HaOn

HaOn (

The community was established in August 1949 as

Over the years until the 1967 Six-Day War, the kibbutz had many confrontations with Syrians across the border, mainly in the period from 1965 to 1967. Among other things, Syrian shepherds crossed the border and grazed with their flocks in the kibbutz fields,^[4][5] and the kibbutz members were frequently fired upon from the Syrian posts in the Golan Heights, while cultivating their fields.^[6][7][8] A number of machine operators received the decoration of courage for operating tractors and bulldozers, most of them not armoured, in order to cultivate land and carry out engineering work in the sector of fire, under heavy fire and artillery shelling on the Syrian side.^[9][10][11]

Due to the fact it was situated in the

Until July 2007 HaOn operated as a

In the village fields stands a memorial to two Turkish pilots who crashed at the location on 8 February 1914. Two planes of the fledgling

HaOn runs a spa facing the Sea of Galilee.[16]

In Kibbutz Haon there was a large ostrich farm in Israel with more than 5000 ostriches, for commercial and tourist purposes. The farm still exists,^[when?] but only for tourist purposes.^{[citation needed]} The kibbutz also had banana fields, a date grove and fish farm, all of which were harvested and for commercial sale. On the south side of the kibbutz was a modest vacation resort with a small club and beach access to the lake.

In the years 1995, 1998 and 1999, the Jacob's Ladder (music festival) took place^[where?].^[17]

See also

• Aviation Martyrs' Monument, the memorial dedicated to the fallen officers of the same 1914 expedition, but this time in Istanbul

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