Kfar Hess () is a

moshav A moshav (, plural ', "settlement, village") is a type of Israeli village or town or Jewish settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 and 1 ...

in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain to the south-east of

Tel Mond Tel Mond () is a town in the Sharon region of Israel, located east of Netanya and north of Kfar Saba. In it had a population of .. History Tel Mond was founded on 16 June 1929 by Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett. Lord Melchett was a British in ...

and covering 3,800

dunam A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; ; ; ), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area analogous in role (but not equal) to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amo ...

s, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Lev HaSharon Regional Council Lev HaSharon Regional Council () is a regional council in the Sharon region of the Central District of Israel. History The council was established in 1984, unifying Hadar HaSharon and Northern Sharon regional councils, and covers 18 villages wi ...

. In it had a population of .

History

The village was founded in 1931 as part of the

Settlement of the Thousand The Settlement of the Thousand (, ''Hityashvut HaElef'') refers to two separate Zionist plans to settle Jewish families on farms in Mandate Palestine. The first started in September 1926,Herut Herut () was the major conservative nationalist political party in Israel from 1948 until its formal merger into Likud in 1988. It was an adherent of Revisionist Zionism. Some of their policies were compared to those of the Nazi party. Early y ...

Ein Vered Ein Vered () is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lev HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Before the 20th century the area formed part of the Forest of Sharon ...

and Kfar Ziv, it formed part of ''Gush Tel Mond'' (lit. ''Tel Mond Bloc''). It was named after

Moses Hess Moses (Moritz) Hess (21 January 1812 – 6 April 1875) was a German-Jewish philosopher, early socialist and Zionist thinker. His theories led to disagreements with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. He is considered a pioneer of Labor Zionism. Bi ...

, a secular Jewish philosopher and one of the founders of

socialism Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes ...

and

Labour Zionist Labor Zionism () or socialist Zionism () is the left-wing, socialist variant of Zionism. For many years, it was the most significant tendency among Zionists and Zionist organizations, and was seen as the Zionist faction of the historic Jewish ...

thought.Hareuveni, Imanuel (2010).
Eretz Israel Lexicon
' (in Hebrew). Matach. p.498. The founding group was organized under the Izrael organization, that was meant to establish a moshav on land bought from the village of Zarin in the outskirts of the

Jezreel Valley The Jezreel Valley (from the ), or Marj Ibn Amir (), also known as the Valley of Megiddo, is a large fertile plain and inland valley in the Northern District (Israel), Northern District of Israel. It is bordered to the north by the highlands o ...

, near

Kfar Yehezkel Kfar Yehezkel (, ''lit.'' Yehezkel Village) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Jezreel Valley, six kilometres southeast of Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. In the moshav had a population of . History ...

. The idea for creating the new organization was conceived by the agricultural workers and

Zionist Zionism is an Ethnic nationalism, ethnocultural nationalist movement that emerged in History of Europe#From revolution to imperialism (1789–1914), Europe in the late 19th century that aimed to establish and maintain a national home for the ...

pioneers, Nisan Boord and Mordechai Te'eni. File:כפר הס - הלול והרפת.-JNF037088.jpeg, Kfar Hess in 1937 File:Et Tire 1942.jpg, Kfar Hess (Kefar Hess) in 1942 (1:20,000) File:Qalqilya 1945.jpg, Kfar Hess (Kefar Hess) in 1945 (1:250,000)

Notable residents

* Giora Eiland, retired general *

Ram Rothberg Aluf Ram Rothberg (; born February 5, 1964) is a retired admiral in the Israel Defense Forces who was the head of the Israel Navy. Service history Rothberg commanded the Shayetet 13 special forces unit from 2001 to 2004 and presided over some of ...

, retired admiral

References

External links

Village website
{{Authority control Moshavim Populated places established in 1931 1931 establishments in Mandatory Palestine Populated places in Central District (Israel)