Talk:Beit HaShita

Steve G,

I dont know who you are, but You are incorrect. "Bet HaShitta" is not the official English spelling in any way I know. All English road signs in Israel refer to it as Beit Hashita. While the domain name is not spelled either way, on their own website they call it "Beit Hashita." Follow the link in this article for proof. If you still don't believe me, go buy a can of Gilboa olives and see it spelled "Beit Hashita" there as well. Do a Google search. While both spellings are used, there are about five times as many uses of "Beit Hashita" as there are "Bet HaShitta." I used to live on this kibbutz, and I'm pretty sure I know how to spell its name.

Further, Beit Hashita is in fact between Afula and Bet She'an. In fact, it is closer to Afula!

Further still, Kibbutz Beit Hashita is in fact the Kibbutz upon which the book "Kibbutz Makom" is based. Obtain a copy of the book and see for youself, or look it up on Amazon.com.

If you do not believe any of this to be true, state your reasons. Otherwise, leave the facts alone.

Name spelling

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 * I suggest you sign in for the sake of discussion. Translating names from Hebrew to English is always confusing, but my source is the Israel Centeral Bureau of Statistics. Bet HaShitta is hard to find on their site since it has a population less than 1,000. Follow this link http://www.cbs.gov.il/population/localities/explanations.pdf (sorry, in Hebrew) and that will show what the ICBS says is the spelling.  BTW - you yourself state that each source spells it differently. Steve G 02:42, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Date of founding
The article gives a founding date of 4 December 1928, but I cannot find any source for that. The kibbutz website features the date 25 Tishrei 1928 (4 October 1928), but that was only the day on which "group classes" (קבוצת החוגים - is there a better translation?) were held in Hadera by a group of people to plan the settlement. They didn't live at this place for years, it wasn't even purchased until 1931, so calling 1928 the founding date is dubious. The founding date given by the 1952 Yearbook of Israel is Dec 12, 1935, and I'll use that. Zerotalk 10:15, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Note that Carta's Official Guide supports 1935 as the founding year. Zerotalk 10:26, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Uri Davis, Salman Abu Sitta
Salman Abu Sitta, quoted in Uri Davis, 2008, In Search of the Abu Sitta Sword, p. 43 say this it was built on Sursock land, but Stein contradicts that (in some detail). The land was owned by first two, later one absentee landlord in Haifa, Huldra (talk) 21:56, 9 September 2019 (UTC)