Sir Ellis Kadoorie, a Jew and Zionist from China, founded the school. He believed in co-existence in Eretz Israel and therefore founded two schools, one in the lower Galilee for the Jewish population and the other in Tulkaram for the Arabs.
Almost all Kadoorie School graduates joined the “Palmach”. The central motive of the school’s tradition was a high level of tuition with major emphasis on agricultural studies. Integrity was a sacred value in the education of the students. Among the graduates were; Yitzhak Rabin, Yigal Alon, the poet Haim Guri and others. The school was called “the monastery” because of its isolated position and it was only for boys. Girls were admitted to the school from 1952. Today, Kadoorie is a boarding school and has agricultural land. There is an elementary school, middle school and high school for students from the lower and upper Galilee.
The Council for the Preservation of Buildings and Historic Sites, in
cooperation with Keren
Kayemeth (JNF), Ministry of Culture and Science and the Regional Council
of the Lower Galilee, works to preserve and reconstruct the Kadoorie buildings
and historical stables (as shown on the stamp).
The Council for the Preservation of Buildings and Historic Sites, a
public organization acting within the Nature Protection Society - was established
in 1984 by the Knesset Education Committee. The Council acts to prevent
destruction of sites and buildings: initiates and encourages preservation
and development plans, imparts educational values stressing the importance
of preserving constructed heritage in Eretz Israel as part of its cultural
history and increases public awareness of the need for preservation. The
Council operates a number of sites: the Miqwe Yisrael Visitors Center,
the Atlit Illegal
Immigrant Camp, the Ayalon Institute at Givat Ha’kibbutzim in Rehovot,
the David Ben Gurion Training Center in Segera, the Woman Fighter site
in Nitzanim and the workers camp in Sedom. It is partner to the renovation
of hundreds of additional sites, approximately one hundred of them serving
as visitors centers and historical museums open to the general public.
| Issue Date | 27 August 2002 |
| Denomination and Design | NIS 4.60, Kadoorie School |
| Series | Building & Historic Sites |
| Artist | Zina Roitman |
| Designer | Yizhak Granot |
| Stamp size | 25.7 x 20 mm |
| Phosphor | no phosphor bar |
| Printing | rotograuve |
| Plate Nos | 477 |
| Sheet | 50 with 5 tabs |
| Printers | House of Questa UK |