Kfar Haroeh

Moshav in central Israel

Place in Central, Israel

Kfar Haroeh 32°23′27″N 34°54′44″E / 32.39083°N 34.91222°E / 32.39083; 34.91222
Country	Israel
District	Central
Council	Hefer Valley
Affiliation	Hapoel HaMizrachi
Founded	23 November 1933
Founded by	European immigrants
Population (2022)^[1]	1,438

Kfar Haroeh (Hebrew: כְּפַר הָרֹאֶ"ה, lit. 'Haroeh Village') is a religious moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain between Hadera and Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 1,438.^[1]

History

In 1929 the Jewish National Fund bought 30,800 dunums of land from absentee landlords of the Arab village of Wadi al-Hawarith at an auction. After purchasing the land the JNF began the process of evicting the tenants of the land, a process that was complete by 1933.^[2] Kfar Haroeh was established on 23 November that year and named for Abraham Isaac Kook, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Mandatory Palestine. "Haroeh" is an acronym for HaRav Avraham HaCohen Kook. The founders were religious Jews who immigrated from Europe.

A yeshiva in the moshav was founded by Rabbi Moshe-Zvi Neria.^[3] This was the forerunner of the numerous Mamlachti dati Torah high schools associated with Bnei Akiva.

Beit Hazon, initially a neighborhood of Kfar Haroeh, is now regarded as a separate community settlement.

Kfar Haroeh 1939
Kfar Haroeh 1939
Kfar Haroeh 1943
Kfar Haroeh 1945
Kfar Haroeh 1945

References

^ ^a ^b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
^ "Welcome To Wadi al-Hawarith - وادي الحوارث (ואדי אל-חוארת')". Palestine Remembered.
^ From starvation in Auschwitz to pomegranates in Kfar Haroeh