The place where the sign is located was photographed on the same day by the same photographer
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[kibbutz symbol]
Kibbutz Netzer-Sereni Kibbutz Netzer-Sereni was established by Holocaust survivors.
In 1945, at the end of the Second World War, the "Kibbutz Buchenwald" nucleus was organized in Germany. Its main goal was to immigrate to Eretz Israel and establish a kibbutz.
In September 1945, the nucleus arrived at Kibbutz Afikim.
At the end of March 1946, another group of applicants came from Germany to Apikim, and together with the first group, they received training for the establishment of an independent kibbutz.
In July-September 1947, the group left Afikim for independence in Nachalat-Yehuda.
On June 20, 1948 (13th of Sivan 1948), at the end of the War of Independence, Kibbutz Buchenwald came up on the abandoned "Shefun" land near Beer Yaakov, and positioned itself as a forward defense position against the Arab Ramla and the Jordanian Legion.
On March 5, 1949, it was decided to change the name of the kibbutz to "Netzer" - "And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a twig shall grow forth out of his roots" (Isaiah 11:1). The meaning of the name: From the trunk of the tree that was cut down in the Holocaust, a young branch grows on the land of Israel.
In the years 1949-1950, additional groups of Holocaust survivors joined Netzer, from training in Apikim and Ein-Gev.
In 1952, with the split in the "United Kibbutz" movement, fifty families who left Givat Brenner joined Netzer. In this year, the name "Sereni" was added to his name, in memory of their member Haim (Enzo) Sereni, who went out as a paratrooper on the Yishuvs mission to help the Jews in the Holocaust, and perished on his mission.
Since then the kibbutz has been called: Netzer Sereni.
Over the years, sons and daughters from the second and third generations of its founders, as well as families and individuals from other places, joined Netzer-Sereni. Together we built a green and flourishing settlement, a warm home for his friends and children.