Gan Shmuel Colony

Gan Shmuel, also known as Gan Shmuel, is a kibbutz located in the Haifa District on the lands of the depopulated village of Khirbet al-Sarkas, Haifa subdistrict. The kibbutz was named after Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever, one of the early Zionist pioneers. The first core group of Jewish workers settled on the land of Gan Shmuel in 1913. This main labor group consisted of Jewish immigrants from Russia, Austria, and Poland. After the core group expanded, it was officially recognized as a settlement group in 1921. In the 1930s, Gan Shmuel transformed into a kibbutz and joined the Kibbutz Movement in 1935. In 2015, the settler population was approximately 870.   Sources: Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, Israeli sources were used: the settlement’s website in Hebrew / the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. The village of Khirbet al-Sarkas is referenced from the Palestine Remembered website.