Kfar Hess
| Kfar Hess | |||
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| District : | Central | ||
| Founded : | 1931 | ||
| Coordinates : | 32 ° 15 ' N , 34 ° 56' E | ||
| Height : | 74 m | ||
| Area : | 3.8 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1577 (as of 2018) | ||
| Population density : | 415 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Community code : | 0187 | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 2 | ||
| Community type: | Regional administration | ||
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Kfar (also Kefar) Hess is a moshaw in the Sharon plain in Israel .
location
Kfar Hess is located about 30 km northeast of Tel Aviv and administratively belongs to the Lev HaScharon regional administration in the central district (Israel) .
history
Kfar Hess was founded in 1931. The moshaw is named after the early German socialist and 1848 revolutionary Moses Hess , who wrote one of the fundamental works of Zionism in Rome and Jerusalem when he was old .
On November 10, 2001, a Palestinian terrorist shot dead the Israeli security officer of the moshav, Aharon Ussishkin, for 50 years and seriously injured two others in front of the moshav.
Residents
The Israeli Central Statistical Office gives the following population figures for Kfar Hess in the censuses of November 8, 1948, May 22, 1961, May 19, 1972, June 4, 1983, November 4, 1995 and December 28, 2008:
| Year of the census | 1948 | 1961 | 1972 | 1983 | 1995 | 2008 |
| Number of inhabitants | 349 | 399 | 434 | 502 | 612 | 1226 |
In 2018 the moshav had 1,577 inhabitants.
sons and daughters of the town
- Giora Eiland (1952-) Former National Security Advisor to Israel
Web links
- Official website of Kfar Hess (Hebrew)
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 .
- ↑ Israelis shot dead by Palestinian terrorists . In: Israelnetz.de , November 12, 2001; accessed on July 27, 2018.
- ^ Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
- ↑ אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .