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Lakeside
Legacy
With its changing exhibitions by local artists, a spring festival
honoring the memory of adjacent Kibbutz Ginossar’s most
famous son and an ancient boat that sailed here through
history, the Yigal Allon Center tells a very special story
Miriam Feinberg Vamosh
T he scent of frangipani mixed Bedouin, a bond that is remembered by their important part of every recruit’s service – it
strives to instill pride as well as knowledge,
with the tang of eucalyptus, the descendants to this day. He rose through the
palms swaying in the breeze, political world to eventually become Israel’s and to link past, present and future. For
the jacaranda trees blooming in foreign minister and deputy prime minister. visitors from abroad, it often opens their
eyes to previously unknown worlds of the
bursts of purple – it’s hard to believe that all All through the years, he never stopped
this beauty has not been here for centuries. dreaming of a better future.
of which were written a stone’s throw in any
And yet when they showed of their dining Mishnah and the Jerusalem Talmud (much
hall, children’s houses, communal laundry Symbolizing the mark he left on both his direction from here), and of the pioneers who
and other elements of kibbutz life, the home community and all of Israel, the Yigal reestablished Jewish life here after centuries
of exile.
founding fathers and mothers of Kibbutz Allon Center rises up from the shores of the
Ginossar would tell incredulous tourists Sea of Galilee highlight the multifaceted
Allon’s vision of a Galilee whose people
staying at their guesthouse that they culture of this region. could build a future together based on
remember when they heard the irst birds common goals rather than their diferences
singing in the trees they had planted on The museum's ethos is not only to tell the led to the establishment of the annual Spring
these desolate shores in 1937. story of the past, but also to showcase the Gathering, at which he hosted his friends of
region’s multiculturalism through interactive all faiths and their families in the eucalyptus
One of those founders was Galilee-born-displays that keeps visitors thinking and
grove by the lakeshore.
and-bred Yigal Allon, a farmer and leader of involved. For local visitors – who include most
the Palmach (the pre-state defense force), of the region’s schoolchildren and soldiers After his death in 1980, the gatherings
who forged a unique alliance with the local on the “education maneuvers” that are an stopped and were sorely missed. And so, in
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Legacy
With its changing exhibitions by local artists, a spring festival
honoring the memory of adjacent Kibbutz Ginossar’s most
famous son and an ancient boat that sailed here through
history, the Yigal Allon Center tells a very special story
Miriam Feinberg Vamosh
T he scent of frangipani mixed Bedouin, a bond that is remembered by their important part of every recruit’s service – it
strives to instill pride as well as knowledge,
with the tang of eucalyptus, the descendants to this day. He rose through the
palms swaying in the breeze, political world to eventually become Israel’s and to link past, present and future. For
the jacaranda trees blooming in foreign minister and deputy prime minister. visitors from abroad, it often opens their
eyes to previously unknown worlds of the
bursts of purple – it’s hard to believe that all All through the years, he never stopped
this beauty has not been here for centuries. dreaming of a better future.
of which were written a stone’s throw in any
And yet when they showed of their dining Mishnah and the Jerusalem Talmud (much
hall, children’s houses, communal laundry Symbolizing the mark he left on both his direction from here), and of the pioneers who
and other elements of kibbutz life, the home community and all of Israel, the Yigal reestablished Jewish life here after centuries
of exile.
founding fathers and mothers of Kibbutz Allon Center rises up from the shores of the
Ginossar would tell incredulous tourists Sea of Galilee highlight the multifaceted
Allon’s vision of a Galilee whose people
staying at their guesthouse that they culture of this region. could build a future together based on
remember when they heard the irst birds common goals rather than their diferences
singing in the trees they had planted on The museum's ethos is not only to tell the led to the establishment of the annual Spring
these desolate shores in 1937. story of the past, but also to showcase the Gathering, at which he hosted his friends of
region’s multiculturalism through interactive all faiths and their families in the eucalyptus
One of those founders was Galilee-born-displays that keeps visitors thinking and
grove by the lakeshore.
and-bred Yigal Allon, a farmer and leader of involved. For local visitors – who include most
the Palmach (the pre-state defense force), of the region’s schoolchildren and soldiers After his death in 1980, the gatherings
who forged a unique alliance with the local on the “education maneuvers” that are an stopped and were sorely missed. And so, in
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