Editing Megiddo, Israel (section)

=== State of Israel ===

The kibbutz was founded on 2 February 1949 by a [[gar'in]] of [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] [[Sh'erit ha-Pletah|survivors]] from [[Hungary]] and [[Poland]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Robberts|first1=Jo|title=Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe|date=2013|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=9781459710139|page=40|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J8h_MF4l23wC&q=kibbutz%20megiddo&pg=PT40}}</ref><ref name=odot /> who organized at the end of [[World War II]] and fought in the [[1948 Arab–Israeli war]]. At first the members settled on the ruins of the Arab village [[al-Lajjun]]. Several years later, they relocated to a nearby hill.<ref name="Megiddowebsite">{{cite web|title=Kibbutz Megiddo - at Megiddo Regional Council website|url=http://www.megido.org.il/cgi-webaxy/item?info_yesh_megido|access-date=29 June 2016|language=he|archive-date=21 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821042901/http://www.megido.org.il/cgi-webaxy/item?info_yesh_megido|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1952 a gar'in of [[Aliyah|migrants]] from [[Lebanon]] and [[Mexico]] joined the kibbutz. In 1959, another gar'in of migrants from [[Argentina]] arrived. In the next few years more gar'ins joined and youth organizations volunteered in the kibbutz, but the population did not grow as members left the kibbutz.<ref name=odot>{{cite web|title=אודות קיבוץ מגידו [History of Kibbutz Megiddo]|url=http://www.megiddo.co.il/cgi-webaxy/item?152#.V1tRQ7srKHs|website=www.megiddo.co.il|access-date=10 June 2016|language=he|archive-date=20 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920071550/http://www.megiddo.co.il/cgi-webaxy/item?152#.V1tRQ7srKHs|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The kibbutz is featured in a popular Israeli children's story about a puppy named Pluto from Kibbutz Megiddo.

The kibbutz had problems developing demographically and economically. The number of residents remained low, with a high turnover of residents until the late 1990s. In November 2000, due to demographic problems and economic instability, members of the kibbutz decided to change the communal lifestyle and structure of the kibbutz in a way that every member is now responsible for his or her own livelihood and the kibbutz provides only some welfare services. Also, the members of the kibbutz decided to transfer the ownership of the housing units and businesses from the kibbutz to the residents.<ref name=odot />

In 2007, two new neighbourhoods were built on the western and northern parts of the kibbutz, with 108 housing units.<ref name="Megiddowebsite" />