The Hefer Valley Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית עמק חפר, ''Mo'atza Azorit Emek Hefer'') is a
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in the Hefer Valley region of the
Sharon plain
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in
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Israel
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. It is named after an administrative district in this area in the time of
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The council covers an area adjacent to
Hadera
Hadera ( he, חֲדֵרָה ) is a city located in the Haifa District of Israel, in the northern Sharon region, approximately 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the major cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. The city is located along 7 km (5&nb ...
in the north, to
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 ...
in the south, to the
Mediterranean
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in the west and to
Tulkarm
Tulkarm, Tulkarem or Tull Keram ( ar, طولكرم, ''Ṭūlkarm'') is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, located in the Tulkarm Governorate of the State of Palestine. The Israeli city of Netanya is to the west, and the Palestinian cities of ...
and the
Green Line in the east. As of December 2020, the jurisdiction area of the council has a population of about 42,600 people.
The Regional Council offices are located near
Kfar Monash
Kfar Monash (, ''lit.'' Monash Village) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the northern part of the Sharon plain and covering 2,700 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . T ...
, at the Ruppin junction, next to the
Ruppin Academic Center.
History
The region of Emek Hefer covers an area known to its former Palestinian inhabitants as
Wadi al-Hawarith [Gabriel Piterberg,''The Returns of Zionism Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel,'' ]Verso Books
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2008 p.ix;'I grew up in an affluent part of Israel which is strewn with labour Zionist cooperative settlements. The region is called Emeq Hefer. What I came to realize was that underneath Emeq Hefer layy — erased and buried - Wadi Hawarith; and that my joyful and privileged childhood and young adulthood in Emeq Hefer were inextricably intertwined with the destruction of Wadi Hawarith and the removal of its previous inhabitants.
In the early 1900s, a local midwife, Olga Hankin, reported information about the economic state of the families in the region to her husband,
Yehoshua Hankin
Yehoshua Hankin ( he, יהושע חנקין, 1864 – 11 November 1945) was a Zionist activist who was responsible for most of the major land purchases of the Zionist Organization in Ottoman Palestine and Mandatory Palestine – in particular fo ...
, who was in charge of land purchase for the Jewish National Fund. In 1927 Yehoshua Hankin resolved the complex legal issues involved in purchasing the land, and signed an agreement for the purchase of the Hefer Valley. The only difficulty was that the
Jewish National Fund did not have sufficient funds to pay the sum needed for buying the land.
The chairman of the JNF,
Menachem Ussishkin
Menachem Ussishkin (russian: Авраам Менахем Мендл Усышкин ''Avraham Menachem Mendel Ussishkin'', he, מנחם אוסישקין) (August 14, 1863 – October 2, 1941) was a Russian-born Zionist leader and head of the J ...
, set out on a fundraising trip to
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, returning with $300,000 and undertakings to bring it up to a million, the sum required to purchase the Hefer Valley over a period of seven years. At the
Zionist Congress
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held in
Zurich in 1929, Ussishkin announced that Emek Hefer was now in Jewish hands.
A group of 20 young members of the "Vitkin" and "Haemek" ('the valley') movements settled in the newly purchased valley. They moved into an abandoned building and began draining the swamps and preparing the land for agriculture.
In April 1933, they built their first houses at
Kfar Vitkin
Kfar Vitkin ( he, כְּפַר וִיתְקִין, ''lit.'' Vitkin Village) is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council and was the first Jewish settlement in the valley. I ...
, in the heart of the valley. In 1931, a group from the
Hashomer Hatzair
Hashomer Hatzair ( he, הַשׁוֹמֵר הַצָעִיר, , ''The Young Guard'') is a Labor Zionist, secular Jewish youth movement founded in 1913 in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary, and it was also the name of the gro ...
movement in
Hadera
Hadera ( he, חֲדֵרָה ) is a city located in the Haifa District of Israel, in the northern Sharon region, approximately 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the major cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. The city is located along 7 km (5&nb ...
established the settlement of
Ein HaHoresh, planting the first citrus grove.
A company called "Yachin" prepared plantations for settlers from abroad. Another group from the
Kibbutz HaMeuhad movement, founded
Givat Haim
Givat Haim ( he, גִּבְעַת חַיִּים, , Haim Hill) was a kibbutz located around five kilometres south of Hadera in Israel. It split along ideological lines in 1952, creating two new kibbutzim, Givat Haim (Meuhad) and Givat Haim (Ihud ...
in 1932, while the organization of demobilized soldiers from the
Jewish Brigade
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set up the settlement of
Avihayil.
Ruppin Academic Center was established in the region in 1949.
