Kfar Daniel

Kfar Daniel
כְּפַר דָּנִיֵּאל‬
Kfar Daniel
Coordinates: 31°55′58.79″N 34°56′1.67″E / 31.9329972°N 34.9337972°E / 31.9329972; 34.9337972Coordinates: 31°55′58.79″N 34°56′1.67″E / 31.9329972°N 34.9337972°E / 31.9329972; 34.9337972
District Central
Council Hevel Modi'in
Affiliation Kibbutz Movement
Founded 9 October 1949
Founded by Mahalniks
Population (2017)[1] 725

Kfar Daniel (Hebrew: כְּפַר דָּנִיֵּאל‬, lit. Daniel Village) is a moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located around four kilometres south-east of Lod and covering 2,900 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In 2017 it had a population of 725.[1]

History

The village was established on 9 October 1949 by Mahalniks (Jewish World War II veterans) from English-speaking countries on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Daniyal.[2][3] It was initially called Irgun Beit Hever after the organisation which the founders were members of, but was later renamed in honour of Daniel Frish, a president of the Zionist Organization of America who died in the year the village was established.[4]

The nearby Daniel Interchange connecting Highway 1 and Highway 6 is named after the village.

References

  1. 1 2 "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 374. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  3. ↑ Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. p. xxi settlement #73. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
  4. ↑ How we learned to forget the villages we destroyed 972 Mag, 16 October 2016
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