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 northern
Israel
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. Located adjacent to
Mount Tabor
Mount Tabor ( ; ; ), sometimes spelled Mount Thabor, is a large hill of biblical significance in Lower Galilee, Northern District (Israel), northern Israel, at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley, west of the Sea of Galilee.
In the Hebrew Bi ...
, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Lower Galilee Regional Council
The Lower Galilee Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit HaGalil HaTahton'') is a regional council in the Northern District of Israel. Lower Galilee Regional Council encompasses most of the settlements in the Lower Galilee with a population of 11, ...
.
In it had a population of .
History
It was established in 1946 by
Jew
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ish soldiers demobilised from the
British Army
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after
World War II
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having served under
Frederick Kisch
Frederick Hermann Kisch, (23 August 1888 – 7 April 1943) was a decorated British Army officer and Zionist leader. A Brigadier, he was the highest ranking Jew to serve in the British Army.Tabor stream without proper equipment added to the problems, and until 1953 a steady stream of founding residents left the village. In that year conditions improved and Kfar Kisch began to absorb Jewish immigrants from
Poland
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,
Hungary
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, and the
Soviet Union
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. Part of the village's land formerly belonged to the depopulated
Palestinian
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*: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...
village of
Ma'dhar
Ma'dhar was a Palestinian village in the Tiberias Subdistrict.
In the late 19th century, Ma'dhar was settled by Algerian migrants from Oued El Berdi and Bouïra under the Ottoman Empire.
The village was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civi ...
, south of the old village site.
File:כפר קיש - ביום העליה לכפר קיש, מושב שתופי לחיילים משוחררים. הערבים מהסביבה הקרובה באים להשתתף בשמחת -JNF027958.jpeg, Kfar Kisch founding ceremony 18 July 1946
File:כפר קיש - ביום העליה לכפר קיש, מושב שתופי לחיילים משוחררים. באופק הר תבור.-JNF027962.jpeg, Kfar Kisch
File:כפר קיש - ביום העליה לכפר קיש, מושב שתופי לחיילים משוחררים. הקמת הצריפים הראשונים.-JNF027954.jpeg, Kfar Kisch first barracks
File:כפר קיש - ביום העליה על אדמת כפר קיש, מושב שיתופי לחיילים משוחררים-JNF034037.jpeg, Kfar Kisch
File:כפר קיש - מראה כללי, באופק הר תבור-JNF034039.jpeg, Kfar Kisch