Kfar Aviv

Moshav in central Israel

Place in Central, Israel

Kfar Aviv 31°49′53″N 34°43′17″E / 31.83139°N 34.72139°E / 31.83139; 34.72139
Country	Israel
District	Central
Council	Gederot
Affiliation	Agricultural Union
Founded	1951
Founded by	Egyptian Jewish immigrants and refugees
Population (2022)^[1]	833

Kfar Aviv (Hebrew: כְּפַר אָבִיב, lit. Village of Spring) is a moshav in the Central District of Israel, near Ashdod. It belongs to the Gederot Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 833.^[1]

History

Kfar Aviv was founded in 1952 by the Jewish Agency on the lands of the Palestinian village of Yibna.^[2] The settlement was intended to absorb Jewish immigrants and refugees from Egypt. Its original name was Kfar HaYeor (Hebrew: כפר היאור; lit. Village of the Nile). The name "Kfar Aviv" was given as a reference to the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt, which occurred in spring as recorded in the Torah (Exodus 34:18). As time passed, the village absorbed families from Poland.^[3]

The land area used for farming covers about 2,000 dunams. Most inhabitants of the village work elsewhere.^[4]

References

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^ ^a ^b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
^ Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 423. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
^ El'azari, Yuval, ed. (2005). Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. p. 282. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.
^ "Kfar Aviv". Gderot.com (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 2010-06-25. Retrieved 2008-06-08.