Kfar Haim ( he, כְּפַר חַיִּים, ''lit.'' Haim Village) is a

moshav A moshav ( he, מוֹשָׁב, plural ', lit. ''settlement, village'') is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 ...

in central

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. Located in the

coastal plain A coastal plain is flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast. A fall line commonly marks the border between a coastal plain and a piedmont area. Some of the largest coastal plains are in Alaska and the southeastern United States. The Gulf Co ...

near

Netanya Netanya (also known as Natanya, he, נְתַנְיָה) is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa, between Poleg stream and Wingate ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Hefer Valley Regional Council The Hefer Valley Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית עמק חפר, ''Mo'atza Azorit Emek Hefer'') is a regional council in the Hefer Valley region of the Sharon plain in central Israel. It is named after an administrative district in ...

. In it had a population of .

History

The moshav was founded on 16 June 1933 by Jewish immigrants from

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 mill ...

and

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eigh ...

, and was named after

Haim Arlosoroff Haim Arlosoroff (February 23, 1899 – June 16, 1933; also known as Chaim Arlozorov; he, חיים ארלוזורוב) was a Socialist Zionist leader of the Yishuv during the British Mandate for Palestine, prior to the establishment of Isr ...

, who was assassinated on the day it was founded. File:Qaqun 1939.jpg, Kfar Haim (Kefar Haiyim) 1939 1:20,000 File:כפר חיים - מראה כללי-JNF007107.jpeg, Kfar Haim 1940 File:Qaqun 1945.jpg, Kfar Haim (Kefar Haiyim) 1945 1:250,000 File:כפר חיים - מראה-JNF027243.jpeg, Kfar Haim 1947

References

{{Hefer Valley Regional Council Moshavim Populated places established in 1933 1933 establishments in Mandatory Palestine Populated places in Central District (Israel) Polish-Jewish culture in Israel Russian-Jewish culture in Israel