The Two Ein's—Ein Hawd & Ein Hod
The first is a Palestinian village in the Carmel Mountain foothills, 16 km/3 miles from Haifa and the Mediterranean Coast. Ein Hod (Spring of Glory), the ancestral village of the Palestinians now displaced by the Nakba to Ein Hawd (Spring of the Trough), is the only art colony in Israel.
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Marcel Janco began his main Israeli project in May 1953, after he had been mandated by the Israeli government to prospect the mountainous regions and delimit a new national park south of Mount Carmel. In his own account (since disputed by others), he came across the deserted village of Ein Hod, which the Palestinian Arabs had largely discarded during the 1948 exodus. Janco felt that the place should not be demolished, obtaining a lease on it from the authorities, and rebuilt the place with other Israeli artists who worked there on weekends; Janco's main residence continued to be in the neighborhood of Ramat Aviv. His plot of land in Ein Hod was previously owned by the Arab Abu Faruq, who died in 1991 at the Jenin refugee camp. Janco became the site's first mayor, reorganizing it into a utopian society, art colony and tourist attraction, and instituted the strict code of requirements for one's settlement in Ein Hod.(Wikipedia)