Dafna (Hebrew: דַּפְנָה) is a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel, 7 km east of Kiryat Shmona. It was founded on 3 May 1939 as a Tower and Stockade settlement, and was the first Tower and Stockade-type settlement in the northern Hula Valley. Dafna, Beit Hillel, She'ar Yashuv, and Dan were known as "the Ussishkin Fortresses" – Ussishkin Fortress Alef (1), Bet (2), Gimel (3), and Dalet (4), respectively. Three streams of the river Dan surround the kibbutz. As of 2019 it had a population of 962. |