Kfar Yehezkel

Kfar Yehezkel (Hebrew: כְּפַר יְחֶזְקֵאל‎, lit. Yehezkel Village) is a moshav ovdim in northern Israel. Located in the Jezreel Valley, six kilometres southeast of Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. In 2019 the moshav had a population of 1,213.[1]

Kfar Yehezkel

כְּפַר יְחֶזְקֵאל‎
Kfar Yehezkel
Coordinates: 32°34′1.91″N 35°21′32.4″E
CountryIsrael
DistrictNorthern
CouncilGilboa
AffiliationMoshavim Movement
Founded16 December 1921
Founded bySecond Aliyah pioneers
Population
 (2019)[1]
1,213
Name meaningYehezkel Village

History

Kfar Yehezkel was founded on 16 December 1921 by pioneers of the Second Aliyah.[2] Settlers from Tel Hai and Hamara, which was evacuated because of Arab attacks from Lebanon, were also among the founding members. It was the second moshav ovdim in Palestine, after Nahalal.[3]

Originally called Ayn Tib'un after the nearby spring, it was renamed in honor of Sassoon Eskell (Yehezkel Sassoon) of the Sassoon family, an Iraqi-Jewish statesman and philanthropist.[4] The driver of the moshav was injured in 1936 during a spate of gang violence.[5]

  • Kfar Yehezkel 1926
  • Kfar Yehezkel, 1937-1938
  • Kfar Yehezkel 1937
  • Kfar Yehezkel 1939
  • Kfar Yehezkel 1945

Architectural master plan

Kfar Yehezkel's general layout was designed by Richard Kauffmann at about the same time as he drew the plans for the better-known Nahalal settlement. Similarly, it grouped the public buildings at the centre with several residential buildings surrounding them along an inner ring road, with individual plots of agricultural land radiating outwards between straight roads, and additional housing along these roads. The geometrical symmetry of the initial settlement was less stringent than was the case with Nahalal, also due to the semicircular shape of the plateau at the centre of the village.[6]

Notable residents

References
  1. "Population in the Localities 2019" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  2. Family Affair: The Broidas, Kfar Yehezkel Haaretz, 16 April 2009
  3. The Industrial Geography of Israel
  4. Kfar Yehezkel Jewish Agency for Israel
  5. The Letters of Martin Buber
  6. Richard Kauffmann, Die Bebauungsplaene der Kleinsiedlungen Kfar-Nahalal und Kfar-Jecheskiel ('The construction plans for the agricultural small housing estates Kfar Nahalal and Kfar Yehezkel|Kfar Jecheskiel'), published by the Department for Agricultural Colonization of the Zionist Executive, Jerusalem (1923), in German.

Further reading
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