Kfar Warburg (Hebrew: כְּפַר וַרְבּוּרְג, lit. Warburg Village) is a large moshav in south-central Israel. Located near Kiryat Malakhi with 98 farms covering an area of 6,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In 2019 it had a population of 1,143.[1]

Kfar Warburg כפר ורבורג كفار فاربورغ
Kfar Warburg
Kfar Warburg
Coordinates: 31°43′11″N 34°43′24″E
Country	Israel
District	Southern
Council	Be'er Tuvia
Affiliation	Moshavim Movement
Founded	31 October 1939
Founded by	"Menachem" members
Population  (2019)[1]	1,143
Website	www.kfar-warburg.com

History

The moshav was founded on 31 October 1939 by members of the "Menachem" organisation. It was named after Felix M. Warburg, one of the leaders of the Jewish community in the United States and a founder of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.[2] It was founded on land that had traditionally belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Qastina.[3]

In the early 1950s, after the population of Kfar Warburg doubled, a culture hall with a 880-seat auditorium was built at the crossroads of the village's three main roads. Plays by the Habima and Cameri theaters were performed there almost every week.[4]

Notable residents

• Yigal Hurvitz, a former Minister of Finance, was buried in the moshav
• Aviva Rabinovich, professor of botany, chief scientist at the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and an environmental activist, spent her childhood in the moshav

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kfar Warburg.

• Official website (in Hebrew)