The building was photographed that day by the same photographer
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Symbol of the 70th anniversary of Kibbutz Yad Mordechai
1943-2013
The old dining room The structure of the old dining room of the kibbutz was inaugurated in 1945
*, since then its original appearance has been preserved. The southern part of the building served as a kitchen and the northern part as the dining room where the members sat on wooden benches around long tables for three meals a day.
The children of the kibbutz, who were not allowed to enter the dining room, used to gather for dinner in the Skatostrada area and on the grass at the foot of the Statue Hill. While playing, the children enjoyed sandwiches that their parents "smuggled" out of the dining room.
During the 1940s, additional buildings were erected east of the dining room: a bakery, a laundromat, a ’commune’, a locksmith’s and a garage. Although it suffered a number of direct injuries during the War of Independence, the building survived and after its restoration served as the center of social and cultural life in the kibbutz.
With the inauguration of the new dining room in 1959, the building became a library and sewing shop.
*When the kibbutz was established, in 1943, a hut built south of Migdal Hill served as the dining room for the first two years of the kibbutz.
Donated by the "Aluma" group born in 1948-1947
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