Amir

History

Kibbutz Amir was established on 29 October 1939 on land purchased by the Jewish National Fund from the Arab village of Khiyam al-Walid. It was the last of the tower and stockade settlements, and the only one to be established during World War II. Its founders were Jewish immigrants and refugees from Lithuania and Poland, later joined by German and Yugoslav settlers. Initially they suffered from outbreaks of malaria, but managed to establish an intensively cultivated farm. According to a 1949 report from the Jewish National Fund, a clinic was opened at Amir for the treatment of malaria and eye diseases by a professor from Hebrew University. Until the beginning of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war treatment there for neighboring Arab villagers was free. On July 15, 2006, a missile fired from Lebanon hit Kibbutz Amir, setting fire to the factory, which is located about 400 meters from the kibbutz residences. The attack was on Saturday when the factory was closed. Four days later, a missile hit a cow shed, killing two dozen dairy cows.

Most-observed species

• Arabian gazelle

  Gazella gazella (Pallas, 1766) · Mammalia
  4,729
• Chukar

  Alectoris chukar (J.E.Gray, 1830) · Aves
  3,593
• White-spectacled Bulbul

  Pycnonotus xanthopygos (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833) · Aves
  3,419
• Hooded Crow

  Corvus cornix Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  3,333
• Eurasian Kestrel

  Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  3,262
• Eurasian Collared-Dove

  Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838) · Aves
  2,856
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,836
• Eurasian Jay

  Garrulus glandarius (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,821

Most recent

• M 4.3 — 2026-04-06
  52 km NW of Tyre, Lebanon
• M 3.7 — 2022-01-23
  4 km ENE of Kafr Mi?r, Israel
• M 4.1 — 2022-01-22
  4 km E of Taiyiba, Israel
• M 3.3 — 2020-08-04
  1 km ENE of Beirut, Lebanon
• M 3.8 — 2018-11-03
  44 km WNW of Sidon, Lebanon
• M 2.9 — 2018-07-27
  1 km ESE of Migdal, Israel