History
The kibbutz was founded in 1949 by the British branch of Bnei Akiva, a religious Zionist youth movement. Many of the founders were amongst the 10,000 Jewish children who were brought to the United Kingdom from Germany as part of the Kindertransport following Kristallnacht. In its early years the Bachad movement raised money in the UK for the kibbutz as well as providing agricultural and educational training for Bnei Akiva and Bachad members in the UK on Thaxted Farm, Essex. Lavi was the only kibbutz where the children lived at home as opposed to a children's quarters where the children of other kibbutzim were housed, fed and put to bed. Among the founders was future Israeli diplomat and British immigrant Yehuda Avner.
The kibbutz was founded on land of the Arab village of Lubya, depopulated during 1948 by the Hagana forces. The source of the name "Lavi" and "Lubia" is from the ancient Lavi village which existed in the days of the Mishnah and Talmud, in which there was an inn called "Lavi", on the way from Tiberias to Tzippori.
In 2005, 770 people live in the kibbutz.
Since 2003 a Lavi residential scheme has been open for Jewish children at the school of JFS before the opportunity also arose for Jewish school children to join the trip from King David. The trip is based on the Kibbutz and now lasts 9 weeks, prior to the initial 11.
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