- Kfar Chabad
Kfar Chabad ( _he. כפר חב"ד, lit. "
Chabad Village") is aChabad-Lubavitch village in centralIsrael . Located betweenBeit Dagan andLod , it falls under the jurisdiction ofLod Valley Regional Council . In 2007 it had a population of 5,100.History
Kfar Chabad was established in 1949 by
Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn . [ [http://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day.asp?AID=276266 Chabad.org Calendar] ] The site was originally an Arab village called Tzafariyya, whose inhabitants fled during the 1948 War. The first inhabitants were mostly recent immigrants from theSoviet Union , survivors of the terrors ofWorld War II andStalinist oppression. Kfar Chabad, which is located just outsideLod and about 8 km south-east ofTel Aviv , includes agricultural lands as well as numerouseducational institutions . It serves as the headquarters of the Chabad-LubavitchChassidic movement in theHoly Land . Kfar Chabad is a Lubavitch community.Education
"Kfar Chabad is particularly known for its vocational and technical schools. Established with separate classrooms and dormitories for boys and girls, these schools provide rigorous vocational training coupled with intensive religious study. Generally, boys specialize in printing, mechanics, carpentry, or agricultural work, and girls focus mainly on careers in education. Few of the youngsters who arrive at Kfar Chabad each fall from all over Israel are themselves
Hasidim ." Furthemore, "The Lubavitchers ... settlement in Israel has been a deliberate effort to reverse the modern trend towardJewish assimilation ." ["Despite All Odds: The Story of Lubavitch", Edward Hoffman (New York, 1991, Simon and Schuster), p. 154-5]Political leadership
Previous
mayor s include Shlomo Meidanchik.ee also
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Kfar Chabad Railway Station
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