Kfar Ahim
| Kfar Ahim | |
|---|---|
  Kfar Ahim | |
| Coordinates: 31°44′40.55″N 34°45′27″E / 31.7445972°N 34.75750°ECoordinates: 31°44′40.55″N 34°45′27″E / 31.7445972°N 34.75750°E | |
| District | Southern |
| Council | Be'er Tuvia |
| Affiliation | Moshavim Movement |
| Founded | 1949 |
| Founded by | Polish and Romanian refugees |
| Population (2015)[1] | 795 |
Kfar Ahim (Hebrew: כְּפַר אַחִים, lit. Village of Brothers) is a moshav in south-central Israel. Located near Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 795.
History
The moshav was founded in 1949 by refugees from Poland and Romania on the land belonging to the depopulated Arab village of Qastina,[2] and was named for two brothers, Zvi and Efraim Guber, sons of Mordecai and Rivka Guber, from the nearby moshav of Kfar Warburg, who were killed during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.[3]
Notable natives of Kfar Ahim include Benjamin Gantz, Israel's Chief of the General Staff, and Knesset member and the current Minister of Transport, Yisrael Katz.
References
- ↑ "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ↑ Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, p. 131, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
- ↑ Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Yuval El'azari (ed.). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. 2005. p. 282. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.
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