Dafna

Dafna דפנה‎
Dafna in 1939
Dafna
Coordinates: 33°13′48″N 35°38′19″E / 33.23000°N 35.63861°E / 33.23000; 35.63861
Country	Israel
District	Northern
Council	Upper Galilee
Affiliation	Kibbutz Movement
Founded	3 May 1939
Founded by	Polish and Lithuanian Habonim Dror members
Population  (2022)	1,073[1]
Website	www.dafna.org.il

Dafna (Hebrew: דַּפְנָה) is a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel. Located seven kilometres east of Kiryat Shmona and surrounded by three streams of the Dan River, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. The kibbutz was founded on 3 May 1939 as a Tower and Stockade settlement, the first such settlement in the northern Hula Valley. Dafna, Beit Hillel, She'ar Yashuv and Dan were known as the "Ussishkin Fortresses", named after Menahem Ussishkin. In 2022 it had a population of 1,073.^[1]