Kfar HaHoresh

Place in Northern, Israel

32°42′8″N 35°16′27″E / 32.70222°N 35.27417°E / 32.70222; 35.27417Country

IsraelDistrictNorthernCouncilJezreel ValleyAffiliationKibbutz MovementFounded1933Founded byGordonia membersPopulation

(2022)^[1]

767Websitewww.k-h.org.il

Kfar HaHoresh (Hebrew: כְּפַר הַחֹרֶשׁ, כפר החורש, lit. 'Village of the Thicket') is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near Nazareth, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 767.^[1]

History

The kibbutz was established in 1933 by members of the Gordonia youth movement who had previously been living in Ness Ziona. The land had been bought by the Jewish National Fund in 1930. Today the kibbutz has been privatized. The Arabic-language radio station Radio A-Shams broadcasts from the kibbutz.

The Kfar HaHoresh forest includes the remains of Ma'alul village, a depopulated Palestinian location.^[2]

A nearby archaeological site dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period has been under excavation since the early 1990s.^[3]

Kfar HaHoresh celebrating tree planting 1936
Kfar HaHoresh 1936
Kfar HaHoresh 1939

Sport

The kibbutz fielded a football team, which competed in Liga Meuhedet in 1949–50; the team finished eighth in the league's North Division.

Notable people

Ephraim Kishon

References

^ ^a ^b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
^ Ḳadman, Nogah; Yiftachel, Oren; Ḳadman, Nogah (2015). Erased from space and consciousness: Israel and the depopulated Palestinian villages of 1948. Translated by Reider, Dimi. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01670-6.
^ "The 2007–8 excavation seasons at Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Kfar HaHoresh, Israel". Antiquity. 82 (318). Durham University. December 2008. Archived from the original on September 15, 2016.