Ziv Reinstein

15/11/2021

Monday, 15 November 2021, 08:52 Updated: 08:56

Already without collective accommodation: the transformation of the family hotel in the north

After 3 years and an investment of NIS 60 million, the old Kfar Giladi Hotel in the Finger of Galilee has been transformed from another kibbutz hotel into a renewed family hotel.

And this time, with a spa, 2 large pools, great food and rooms overlooking Mount Hermon that will soon be snowy.

And the price is not in the sky either

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Kfar Giladi Hotel (Photo: Ziv Reinstein, Editing: Nir Chen)

The fall of the deciduous fruit trees these days paints the cylinder finger, but rather at the tip of the finger, right next to the nail, something else blooms.

The Kfar Giladi Hotel in the Galilee has undergone a "Mike Uber" in the last year with an investment of about NIS 60 million, after several incarnations from a relaxing home in the 1940s to a kibbutz hotel until 2018. Now, with the renovation completed in the summer, the hotel offers 158 rooms. Especially for families who are looking for a vacation in the north but also want to upgrade from the old kibbutz accommodation.

The rooms are in seven renovated buildings, one of which is a brand new building called "Ali Hill" with family deluxe Noble rooms. The rooms are divided into a children's and parents' area, and in the vicinity of the hotel there are lawns and shade for the guests to enjoy. What has been renewed is the lobby and its surroundings where stylish seating areas, an active bar and even a burning fireplace for the cold winter have been incorporated.

The dining room has a very wide variety of dishes, from the sumptuous breakfast that includes almost all possible cheeses, salads, pastries, Shabbat jahanon of course to the never-ending dinner that includes a variety of meats, falafel, more salads and stews and of course less tasty but kosher fur desserts Strictly speaking.

What has also been renovated is the lobby roof, which has become a kind of observation deck with a wooden deck with a few swings on it.

The view from the roof contains the small Metula, the Hula Valley with its fields and settlements and especially the Hermon in winter will be painted in an impressive and clean white.

But he is impressive in every season.

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An investment of about NIS 60 million.

The lobby of the Kfar Giladi Hotel (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

The lobby has also been renewed (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

158 rooms, mainly for families looking for a vacation in the north (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

My best massage

As part of the renovation, a spa called "Club Giladi" was built at the hotel, which is also open to outside appointments.

The spa is not large, but in and around it there is everything you need to energize the body: gym, sauna, two large pools (one indoor) and of course a treatment room with four main treatments for 359 shekels for 70 minutes (there are also 40 minutes) .

The massage therapists are freelancers who live in the area, who pop into the spa on request.

I met Uriah the Younger, a student at Tel Hai College who is about to move to Beit Hillel.

He studied the craft of massage in Tibet and also at the Fame College of Complementary Medicine.

I do not know exactly what he did on my back, but he combined Swedish massage, deep tissue and shiatsu, disassembled into elements and reassembled in one of the best massages I have experienced.

A few minutes in the cozy recovery room, tea and cookie in front of the view and the twinkling lights of Metula and the villages of Lebanon.

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Sports facilities for summer and winter.

The indoor pool at "Club Giladi" (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

The renovation was completed in the summer, after three years.

Kfar Giladi Hotel (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

Ancient basalt construction and lots of heritage.

Rishonim House on the Kibbutz (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

The aliyah you did not know

The location of Kfar Giladi is ideal for a trip to the far north. Half an hour and you are in the Golan, or in the Banias, Dan and Hasbani streams, and of course in the Hula Reed or in the first section of the Israel Trail, which is changed and starts right at the roaring lion monument near the kibbutz.

But before you rush out, the kibbutz has quite a bit of content that is worthwhile, and perhaps even a must-know. Let's start with the fact that the Hashomer organization, which grew up in Bar Giora and later became the IDF's "grandfather," operated here. Torah Schreiber, the woman who knows everything about the kibbutz that was founded in 1916 Which has become an events complex until the famous Slick that remained hidden until a few years ago.

"Our story is based on three elements - settlement, security and immigration, just like the issues the state deals with today," Schreiber explains of Kfar Giladi, but unlike other settlements in Kfar Giladi they are very proud that they were involved in land immigration, whose story is less well known. "Those illegal immigrants who came through the Palmach from 1921 to 48 from Syria, Iran, Lebanon and Iraq, drank their first cup of tea or ate bread with jam and salted fish on the kibbutz," she says. In total, Kfar Giladi became the gateway to about 100,000 Immigrants from Arab countries and also from Europe.

Another important event engraved in the hearts of the kibbutz residents, is of course the battle on March 1, 1920 (11 Adar), which is the Battle of Tel Hai. Six members of the farm, including Joseph Trumpeldor, were killed in battle and later (1926) reunited with Kfar Giladi. To this day, every Memorial Day, members of the kibbutz go up to the "Roaring Lion" statue and the Hashomer cemeteryAnd pay homage to that founding event in the history of Zionist settlement.

Kfar Giladi.

Since 1916 (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

Remains hidden and covert for decades.

The Slick in Kfar Giladi (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

Tel Hai students come here to search here in the biography.

"Books in the Yard" (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

"Rothschild Boulevard" of the kibbutz

But history is not the only part of the kibbutz. In fact, a past history is also a "Mike Uber" or adaptation to these days. Such is the "Poultry Trail", where until the 1940s there were 17 chicken coops, and today it has become a complex where cafes, for example "Cuckoo" that recently moved from Kibbutz Dafna, or cool little shops, like "Ronx" - Roni's special eyewear store Generation. If you will, this is the "Rothschild Boulevard" of the kibbutz.

Another place you must visit on the way is the old Torah bookstore "Books in the Yard". In an old building that includes several rooms, Torah holds thousands of books from any subject in the world. Some of them she received, some were left when someone moved or inherited that had nothing to do with her. Each book has its own discounted price and lovers of ancient literature will enjoy wandering through the night of books that are no longer found in any bookstore. "Even the lecturers from Tel Hai send students here to look for books," she says proudly."Even Steimatzky sent buyers here to see if there was what they wanted."

Even in the evening you do not have to leave the kibbutz, because the brewery "Odyssey" at the end of the chicken coop trail offers sushi, malabi and of course good keg beers.

The place has become a magnet for Tel Hai students and young people in the area and is open in the evenings from Monday to Thursday.

Moved from Kibbutz Dafna to here.

Kokia Cafe in Kfar Giladi (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

Sushi and beer?

this is the place.

"Odyssey" at the end of the coop trail (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

Roni Dori in the "Ronx" eyewear store for the chicken coops (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

The price of a room at the Kfar Giladi Hotel on weekends starts at a thousand shekels per couple per night, including breakfast. Not cheap but definitely gives to your husband if you enjoy the facilities at the hotel.

What is missing in the hotel? Firstly acoustics and good insulation, because you can hear everyone walking or talking in the hallway on the floor. Secondly, electrical outlets that are not at all in the bathrooms (for those who use the facade, for example). excellent and there is even a free tour on Saturdays throughout the kibbutz.

Total this good old hotels, such Helena kibbutz old, it was in rooms RV or kind of houses agency with a squirt on the walls outside gives way, in favor of a new spirit to upgrade the experience of camping and content in the Arctic Israel's.

Autumn paints everything in bright colors.

The finger of the Galilee and the Hula Valley from the Kfar Giladi Hotel (Photo: Walla !, Ziv Reinstein)

The writer was a guest of the Kfar Giladi Hotel.

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