Kfar Shmaryahu
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Kfar Shmaryahu (Template:Lang-he-n, Arabic: كفر شمرياهو) is a local council in Israel, within the Tel Aviv District. The council was founded in 1937, during the Fifth Aliyah to Israel.[1] The founding members were German-Jewish immigrants, who named the village after Shmaryahu Levin (1867–1935), a Russian-born Jewish Zionist leader. The village was founded as an agricultural community, with forty farms, thirty auxiliary farms, and twenty lots for housing projects. A well was drilled, and a synagogue that became the center of community life was also built. In late 1938, 60 families were living there, and the predominant language was German.
In 2022 it had a population of 1,951.[2]
Kfar Shmaryahu later became an affluent suburb of Tel Aviv. It is ranked very highly on the Israeli socio-economic scale (10 out of 10).[3] According to Yedioth Ahronoth, Kfar Shmaryahu's municipality annually spends NIS 8,700 per resident, a figure higher than Tel Aviv and over twice as high as Jerusalem.[4]
Notable residents
- Shai Agassi
- Shulamit Aloni (1928–2014), civil-rights politician and left-wing activist
- Aki Avni
- Ilanit
- Daphni Leef, activist and video editor
- Ari Shavit, author, journalist
- Miriam Siderenski, Olympic runner
- Stef Wertheimer
- Sapir Koffmann, Miss Israel 1984
References
- ^ "Village history". kfar-shemaryahu.muni.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2006-11-24.
- ^ "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ "The Richest Towns: Savyon, Kfar Shmaryahu, Omer - Haaretz - Israel News Haaretz.com". www.haaretz.com. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
- ^ "Investing in You". Yedioth Ahronoth - Mamon. 2008-02-12. p. 1.
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