List of settlements
Kibbutzim
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Bahan
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Ein HaHoresh
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Givat Haim (Ihud)
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Givat Haim (Meuhad)
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HaMa'apil
HaMa'apil ( he, הַמַּעְפִּיל, ''lit.'' The illegal immigrant) is a kibbutz in central Israel. It is located near Ahituv within the jurisdiction of the Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The communit ...
*
HaOgen
HaOgen ( he, העוגן, הָעֹגֶן, ''lit.'' anchor) is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek Hefer Regional Council and is affiliated with Hashomer Hatzair. In it had a populatio ...
*
Ma'abarot
Ma'abarot ( he, מַעְבָּרוֹת) were immigrant and refugee absorption camps established in Israel in the 1950s, constituting one of the largest public projects planned by the state to implement its sociospatial and housing policies.
T ...
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Mishmar HaSharon
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Yad Hana
Moshavim
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Ahituv
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Avihayil
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Be'erotayim
Be'erotayim ( he, בארותיים or בְּאֵרוֹתַיִם) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain and covering 3,500 dunam
A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or ...
*
Beit HaLevi
Beit HaLevi ( he, בֵּית הַלֵּוִי, ''lit.'' House of the Levite) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Netanya
Netanya (also known as Natanya, he, נְתַנְיָה) is a city in the Northern Cent ...
*
Beit Herut
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Beit Yanai
Beit Yanai ( he, בֵּית יַנַּאי, lit. ''House of Yanai'') is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea around six kilometres north of Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer ...
*
Beit Yitzhak-Sha'ar Hefer
Beit Yitzhak-Sha'ar Hefer ( he, בֵּית יִצְחָק-שַׁעַר חֵפֶר, lit. ''House of Isaac - Hefer Gate'') is a moshav in central Israel Located in the Sharon plain near Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley ...
*
Beitan Aharon
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Burgata
Burgata ( he, בורגתה, בּוּרְגְתָא), also Burgeta, is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain on Highway 57 between Netanya and Tulkarm, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it h ...
*
Eliashiv
Elyashiv (, ''lit.'' God will bring back) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The moshav was founded on a site once o ...
*
Elyakhin
Elyakhin ( he, אֶלְיָכִין) is a town and local council in the Central District of Israel. Located just south of Hadera and bordering the Emek Hefer Regional Council, it is accessible by local road 5812. With a jurisdiction of 1,600 d ...
*
Gan Yoshiya
Gan Yoshiya ( he, גַּן יֹאשִׁיָּה, lit. ''Josiah's Garden'') is a moshav in central Israel. Located near the Green Line in the Tulkarm area, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a populatio ...
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Geulei Teiman
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Givat Shapira
Givat Shapira ( he, גִּבְעַת שַׁפִּירָא, ''lit.'' Shapiro Hill) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a populati ...
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Hadar Am
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Haniel
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Havatzelet HaSharon
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Herev Le'et
Herev Le'et ( he, חֶרֶב לְאֵת, lit. ''Sword to Plowshare'') is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain to the south of Hadera and covering 1,750 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Counci ...
*
Hibat Tzion
Hibat Tzion ( he, חִבַּת צִיּוֹן, , Fondness for Zion) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain near Hadera and covering 4,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had ...
*
Hogla
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Kfar Haim
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Kfar Haroeh
Kfar Haroeh ( he, כְּפַר הָרֹאֶ"ה, ''lit.'' Haroeh Village) is a religious moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain between Hadera and Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it ha ...
*
Kfar Monash
Kfar Monash (, ''lit.'' Monash Village) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the northern part of the Sharon plain and covering 2,700 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . T ...
*
Kfar Vitkin
Kfar Vitkin ( he, כְּפַר וִיתְקִין, ''lit.'' Vitkin Village) is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council and was the first Jewish settlement in the valley. I ...
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Kfar Yedidia
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Mikhmoret
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Olesh
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Ometz
Community settlements
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Bat Hen
Bat Hen ( he, בת חן, lit. ''Daughter of Grace'') is a community settlement in central Israel. Located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council
The Hefer Valley Regional Counc ...
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Bat Hefer
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Beit Hazon
Beit Hazon ( he, בֵּית חָזוֹן, lit. ''Hazon House'') is a predominantly English-speaking neighbourhood of Kfar Haroeh in central Israel.
History
The neighbourhood was formed by a group of immigrants from England, South Africa and the ...
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Hofit
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Shoshanat HaAmakim
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Tzukei Yam
Tzukei Yam ( he, צוּקֵי יָם, ''lit.'' Sea Cliffs) is a community settlement in central Israel. Located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea to the north of Netanya
Netanya (also known as Natanya, he, נְתַנְיָה) is a cit ...
Youth villages
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Hadassah Neurim
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Mevo'ot Yam
References
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