Kfar Hananya

Kfar Hananya
כְּפַר חֲנַנְיָה‬
Kfar Hananya as seen from Kh. Abu esh-Sheba (Bersabe)
Kfar Hananya
Coordinates: 32°54′56.52″N 35°25′21.36″E / 32.9157000°N 35.4226000°E / 32.9157000; 35.4226000Coordinates: 32°54′56.52″N 35°25′21.36″E / 32.9157000°N 35.4226000°E / 32.9157000; 35.4226000
District Northern
Council Merom HaGalil
Affiliation Hapoel HaMizrachi
Founded 1977
Founded by Hapoel HaMizrachi
Population (2017)[1] 742
Name meaning Hananya village

Kfar Hananya (Hebrew: כְּפַר חֲנַנְיָה‬) is a community settlement in the Galilee in northern Israel. It belongs to the Merom HaGalil Regional Council. In 2017 it had a population of 742.[1]

The village marks the border between the historic Upper and Lower Galilee regions. Lower Galilee is defined in the Mishnah (Shevi'it 9:2) as the area south of Kfar Hananya where the Sycamore Fig tree grows (Ficus sycomorus).

Name

The village is named after the ancient village of the same name, a little further to its north (now a ruin), which is mentioned in the Mishnah as a community on the border between the Lower Galilee and Upper Galilee.

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History

Kfar Hananya was founded in 1977 as a moshav of the movement Hapoel HaMizrachi for members of nearby moshavim, built near the older Arab village which formerly bore the same name, Kafr 'Inan. In 1992 it became a community settlement. A new neighborhood built in the 2000s is called "Maale Hen" (מעלה חן).

Landmarks

Near the community is a burial place attributed to Rabbi Hananya ben Akashya.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ Mordechai Aviam and Peter Richardson (2003). Josephus' Galilee in Archaeological Perspective. Flavius Josephus: Life of Josephus, translated and commented by Steve Mason, Appendix A. Brill. ISBN 9780391042056. Retrieved 25 May 2018. The border between Upper and Lower Galilee mentioned by the Mishnah is at Kefar Hananiah, but Josephus locates the border at Bersabe, which he uses as a reference point for his list of border towns (Life 188). The two sites are located side by side within a distance of less than a kilometer, at the eastern end of the Beth Kerem valley.
  3. ↑ The Mishnah (ed. Herbert Danby), Oxford University Press: Oxford 1933, s.v. Tractate Shebiit 9:2
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