Kerem Maharal

Kerem Maharal (Hebrew: כֶּרֶם מַהֲרַ"ל‎, lit. Maharal Vineyard) is a moshav in northern Israel, which replaced the historical Palestinian village of Ijzim in 1949. Located near Atlit, on the southern side of Mount Carmel, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2019 it had a population of 777.[1]

Kerem Maharal
Kerem Maharal
Coordinates: 32°38′56.75″N 34°59′31.19″E
CountryIsrael
DistrictHaifa
CouncilHof HaCarmel
AffiliationMoshavim Movement
Founded1949
Founded byCzechoslovak Jewish immigrants
Population
 (2019)[1]
777

History

The moshav was established in 1949 by group of Jewish Holocaust survivors from Czechoslovakia, who immigrated to Israel with the help of the Aliya movement after World War II.

Kerem Maharal was named after legendary 16th century Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, also known by the Hebrew acronym "Maharal" (Moreinu HaRav Loew, translated as Our teacher, the Rabbi Loew). It was built on the site of the depopulated Palestinian Arab villages of Ijzim and Khirbat Al-Manara,[2][3] which were captured by the Israel Defense Forces in Operation Shoter during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.[4] The residents lived in the Arab stone houses until the 1960s and some of the original structures remain today.[4][5]

Notable residents

References
  1. "Population in the Localities 2019" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  2. Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 165. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  3. Khalidi, 1992, p. 176
  4. Ein-Gil, Ehud (September 14, 2006). "It takes a village". Haaretz. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
  5. Rochelle A. Davis (2011). Palestinian Village Histories. Stanford University Press. p. 162.
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