Shfayim
Shefayim (, ''lit.'' High Hills) is a kibbutz in central Israel located 2.5 miles north of Herzliya along the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast. Shefayim falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Kibbutz Shefayim was established in 1935 by aliyah, Jewish immigrants from Poland. The name is taken from the Book of Isaiah: "I will open rivers in high hills." During the Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate for Palestine, Shefayim was a base for Aliyah Bet, clandestine immigration. In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, it absorbed refugees from the abandoned kibbutz Beit HaArava near the Dead Sea. In the early 1970s, the kibbutz established Polycad, a plastics factory. In the early 1980s, it established the Shafit biotechnology plant. In the mid-1990s, it acquired the Zirei Israel plant, which has become a leader in the Israeli Cotton gin, cotton-ginning industry. In 2012 IBM acquired New York- and Shefayim-based Mobile appl ...
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