Kafr-Qara
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| hebrew : | כַּפְר קַרִע | ||
| arabic : | كفر قرع | ||
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| District : | Haifa | ||
| Coordinates : | 32 ° 30 ' N , 35 ° 3' E | ||
| Height : | 127 m | ||
| Area : | 7.820 km² | ||
| Residents : | 18,675 (as of 2018) | ||
| Population density : | 2,388 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Community code : | 0654 | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 2 | ||
| Community type: | city | ||
| Structure : | 13 neighborhoods | ||
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Kafr-Qara or Kafr-Qaraa ( Arabic كفر قرع, DMG Kafr Qarʿ ; Hebrew כַּפְר קַרִע; German "Kürbisdorf") is an Arab city in Israel . Kafr-Qara is located northwest of Wadi Ara or the Green Line in al-Muthallath al-Shamali (northern triangle) of Israel and is 44 km southeast of Haifa . The name Kafr-Qara or Kufr-Qaraa comes from the word Qara (a), which means "pumpkin" in German, and leads back to the former pumpkin cultivation in the city.
The population is 18,675 (as of 2018) and the floor area is around 7.8 km².
City structure
Kafr-Qara consists of 13 districts:
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history
In 1915, during World War I, the Ottoman Military Railroad in Palestine built the Maspūdiyya – Sinai narrow-gauge railway for the Central Powers for the purpose of supplying supplies to the Sinai and Palestine fronts . In order to obtain fuel for the steam locomotives, Ottoman and German military personnel built branch lines from Tulkarm to Hadera and before Qaqun branching off northeast through Wadi ʿAra up to Kafr Qara, where the old forest ʿIron was exploited for logging. The railway went into operation in 1915, but was abandoned when the defeated Central Powers withdrew in 1918.
education
Kafr-Qara also has a high rate of academics who have graduated from universities either inside or outside the country. Among other things, a higher number of doctors (14 doctors per 1000 inhabitants) live there than in other villages and cities in the country (according to statistics from the daily Jedi'ot Acharonot 2010). 85.5% passed the Abitur in 2010 (the high school graduation rate in all of Israel was 75% over the same period).
schools
There are the following schools in Kafr-Qara:
- 5 primary schools
- al-Ibtidaiya "Alif" (al-Domkratiya al-Mojadita.)
- al-Ibtidaiya "Bā" (al-Hakim)
- al-Ibtidaiya "Jīm" (al-Mostakbal)
- al-Ibtidaiya "Dāl" (al-Haouarni)
- 2 secondary schools (7th-9th grade)
- Iaadadaiya "Alif" (Ibn-Sina)
- Iaadadaiya "Bā" (al-Salam)
- 4 high schools
- al-Nahada al-Ahalyia High School (7th-12th grade)
- Kafr-Qara al-Shamilaa-Gymnasium (Ahmad-Abdallah-Gymnasium)
- Technical High School (Ibn al-Nafies High School)
- Technical High School (Naamat High School)
There are also 10 state kindergartens and more than 10 preschools. In addition, Kafr-Qara has an association for the city's talented students. The construction of a school for autistic children is on the plan for the 2012/2013 school year.
Bilingual school
Kfar-Qara is one of the few places that has taken up the idea of bilingual schools attended by Arabs and Jews alike; the school Jassir aal al-Wadi / yadan bi yad-Ibtidaiya ( dt. 'bridge over the wadi / hand in hand primary school') was founded.
Due to the Second Intifada in October 2000, a group of ten Arabs and ten Jews from Wadi Ara made the decision to found a joint school in response to violence and hatred. The mayor at the time offered the group a school next to the high school, which today, after approval by the Israeli Ministry of Education, successfully unites Jewish and Arab students. The primary school “Bridge over the Wadi”, founded in 2004 by the Center for Jewish-Arab Education “Hand in Hand”, is the third bilingual school in the country. The school's motto is: Education with human values such as mutual respect, equality among people, integrity, justice, trust and tolerance. In school, u. a. taught the Jewish, Islamic and Christian cultures. In addition, the students are taught the principles of democracy and social equality in a simple, practical way. In the first year of its existence (2004/2005) the school had a total of 105 students, from kindergarten to 3rd grade. In the following school year the number rose to 180. The students come from the settlements in the vicinity of Kufr-Qaraa like Katzir-Harish, Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Ein Iron and Givat Ada as well as from other Arab cities and villages like Ara, Ar'ara and Baqa al-Gharbiyye and from Kufr-Qaraa itself. In 2006 50% of the students were Arabs and 50% Jews.
Other institutions
- Mosques (Arabic Masjid) in Kfar-Qara (2010)
- Masjid Quba
- Masjid al-Nour
- Masjid Nida al-Haq
- Masjid Umar ibn al-Khattab
- Masjid Abu Bakr al-Siddiq
- Masjid Fatima az-Zahra
- Masjid al-Sanadhaoui
- Masjid al-Haouarni
- Banks
- Bank Hapoalim. (Workers' Bench)
- al-Bank al-Arabi al-Israeli. (Arab-Israel Bank)
- al-Baried. (Postbank)
- Medical supplies
- 3 doctor's offices for children
- 5 health maintenance organizations
- 3 leisure gardens
- Others
- A training center for the disabled
- A fringe institution for early childhood education
- An entertainment center for the elderly
- A Mitnas cultural center
- A research center / association al-Zahraoui
- A youth club Iehissan
- A student organization al-Qalam
- A relief organization for the disabled al-Schafaa & al-Rahama
Sports
Football is the favorite sport in Kfar-Qara, there are two football teams that play in different leagues:
- Maccabi Baladi Kufr-Qaraa (2nd division)
- Hapoel Kufr-Qaraa (3rd division)
Sons and daughters
- Jamal Zahalka (* 1955), Israeli politician
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ ARD Middle East very close, from September 5, 2016, 00:59, 7 min., Accessed on September 6, 2016 (not available)