Kefar Yona — Original name in latin Kefar Yona Name in other language Kefar Yona, Kefar Yonah, Kfar Yona, kpr ywnh State code IL Continent/City Asia/Jerusalem longitude 32.31669 latitude 34.93507 altitude 59 Population 13320 Date 2012 01 18 … Cities with a population over 1000 database
KEFAR AKKO — (Heb. כְּפַר עַכּוֹ), village mentioned in the Tosefta as the seat of R. Judah b. Agra (Kil. 1:12) and in the Babylonian Talmud as a place from which 1,500 people made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem (Ta an. 21a). Some scholars have identified it with… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
KEFAR DAROM — (Heb. כְּפַר דָּרוֹם), locality in the southern coastal plain of Philistia. It is first mentioned in the Talmud as the seat of R. Eleazar b. Isaac (Sot. 20b). It was captured by the Arabs in 634 and in Crusader times it was a fortress called… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
KEFAR GAMALA — (Heb. כְּפַר גַּמְלָא), ancient village in the territory of Jerusalem. It is mentioned in Byzantine sources as the place where the tomb of R. Gamaliel , the grandson of Hillel the Elder, the teacher of the apostle paul , was discovered following… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
KEFAR SHEMARYAHU — (Heb. כְּפַר שְׁמַרְיָהוּ), semi rural Israeli settlement with municipal council status in the southern Sharon. Kefar Shemaryahu is named after shemaryahu levin . Founded in 1937 as a middle class moshav by immigrants from Germany, from the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
KEFAR KANNA — (Kenna; Ar. Kafr Kanna), a village in Galilee, 4 mi. (6½ km.) N.E. of Nazareth. Owing to its convenient position on the main Nazareth Tiberias road, it has been identified since Byzantine times with the kanah of the Gospels. A mosaic inscription… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
KEFAR NEBURAYA — (Nibborayya; Heb. כְּפַר נִבּוֹרַיָּה), village in Upper Galilee, the home of Jacob of Kefar Neburaya, a popular preacher of the third century C.E., who was often in conflict with the rabbinical authorities and was suspected of heresy (TJ, Yev. 2 … Encyclopedia of Judaism
KEFAR OTNAY — (Otnai; Heb. כְּפַר עוֹתְנָאִי), ancient village, 24 Roman mi. from Caesarea, 24 from Scythopolis (Beth Shean), and 16 from Sepphoris. It is defined in talmudic sources as the farthest limit of Galilee in the direction of Judah and anyone passing … Encyclopedia of Judaism
KEFAR BARAM — (Heb. כְּפַר כַּרְעָם), locality in Upper Galilee, 7 mi. (11 km.) N.W. of Safed. Its Jewish settlement is mentioned only in the Middle Ages (by R. Samuel b. Samson, 1210, and R. Jacob, mid 13th century). Later travelers (including R. Moses Basola … Encyclopedia of Judaism
KEFAR ḤANANYAH — (Heb. כְּפַר חֲנַנְיָה), ancient Jewish village, situated, according to the Mishnah, on the border between Upper and Lower Galilee (Shev. 9:2). It was known as a village of potters, who utilized the black (Tosef., BM 6:3) or white soil (BM 74a)… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
