Kfar Azar ( he, כְּפַר אֲזָ"ר) 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 ...
ovdim located in the
Ono Valley
ONO, Ono or Ōno may refer to:
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* Ono Island (Fiji)
Israel
* Kiryat Ono
* Ono, Benjamin, ancient site
Italy
* Ono San Pietro
Ivory Coast
* Ono, Ivory Coast, a village in Comoé District
Japan
* Ōno Castle, Fukuoka
* � ...
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 ...
. Previously part of
Ef'al Regional Council Ef'al was a regional council in Israel, in the Tel Aviv District which existed from 1950 until 2008 when it was liquidated and most of its area was annexed to the neighbouring cities of Ramat Gan, Kiryat Ono, and Or Yehuda.
Ramat Pinkas was trans ...
, in 2007 it was transferred to the municipality of
Ramat Gan
Ramat Gan ( he, רָמַת גַּן or , ) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, located east of the municipality of Tel Aviv and part of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. It is home to one of the world's major diamond exchanges, and man ...
together with
Ramat Ef'al. With an area of around , its population is around 500.
The moshav was established in December 1932 by two pioneer groups, Brenner and Ma'ash. Land was purchased adjacent to the Arab village
al-Khayriyya, and was later supplemented by more land bought by the
Jewish National Fund. The name "Azar" was given to the moshav as an acronym for Alexander Ziskind Rabinovitz, a Jewish Russian writer.
The population at the end of 1951 was 375.
[State of Israel, Government Year-Book 5713 (1952), p. X]
Notable people
*
Yoram Tsafrir
Yoram Tsafrir ( he, יורם צפריר; 30 January 1938 – 23 November 2015) was an Israeli archaeologist. His research has included the Byzantine influence on ancient synagogues, demography of Palestine in the Byzantine period, mosaics at Ho ...
, archaeologist
References
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Populated places established in 1932
Moshavim
Ramat Gan