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Kfar Daniel

Kfar Daniel is a moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located around four kilometres south-east of Lod and covering 2,900 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 614.

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Kfar Daniel
  • כְּפַר דָּנִיֵּאל‎ (Hebrew)
Kfar Daniel
Coordinates: 31°55′59″N 34°56′2″E / 31.93306°N 34.93389°E / 31.93306; 34.93389
CountryIsrael
DistrictCentral
CouncilHevel Modi'in
AffiliationKibbutz Movement
Founded9 October 1949
Founded byMahalniks
Population
 (2024)1
614

Kfar Daniel (Hebrew: כְּפַר דָּנִיֵּאל, lit. 'Daniel Village') is a moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located around four kilometres south-east of Lod and covering 2,900 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 614.1

History

During the Ottoman period, the area belonged to the Nahiyeh (sub-district) of Lod that encompassed the area of the present-day city of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut in the south to the present-day city of El'ad in the north, and from the foothills in the east, through the Lod Valley to the outskirts of Jaffa in the west. This area was home to thousands of inhabitants in about 20 villages, who had at their disposal tens of thousands of hectares of prime agricultural land.2

The village was established on 9 October 1949 by Mahalniks (overseas volunteers in the War of Independence) from English-speaking countries on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Daniyal.34 It was initially called Irgun Beit Hever after the organisation which the founders were members of, but was later renamed in honour of Daniel Frish, a president of the Zionist Organization of America who died in the year the village was established, with the new name resembling that of the former Arab village.5

During a Houthi missile attack on 15 September 2024 amid the Gaza war, missile fragments fell into an open area located in the village.6

Economy

Hazorfim, a manufacturer of Judaica and silverware is located in Kfar Daniel.7The moshav also runs a monkey park with 250 species of monkeys. 8

Transportation

There is a highway interchange connecting Highway 1 and Highway 6, called the Daniel Interchange, which is named after the village.

References

References

  1. "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2026.
  2. Marom, Roy (2022). "Lydda Sub-District: Lydda and its countryside during the Ottoman period". Diospolis - City of God: Journal of the History, Archaeology and Heritage of Lod. 8: 103–136.
  3. Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 374. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  4. Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. xxi settlement #73. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
  5. How we learned to forget the villages we destroyed 972 Mag, 16 October 2016
  6. Binns, Daniel. "Ballistic missile fired by Houthis in Yemen hits central Israel for first time sparking 'panic'". Sky News. Retrieved 2024-09-16.
  7. Hazorfim sells Judaica to Arab countries
  8. Serious monkey business
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