Carmel

The "Cooperative Vigneronne des Grandes Caves Richon-Le-Zion & Zichron-Jacob" is the largest cooperative winery in Israel. Baron Edmond de Rothschild (1845-1934), son of the founder of the famous Château Lafite-Rothschild James de Rothschild (1792-1868), founded the wineries Zikhron-Yaacov (Jacob) south of Haifa on Mount Carmel (Book of Kings 1/18), already mentioned in the Old Testament of the Bible, and Rishon Le Ziyyon near Tel Aviv in 1882. He then gave these to the winegrowers in 1906. The Hebrew word "Carmel" means "vineyard" or also "God's vineyard", because viticulture was already practised here by the Israelites in biblical times. The baron thus became the founder of modern viticulture in Israel (in addition to a financial donation of 60 million gold francs).

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