KEFAR HA-MACCABI

KEFAR HA-MACCABI
KEFAR HA-MACCABI (Heb. כְּפַר הַמַּכַּבִּי), kibbutz in the Haifa Bay area, Israel, affiliated to Iḥud ha-Kevuẓot ve-ha-Kibbutzim. It was founded in 1936 by pioneers from Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Germany, who were members of the maccabi Sports Organization and the Maccabi ha–ẓ. a'ir youth movement. Some of them had come to participate in the maccabiah which took place in the country that year, and stayed on "illegally" (see immigration , "Illegal"). The kibbutz developed intensive, irrigated farming based on field crops, avocado orchards, dairy cattle, poultry, and fishery; it also went into partnership in a food factory with the neighboring kibbutz, Ramat Yoḥanan . In 1969 it had 310 inhabitants; in 2002, 291. Kefar ha–Maccabi is named after the Maccabi Organization which contributed funds toward the purchase of its land. (Efraim Orni / Shaked Gilboa (2nd ed.)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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