HaBonim is a moshav shitufi

Moshav shitufi

A Moshav shitufi is a type of cooperative village in Israel whose organizational principles place it between the kibbutz and the moshav on the scale of cooperation...

 in northern Israel

Israel

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. Located 5 km south of Atlit and 3 km north of Kibbutz Nahsholim

Nahsholim

Nahsholim is a kibbutz and beach resort in northern Israel. Located near Zikhron Ya'akov, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 399....

, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council

Hof HaCarmel Regional Council

Hof HaCarmel Regional Council is a regional council located in the northern Israeli coastal plain. The council serves a large area, from Tirat HaCarmel in the north to Caesarea in the south. Its offices are located in Ein HaCarmel to the south of Haifa. The Chairman of the council is Carmel Sela...

. In 2006 it had a population of 259.

The moshav was founded in 1949 by the HaBonim

Habonim Dror

Habonim Dror is a Jewish Labour Zionist youth movement formed by the merger in 1982 of the Habonim and Dror youth movements. Habonim Dror's sister movement in Israel is Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed, the Working and Studying Youth.-Ideology:...

 movement on land which belonged to the depopulated Arab village of Kafr Lam

Kafr Lam

Kafr Lam was a Palestinian Arab village located south of Haifa on the Mediterranean coast. The name of the village was shared with that of an Islamic fort constructed there early on in the period of Arab Caliphate rule in Palestine...

. The first residents were from the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 and South Africa

South Africa

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. It came to national prominence on 11 June 1985 due to the HaBonim disaster

HaBonim disaster

The HaBonim disaster, which occurred on June 11, 1985, was an accident in which a train crashed into a bus, transporting students from the Y.H. Brenner middle school in Petach Tikva on their annual field trip, near Moshav HaBonim. 22 people were killed: 19 students, a teacher, the bus driver, and a...

, in which a bus and train collided, killing 22 people, of which 19 were schoolchildren. A monument was erected at the train crossing.
Located in the eastern part of the moshav grounds is the ruined medieval fortress

Fortification

Fortifications are military constructions and buildings designed for defence in warfare and military bases. Humans have constructed defensive works for many thousands of years, in a variety of increasingly complex designs...

 of Cafarlet, sometimes referred to as HaBonim Fortress.

External links

• Satellite view of HaBonim in Google Maps
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• Cafarlet Fortress on Gemsinisrael.com