Kfar HaChoresch

Kfar HaChoresch
Basic data
hebrew :	כפר החורש
State :	Israel
District :	North
Founded :	1933
Coordinates :	32 ° 42 ′ N , 35 ° 16 ′ E Coordinates: 32 ° 42 ′ 15 " N , 35 ° 16 ′ 20" E
Height :	402 m
Residents :	696 (as of 2018)
Community code :	0192
Time zone :	UTC + 2
Website :	www.kh.org.il
	Kfar HaChoresch
	Kfar HaChoresch

Kfar HaChoresch ( Hebrew כְּפַר הָחֹרֶשׁ Kfar ha-Chōresch , German 'Village of the Thicket' , English Kfar HaHoresh , Plene :כפר החורש) is a kibbutz in the northern district of Israel in the historic Galilee region . Kfar HaChoresch is located about two kilometers west of Nazareth at an altitude of 449 meters above sea level and had 696 inhabitants in 2018.

The kibbutz was founded in 1933 by members of the youth organization Gordonia , which goes back to Aharon David Gordon (1856-1922). The land on which the settlement was built was acquired by the Jewish National Fund in 1930 . Today there is, among other things, a large bakery, fruit growing, agriculture and chicken breeding here. The most famous resident of Kfar HaChoresch was the satirist Ephraim Kishon , who lived here temporarily after fleeing Hungary and learned Hebrew .

archeology

A Natufien settlement with numerous burials is located on the site of the kibbutz . One of the skulls from Kfar HaChoresch is painted with vermilion .

Web links

Commons : Kfar HaChoresch - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Homepage of Kfar HaHoresh

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 .
↑ אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .
^ A. Nigel Goring-Morris , Life, Death and the Emergence of Differential Status in the Near Eastern Neolithic: Evidence from Kfar HaHoresh, Lower Galilee, Israel. In: J. Clark (Ed.), Archaeological Perspectives on the Transmission and Transformation of Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean. Levant Supplementary Series. Oxford, CBRL and Oxbow Books 2004, 89-105
↑ Nigel Goring Morris, Anna Belfer-Cohen, Different strokes for different folks: Near Eastern Neolithic mortuary practices in Perspective. In: Ian Hodder (Ed.), Religion at Work in a Neolithic Society. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2014, 47

[1] אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .

[2] אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .

[3] A. Nigel Goring-Morris , Life, Death and the Emergence of Differential Status in the Near Eastern Neolithic: Evidence from Kfar HaHoresh, Lower Galilee, Israel. In: J. Clark (Ed.), Archaeological Perspectives on the Transmission and Transformation of Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean. Levant Supplementary Series. Oxford, CBRL and Oxbow Books 2004, 89-105

[4] Nigel Goring Morris, Anna Belfer-Cohen, Different strokes for different folks: Near Eastern Neolithic mortuary practices in Perspective. In: Ian Hodder (Ed.), Religion at Work in a Neolithic Society. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2014, 47