Ma'ayan Baruch is a kibbutz

Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism...

 in northern Israel

Israel

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. Located near the intersection of the Israeli, Syrian and Lebanese border

Blue Line (Lebanon)

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, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council

Upper Galilee Regional Council

The Upper Galilee Regional Council is a regional council in Israel's Upper Galilee region.The area has a population of 15,500 and has been headed for 14 years by Aharon Valenci. Its headquarters are located in Kiryat Shmona, an independent city not included in the council's jurisdiction.-Regional...

. In 2006 it had a population of 277.

History

The kibbutz was founded in March 1947 on the land of Hamara, a moshav

Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah...

  abandoned in 1920. The founders were members of other kvutzot

Kvutza

Kvutza or kevutza can be used as:*A definition of an organized group of children consisting of boys and girls graded by age, as used in modern Israel.*It can also refer to any other type of group of individuals...

 who had met in Kfar Giladi

Kfar Giladi

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; members of the HaTenua HaMeuhedet youth movement, members of 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:...

 who immigrated to Palestine as Ma'apilim (illegal immigrants of Aliyah Bet), and members of a garin

Garin

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 of pioneering soldiers from South Africa

South Africa

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 who fought in the British Army

British Army

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 during World War II

World War II

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.

Development projects

A new neighborhood in Ma'ayan Baruch was built to attract newcomers and bring money into the kibbutz coffers in the wake of the socio-economic problems that have affected many kibbutzim since the 1980s. The newcomers are from other kibbutzim and townships in the region, as well as other parts of the country.

Landmarks

A museum which holds a collection of prehistoric artifacts found in the Hula Valley, The Prehistoric Man Museum, is located on the kibbutz. The museum collection includes the skeleton of a prehistoric woman, approximately 50 years old, buried with her dog.