Kfar Shmaryahu ( Hebrew : כְּפַר שְׁמַרְיָהוּ , Arabic : كفار شمرياهو ) is a local council in Israel , within the Tel Aviv District .
5-506: Kfar Shmaryahu was founded in May 1937, during the Fifth Aliyah . The founding members were German-Jewish immigrants, who named the village after Shmaryahu Levin (1867–1935), a Russian-born Jewish Zionist leader. The village was founded as an agricultural community, with forty farms, thirty auxiliary farms, and twenty lots for housing projects. A well was drilled, and a synagogue that became
10-481: A figure higher than Tel Aviv and over twice as high as Jerusalem . In 2022 it had a population of 1,951. This geography of Israel article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fifth Aliyah The Fifth Aliyah ( Hebrew : העלייה החמישית , romanized : HaAliyah HaHamishit ) refers to the fifth wave of the Jewish immigration to Palestine from Europe and Asia between
15-509: A mass migration between 1933 and 1939, with at least 55,000 Jews from Central Europe immigrating to Palestine or residing there as semi-permanent residents. The 1936–1939 Arab riots in Mandatory Palestine weakened the immigration wave, but during the years 1938–1939 thousands of Jewish immigrants arrived, some of them illegally . The British White Paper of 1939 severely curtailed Jewish immigration. The onset of World War II
20-559: The center of community life was also built. In late 1938, 60 families were living there, and the predominant language was German . Throughout the following years the town absorbed new immigrants. In 1950 it was declared a local council and was granted additional land. Kfar Shmaryahu is an affluent suburb of Tel Aviv. It is ranked very highly on the Israeli socio-economic scale (10 out of 10). According to Yedioth Ahronoth , Kfar Shmaryahu's municipality annually spends NIS 8,700 per resident,
25-530: The years 1929 and 1939, with the arrival of 225,000 to 300,000 Jews. The Fifth Aliyah, or fifth immigration wave, began after the comeback from the 1927 economic crisis in Mandatory Palestine and the 1929 Palestine riots , during the period of the Fourth Aliyah . This wave of immigration began as a pioneering one, but with the onset of racial persecution in Nazi Germany attained the character of
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