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Hefer Valley Regional Council
Regional council in Central Israel
Regional council in Central Israel
| Field | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| name | Hefer Valley | |
| native_name | {{Script/Hebrew | עמק חפר}}وادي حيفر |
| settlement_type | Regional council (from 1940) | |
| image_skyline | EmekcheferRC.jpg | |
| image_caption | Emek Hefer Regional Council building | |
| image_blank_emblem | Hefer Valley Regional Council logo.png | |
| pushpin_mapsize | 150 | |
| subdivision_type2 | District | |
| leader_title | Head of Municipality | |
| leader_name | Galit Shaul | |
| unit_pref | dunam | |
| area_total_dunam | ||
| population_total | 41,100 | |
| population_as_of | 2014 | |
| population_density_km2 | auto | |
| website | Official website |
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The Hefer Valley Regional Council (, Mo'atza Azorit Emek Hefer) is a regional council in the Sharon region of the Central District of Israel. It is named after an administrative district in this area in the time of King Solomon ().
The council covers an area adjacent to Hadera in the north, to Netanya in the south, to the Mediterranean in the west and to Tulkarm and the Green Line in the east. As of December 2020, the jurisdiction area of the council has a population of about 42,600 people.
The Regional Council offices are located near Kfar Monash, at the Ruppin junction, next to the Ruppin Academic Center.
History
In the early 1900s, a local midwife, Olga Hankin, reported information about the economic state of the families in the region to her husband, Yehoshua Hankin, who was in charge of land purchase for the Jewish National Fund (JNF). In 1927, Yehoshua Hankin resolved the complex legal issues involved in purchasing the land, and signed an agreement for the purchase of the Hefer Valley. The only difficulty was that the JNF did not have sufficient funds to pay the sum needed for buying the land. The chairman of the JNF, Menachem Ussishkin, set out on a fundraising trip to Canada, returning with $300,000 and undertakings to bring it up to a million, the sum required to purchase the Hefer Valley over a period of seven years. At the 16th Zionist Congress held in Zurich in 1929, Ussishkin announced that Emek Hefer was now in Jewish hands.
A group of 20 young members of the "Vitkin" and "Haemek" ('the valley') movements settled in the newly purchased valley. They moved into an abandoned building and began draining the swamps and preparing the land for agriculture.
In April 1933, they built their first houses at Kfar Vitkin, in the heart of the valley. In 1931, a group from the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Hadera established the settlement of Ein HaHoresh, planting the first citrus grove.
A company called "Yachin" prepared plantations for settlers from abroad. Another group from the Kibbutz HaMeuhad movement, founded Givat Haim in 1932, while the organization of demobilized soldiers from the Jewish Brigade set up the settlement of Avihayil.
Ruppin Academic Center was established in the region in 1949.
List of communities
Kibbutzim
- Bahan
- Ein HaHoresh
- Givat Haim (Ihud)
- Givat Haim (Meuhad)
- HaMa'apil
- HaOgen
- Ma'abarot
- Mishmar HaSharon
- Yad Hana
Moshavim
- Ahituv
- Avihayil
- Be'erotayim
- Beit HaLevi
- Beit Herut
- Beit Yanai
- Beit Yitzhak-Sha'ar Hefer
- Beitan Aharon
- Burgata
- Eliashiv
- Elyakhin
- Gan Yoshiya
- Geulei Teiman
- Givat Shapira
- Hadar Am
- Haniel
- Havatzelet HaSharon
- Herev Le'et
- Hibat Tzion
- Hogla
- Kfar Haim
- Kfar Haroeh
- Kfar Monash
- Kfar Vitkin
- Kfar Yedidia
- Mikhmoret
- Olesh
- Ometz
Community settlements
- Bat Hen
- Bat Hefer
- Beit Hazon
- Hofit
- Shoshanat HaAmakim
- Tzukei Yam
Youth villages
- Hadassah Neurim
- Mevo'ot Yam
References
References
- (31 August 2021). "LOCALITIES AND POPULATION, BY MUNICIPAL STATUS AND DISTRICT". [[Israel Central Bureau of Statistics]].
- "Ruppin Academic Center – The Council for Higher Education of Israel". che.org.il.
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