutz. In memory of the struggle and the eight casualties that fell in this event, a monument was established east of the kibbutz.
In 1952, the kibbutz split, and the minority belonging to the "Ichud Hakvutzot and Kibutzim (Mapai) established Kibbutz Givat Haim Ichud on the neighboring hill to the north. The first settlement, which belonged to Kibbutz Hameuchad (Achdut HaVoda), has since been called Givat Haim Meuhad.
Here, on the 12-meter-high water tower, was erected during the 1936-1939 events, a spotlight for Morse signatures during an emergency, which operated until the end of the War of Independence by the operator who sat at the top of the tower. In the lower room was stored the weapons given by the British to gaffirs, the field guards. When the state was established, the room served as the kibbutz’s weapon. The tower was designed at the time of its construction, in 1933/34, to a capacity of 60 cubic meters of water, and it is still used by the settlement today.
75th Anniversary of Kibbutz Founding
July 14, 2007
[Another sign next to this sign, about Haim Arlozorov, whose kibbutz is named in his memory]
Chaim Arlozorov Dr. Haim Arlozorov was murdered on Tel Aviv’s coast on June 16, 1933, and is only thirty-four.
At the time, he served as director of the Political Department of the Jewish Agency for Israel, who was in effect the "foreign minister" of the country on the way.
He climbed quickly and became one of the greatest leaders of Zionism, and the leader of the labor movement.
He spent his last years saving German Jews from Nazism, and establishing the settlement plan in Israel, including the purchase of Emek Hefer lands. Thanks to him, the program received Jewish and worldwide support, and served as a landscape for raising international capital.
75th Anniversary of Kibbutz Founding
July 14, 2007
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