Megadim

Megadim lies south of Haifa, near the Hof HaCarmel Forest.[5] It belongs to the Hof HaCarmel Regional Council and is classified as a moshav in official locality records.[6] Its locality code is 0689.[7]

The community provides an access point for a circular walking route along the Sefunim Stream, passing banana groves and Megadim cliff.[4] Its documented economic activity includes a medical-cannabis growing and propagation facility.[8]

Megadim was founded in 1949, the year also recorded as its “Year of Jewish settlement” in the official alphabetical list of localities.[1][7] A 1969 archival item titled “Children working in farms at the Megadim village” documents children engaged in farm work; its Hebrew title identifies the settlement as a moshav.[2]

An archaeological journal catalog includes an item titled “Underwater Ptolemaic coin hoards from Megadim.”[9] The catalog entry supplies no further details about the finds or the item’s date.[9]

In 2022, Megadim was among the communities scheduled to hear a siren during an emergency-readiness exercise organized by the Hof HaCarmel Regional Council and Home Front Command.[10]

Megadim had 743 inhabitants on December 31, 2004.[1] Its population was recorded as 1,380 in 2020.[3] The latter figure is a dated population count rather than a current estimate.[3]

The locality’s 2020 peripherality index was approximately −0.0574, with a ranking of 657 and placement in cluster 4.[3]

Medical-cannabis producer and exporter My Green Fields operated in Megadim, began marketing products in Israel in 2021, and also exported its output.[8] Its reported annual production was approximately 15 tons.[8]

By May 4, 2026, the Pisso family had agreed to sell a roughly 45-dunam estate in Megadim, including a cannabis-growing and propagation facility, equipment, other fixed assets, and about 200,000 cannabis seedlings.[8] The facility covered approximately 42,000 square meters, and the transaction’s estimated value was $60–70 million.[8] The prospective buyer was Leonid Blitstein, and the transaction was subject to the necessary medical-cannabis authorization.[8]

The proposed transaction followed a licensing dispute: the Health Ministry revoked the companies’ medical-cannabis licenses in 2025 following a police recommendation based on intelligence.[8] The companies and the Pisso couple challenged the decision, arguing in part that limited disclosure made it difficult to defend themselves.[8] The Jerusalem District Court rejected their petition, while the Supreme Court subsequently allowed additional time to sell assets and wind down the business.[8]

The nearby forest also serves as a setting for recreational activity: Megadim resident Sigal Rosen participated in a nature-based breathing and stretching activity there and described the experience positively.[5]

Megadim cliff is a viewpoint on the circular Sefunim Stream walking route, with views of both the moshav and Atlit fortress.[4] Visitors can leave a vehicle at Megadim and follow the red-marked trail, which passes banana groves along the route.[4]