February 2 1946 – 1 Adar I 5706
Bacoli, Italy
Kibbutz Mekor Baruch was established in the Italian fishing village of Bacoli as an agricultural training camp for some ninety Holocaust refugees belonging to the religious Zionist Mizrahi movement “Torah V’Avoda”. It was named for two WW2 army chaplains – American Bernard Ziskind, and Baruch Epstein from Mandate Palestine who served as a rabbi in the British army. 300 people attended the founding ceremony, in which three weddings were celebrated. Most members of Mekor Baruch set out for Palestine on an illegal immigrant ship, only to be stopped by the British and detained in Cyprus.
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