Kfar Hoshen (), also known as Safsufa (ספסופה), 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 northern Israel. Located around four kilometres north of Meron, it falls under the jurisdiction of

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. In it had a population of .

History

The moshav was founded in 1949 by immigrants to Israel from

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and with the support of the

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. The land had previously belonged to the

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village of Safsaf, whose residents fled to

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after the Safsaf massacre in October 1948 during the

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. The population was added in early years of the state by Jewish immigrants from

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and

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, and starting in 1953 immigrants from

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and

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also came. The original name "Safsufa" is based on an identical name found in the

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, whose name is preserved in the village Safsaf; the Hebrew word "Safsaf" means an area where fruits ripen later than usual.Hareuveni, Imanuel (2010).
Eretz Israel Lexicon
' (in Hebrew). Matach. p. 724. The residents work in agriculture and tourism.

Notable residents

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References

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