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| En Hod, Ein Hod | ||
| district | Haifa district | |
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| Residents | 590 (2015) | |
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En Hod (Hebrew עין הוד, also A hod) is an artists' village on the western slopes of the Carmel Mountains in the northern Israel.
background
En Hod was built on the site of an earlier Arab village, the residents of which had to leave the settlement in the course of the establishment of the Israeli state. The artist colony was founded in 1953, the initiative came from the well-known Dadaist Marcel Janco. Many of today's villagers are artistically active, there are various galleries and studios in En Hod, as well as a museum ("Janco Dada Museum") that focuses on Dadaism.
