Template:Infobox Israel municipality Kfar Tavor (Template:Lang-he-n) is a village in the Lower Galilee region of northern Israel, at the foot of Mount Tabor. Founded in 1901, it was awarded local council status in 1949. In 2008, Kfar Tavor had a population of 2,700.
History
Kfar Tavor was established in 1901 by pioneers of the First Aliya. Twenty-eight farmers settled in the area with the assistance of the philanthropist Baron Edmond de Rothschild. The new settlement was originally known as Mas'ha, the name of the nearby Arab village. It was renamed in 1903 at the urging of Zionist leader Menachem Ussishkin who visited the site and was surprised to find it had no Hebrew name.[1] At first, there was some debate over whether to use the term kfar ("village"), which some residents thought would bode badly for future growth. Ussishkin responded that he had visited the German town of Düsseldorf, which had also originated as a dorf, or village, but was now a full-fledged city. The Rothschild administration determined that the site was ideal for cultivating grapes. The vineyards of Kfar Tavor became a major supplier of quality grapes to the country's leading wineries. In 1999, after a century of supplying raw materials, four families established the Tabor Winery.[2]
Landmarks
In the Hameyasdim neighborhood, the core of the colony, there is the colony museum and other sites, including the Hashomer house, the first school and teacher's house (now a library) and a synagogue that was built in 1937. Another school, built in 1911, now serves as the Shenkar Tzfira Music Center. The main street of the neighborhood has houses left from the colony's early days, as well as parts of the wall that surrounded the settlement.[1]
Notable residents
- Yigal Allon, politician, commander of the Palmach, and general in the IDF, was born in Kfar Tavor.
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