The kibbutz was established in 1926 by members of the Gdud HaAvoda labor brigade . Their goal was to settle in Jerusalem and earn their livelihood from manual labor , working in such trades as stonecutting , housing construction and haulage . After living in a temporary camp in Jerusalem , a group of ten pioneers settled on a stony plot of land on an 803-metre high hill south of the city . The kibbutz was destroyed by the Arabs in the riots of 1929 . Hundreds of Arabs attacked the training farm and burned it to the ground . The settlers returned to the site a year later . According to a census conducted in 1931 by the British Mandate authorities , Ramat Rachel had a population of 131 , in 45 houses
riots of 1929
1929 Palestine riots
Ramat Rachel