Kfar Haruv
Kfar Haruv (Hebrew: כְּפַר חָרוּב, lit. Carob Village) is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz located in the southern Golan Heights. A member of the Kibbutz Movement, it falls under the jurisdiction of Golan Regional Council. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.[2] In 2019 it had a population of 434.[1]
Kfar Haruv
כְּפַר חָרוּב | |
|---|---|
  Kfar Haruv | |
| Coordinates: 32°45′45″N 35°39′49″E | |
| District | Northern |
| Council | Golan Regional Council |
| Region | Golan Heights |
| Affiliation | Kibbutz Movement |
| Founded | 1974 |
| Founded by | Hashomer Hatzair members |
| Population (2019) | 434[1] |
Geography
The kibbutz is located on the edge of the cliffs 315 meters (1,033 ft) above sea level (about 525 meters (1,722 ft) above the Sea of Galilee) and 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) east of the sea.
History
A village called Kfar Yahrib is mentioned in the 3rd century Mosaic of Rehob.[3] Later an Arab village with the similar name Kafr Harib existed at the south edge of the current settlement's built-up area. Kafr Harib appeared in Ottoman tax registers in 1596 as a village in the Nahiya of Jawlan Garbi in the Qada of Hawran. It had a population of 5 Muslim households and 7 bachelors and paid taxes on wheat, barley and goats or beehives.[4] In 1888, Gottlieb Schumacher described it as a village of 70 stone and mud huts with about 200 "affable and hospitable" inhabitants, who ran an excellent bee industry in addition to cultivation.[5] Later the village lay just outside the borders of Mandatory Palestine, though some of its lands lay inside Palestine.[6] Kafr Harib village had about 1900 inhabitants when it was depopulated during the Six Day War in 1967.[7]
The Israeli settlement was founded in 1973, and took its name from Kafr Harib.[3] The new Israeli founders settled temporarily in Afik camp, and moved to the present-day location (the site of a Syrian army base that overlooks Ein Gev and HaOn) in 1974. The sixteenth Israeli settlement established in the Golan Heights, its members are native Israelis and immigrants from the United States. As of 2011 the population stood at 400 residents, of whom 90 live in the new neighborhood built in 2004.
Economy
The main employer of the settlement is the A.R.I. factory that it owns, which manufactures hydraulic equipment. The settlement continues to grow plants for agriculture, such as almonds, avocado, nectars, and peaches. It also has a cow stable for milk. There is also a laundromat and curtain-maker. The settlement is a partner in the tourist site Hamat Gader, and it operates Mitzpe LeShalom (Peace Vista), a place for recreation on the edge of the On Cliffs.
See also
References
- "Population in the Localities 2019" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- "The Geneva Convention". BBC. 10 December 2009.
- The Holy Land - from the Persian to the Arab Conquests (536 B.C. to A.D. 640) A Historical Geography , Michael Avi-Yonah, Grand Rapids, 1979, p. 170; ISBN 0-8010-0010-6
- Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth and Kamal Abdulfattah (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. p. 196.
- G. Schmacher (1888). The Jaulân. London: Richard Bentley and Son. p. X.
- Government of Palestine, Village Statistics 1945, p. 12.
- Yigal Kipnis (2013). The Golan Heights. London and New York: Routledge. p. 244.
External links
- Kfar Haruv Golan Heights website (in Hebrew)