(View of the Sea of Galilee from the Kibbutz En Gev)
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En Gev is a kibbutz on the southeast shore of the Sea of Galilee. It was founded in 1937—during the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine)—as one of 52 "wall and tower" settlements by Zionist settlers (aka "tower and stockade" settlements). The goal was to populate the portions of land purchased by the Jewish authorities (Jewish National Fund). It was settled mostly by Jewish immigrants from German, Austria, and the Baltic countries.
En Gev (or Ein Gev) was originally on the Syrian border and was bombed in 1948 as well as other wars. When Israel took the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War, En Gev was secured.
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