Kfar Yehezkel

Kfar Yehezkel
כְּפַר יְחֶזְקֵאל‬
Kfar Yehezkel
Coordinates: 32°34′1.91″N 35°21′32.4″E / 32.5671972°N 35.359000°E / 32.5671972; 35.359000Coordinates: 32°34′1.91″N 35°21′32.4″E / 32.5671972°N 35.359000°E / 32.5671972; 35.359000
District Northern
Council Gilboa
Affiliation Moshavim Movement
Founded 16 December 1921
Founded by Second Aliyah pioneers
Population (2017)[1] 1,176
Name meaning Yehezkel Village

Kfar Yehezkel (Hebrew: כְּפַר יְחֶזְקֵאל‬, lit. Yehezkel Village) is a moshav ovdim in northern Israel. Located in the Jezreel Valley, six kilometres southeast of Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. In 2017 the moshav had a population of 1,176.[1]

History

Kfar Yehezkel, 1937-1938

Kfar Yehezkel was founded on 16 December 1921 by pioneers of the Second Aliyah.[2] Settlers from Tel Hai and Hamara, which was evacuated because of Arab attacks from Lebanon, were also among the founding members. It was the second moshav ovdim in Palestine, after Nahalal.[3]

Originally called Ayn Tib'un after the nearby spring, it was renamed in honor of Sassoon Eskell (Yehezkel Sassoon) of the Sassoon family, an Iraqi-Jewish statesman and philanthropist.[4] The driver of the moshav was injured in 1936 during a spate of gang violence.[5]

Architectural master plan

Kfar Yehezkel's general layout was designed by Richard Kauffmann at about the same time as he drew the plans for the better-known Nahalal settlement. Similarly, it grouped the public buildings at the centre with several residential buildings surrounding them along an inner ring road, with individual plots of agricultural land radiating outwards between straight roads, and additional housing along these roads. The geometrical symmetry of the initial settlement was less stringent than was the case with Nahalal, also due to the semicircular shape of the plateau at the centre of the village.[6]

Notable residents

References

  1. 1 2 "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ Family Affair: The Broidas, Kfar Yehezkel Haaretz, 16 April 2009
  3. ↑ The Industrial Geography of Israel
  4. ↑ Kfar Yehezkel Jewish Agency for Israel
  5. ↑ The Letters of Martin Buber
  6. ↑ Richard Kauffmann, Die Bebauungsplaene der Kleinsiedlungen Kfar-Nahalal und Kfar-Jecheskiel ('The construction plans for the agricultural small housing estates Kfar Nahalal and Kfar Yehezkel|Kfar Jecheskiel'), published by the Department for Agricultural Colonization of the Zionist Executive, Jerusalem (1923), in German.

Further reading

  • HaReuveni, Immanuel (1999). Lexicon of the Land of Israel (in Hebrew). Miskal - Yedioth Ahronoth Books and Chemed Books. p. 505. ISBN 965-448-413-7.
  • Yuval Elezri (ed) - Lexicon Mapa - Eretz Israel - Map's Concise Gazetteer of Israel Today 2003 Tel Aviv MAP Mapping and Publishing (in Hebrew)
  • On Sabbath Eve Satan Came to Kfar Yehezkel: The Conflict over the Establishment of a Synagogue in a Socialist Village
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