Kfar Yedidia () 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

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on the

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. With an area of 3,000

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

Hefer Valley Regional Council The Hefer Valley Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Emek Hefer'') is a regional council in the Sharon region of the Central District of Israel. It is named after an administrative district in this area in the time of King Solomon (). The co ...

. In it had a population of .

History

Kfar Yedidia was planned by

Richard Kauffmann Richard Kauffmann (1887–1958) was a German-Jewish architect who migrated to Israel (region), Palestine in 1920. His architecture was influenced by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a proponent of the International Style, and was applied to the local l ...

. It was founded on 9 April 1935 by

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from

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. Funding came from Jews in

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. The place was named for

Philo of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria (; ; ; ), also called , was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt. The only event in Philo's life that can be decisively dated is his representation of the Alexandrian Je ...

, known in Hebrew as Yedidia. File:כפר ידידיה - הבניינים הראשונים בכפר ידידיה-JNF027250.jpeg, Kfar Yedidia first houses 1935 File:כפר ידידיה - מראה-JNF037041.jpeg, Kfar Yedidia 1937 File:Qaqun 1939.jpg, Kfar Yedidia (Kefar Yedidya) 1939 1:20,000 File:Qaqun 1945.jpg, Kfar Yedidia (Yedidya) 1945 1:250,000

References

{{Authority control German-Jewish culture in Israel Moshavim Populated places established in 1935 Populated places in Central District (Israel) 1935 establishments in Mandatory Palestine