Kfar Daniel
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 2018 it had a population of 715.[1]
Kfar Daniel כְּפַר דָּנִיֵּאל | |
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  Kfar Daniel | |
| Coordinates: 31°55′58.79″N 34°56′1.67″E | |
| Country | Israel |
| District | Central |
| Council | Hevel Modi'in |
| Affiliation | Kibbutz Movement |
| Founded | 9 October 1949 |
| Founded by | Mahalniks |
| Population (2018)[1] | 715 |
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
- "Population in the Localities 2018" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 25 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- 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.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. xxi settlement #73. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
- How we learned to forget the villages we destroyed 972 Mag, 16 October 2016