Ayanot

The village was named after the numerous springs in the area, though other sources claim it is taken from Deuteronomy 8:7; "For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills."^[2] The Jewish National Fund wrote in 1949 that the name is derived from the Arabic.^[3]

The foundation of the village began with the purchase of 140 acres (0.57 km²) of land by Ada Maimon as a girl's training farm^[3] in 1926. The village was established on 30 March 1930, though no-one lived on the site until Maimon, ten girls and a guard moved in on 12 January 1932; until then they had lived in nearby Ness Ziona.^[3]

During World War II, the village became an agricultural school and took in young Holocaust survivors who had succeeded in immigrating. Today it is home to a boarding school for 180 pupils. A few years ago, the agricultural school opened a miniature horse farm and one of its horses was a runner-up in the 2008 world championship for miniature horses.^[4]

In 2010, the village celebrated its 80th anniversary.^[4]

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  Ayanot 1941 1:20,000
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  Ayanot1945 1:250,000
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  Ayanot 1930
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  Ayanot 1934
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  Ayanot 1945
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  Worker's farm 1945
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  Young people studying at Ayanot, 1948