Kfar Maimon () is a religious moshav in southern

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. Located near Netivot and covering 5,000

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 Sdot Negev Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History

The village was established in 1959 with the assistance of Jewish Colonisation Association by a gar'in of Bnei Akiva members and was named after Yehuda Leib Maimon, a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence and the first Minister of Religions. In 2005 the village was the site of a non-violent standoff between tens of thousands of protesters against the Gaza disengagement plan, with police encircling the protesters who had started in Netivot to stop them from continuing their march to Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip. The mass influx of demonstrators overloaded mobile telephone and other services in the small agricultural village. "Lycée Thorani" (lit. 'Torah-based High School'), a bilingual (Hebrew and French) high school, is based in the village.

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{{Authority control Moshavim Religious Israeli communities Populated places established in 1959 Gaza envelope Populated places in Southern District (Israel) 1959 establishments in Israel