Kfar Shmaryahu

Kfar Shmaryahu כְּפַר שְׁמֵרְיָהוּ‎‎ كفر شمرياهو‎
Hebrew transcription(s)
• ISO 259	Kpar Šmaryahu
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Kfar Shmaryahu
Coordinates: 32°11′5.88″N 34°49′12.45″E / 32.1849667°N 34.8201250°ECoordinates: 32°11′5.88″N 34°49′12.45″E / 32.1849667°N 34.8201250°E
District	Tel Aviv
Founded	1937
Government
• Type	Local council
• Head of Municipality	Dror Aloni
Area
• Total	2,570 dunams (2.57 km^2 or 640 acres)
Population (2015)[1]
• Total	1,856

Location of Kfar Shmaryahu in the Tel Aviv District

Kfar Shmaryahu (Hebrew: כְּפַר שְׁמֵרְיָהוּ‎, Arabic: كفر شمرياهو‎‎) is a local council in Israel, within the Tel Aviv District. The council was founded in 1937, during the Fifth Aliyah to Israel.^[2] The village is named after Shmaryahu Levin (1867–1935), a Russian-born Jewish Zionist leader. In 2015 it had a population of 1,856.

Originally an agricultural community Kfar Shmaryahu became an affluent suburb of Tel Aviv. It is ranked very highly on the Israeli socio-economic scale (10 out of 10).^[3] According to Yedioth Ahronoth, Kfar Shmaryahu's municipality annually spends NIS 8,700 per resident, a figure higher than Tel Aviv and over twice as high as Jerusalem.^[4]

Notable residents

• Shai Agassi
• Shulamit Aloni (1928–2014), civil-rights politician and left-wing activist
• Aki Avni
• Ilanit
• Daphni Leef, activist and video editor
• Ari Shavit, author, journalist
• Miriam Siderenski, Olympic runner
• Stef Wertheimer
• Sapir Koffmann, Miss Israel 1984

References

1. "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
2. "Village history". kfar-shemaryahu.muni.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2006-11-24.
3. "The Richest Towns: Savyon, Kfar Shmaryahu, Omer - Haaretz - Israel News Haaretz.com". www.haaretz.com. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
4. "Investing in You". Yedioth Ahronoth - Mamon. 2008-02-12. p. 1.

External links

• Official website of Kfar Shmaryahu (Hebrew)