Kfar Tavor

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Kfar Tavor
  • <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />כְּפַר תַּבוֹר
  • كفر تافور
Watchmen's Square in Kfar Tavor
Watchmen's Square in Kfar Tavor
Official logo of Kfar Tavor
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Kfar Tavor is located in Israel
Kfar Tavor
Kfar Tavor
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Grid position 189/232 PAL
District Northern
Founded 1901
Government
 • Type Local council (from 1949)
 • Head of Municipality Yosef Dola
Area
 • Total 1,231 dunams (1.231 km2 or 304 acres)
Population (2008)[1]
 • Total 2,700

Kfar Tavor (Hebrew: <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />כְּפַר תַּבוֹר‎) is a village in the Lower Galilee region of Northern Israel, at the foot of Mount Tabor. Founded in 1901, it was awarded local council status in 1949. In 2008, Kfar Tavor had a population of 2,700.

History

Ottoman era

In the Ottoman era was here a village called Mes'ha.[2] It appeared as Mechi on the map Pierre Jacotin compiled in 1799.[3]

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described "Meshah" village with a population of 100 Muslims, with houses chiefly of basalt stone, and a few of adobe and stone. The village was situated on an arable plain, without trees. The water supply was from a cistern in the village.[4]

Kfar Tavor was established in 1901 by pioneers of the First Aliya under the auspices of the Jewish Colonization Association.[5] Twenty-eight farmers settled in the area with the assistance of the philanthropist Baron Edmond de Rothschild. The new settlement was originally known as Mes'ha, the name of the nearby Arab village. It was renamed in 1903 at the urging of Zionist leader Menachem Ussishkin who visited the site and was surprised to find it had no Hebrew name.[6] At first, there was some debate over whether to use the term kfar ("village"), which some residents thought would bode badly for future growth. Ussishkin responded that he had visited the German town of Düsseldorf, which had also originated as a Dorf, or village, but was now a full-fledged city. The Rothschild administration determined that the site was ideal for cultivating grapes. The vineyards of Kfar Tavor became a supplier of grapes to the country's wineries.[citation needed]

British Mandate era

Kfar Tavor History Museum

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Mesha (Kufr Tabur) had a population of 274; all Jews.[7]

In 1945 Kfar Tavor had 230 inhabitants, all Jews. Mas-ha was noted as an alternative name.[8][9]

Landmarks

In the Hameyasdim neighborhood, the core of the village, there is a museum and other sites, including the HaShomer house, the first school and teacher's house (now a library) and a synagogue that was built in 1937. Another school, built in 1911, now serves as the Shenkar Tzfira Music Center. The main street of the neighborhood has houses left from the village's early days, as well as parts of the wall that surrounded it.[6]

Notable residents

Major General Yigal Allon (1948–49)

References

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  2. "The place of unction", according to Palmer, 1881, p. 131
  3. Karmon, 1960, p. 167
  4. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 361
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  6. 6.0 6.1 http://www.hooha.co.il/place_english.htm
  7. Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tiberias, p. 39
  8. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 8
  9. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 62

Bibliography

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