Kadima-Zoran ( he, קדימה-צורן), also known as Kadima-Tzoran, is a
local council in the
Central District of
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
. The result of the 2003 union of the Tzoran and Kadima councils, in it had a population of .
Kadima-Zoran is home to the "Ta'am Shel Pa'am" (A Taste of Old Times) museum for the history of the settlement in the elementary school Nitzanei HaSharon.
History
Before the
20th century, the territory of Kadima-Zoran formed part of the Forest of Sharon, a hallmark of the region’s historical landscape. It was an open
woodland
A woodland () is, in the broad sense, land covered with trees, or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the ''plurale tantum'' woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (se ...
dominated by Mount Tabor Oak
(Quercus ithaburensis), which extended from
Kfar Yona
Kfar Yona ( he, כְּפַר יוֹנָה, lit=Yona's Village) is a city in the Sharon subdistrict in the Central District of Israel. It is about 7 km east of Netanya. With a jurisdiction of 11,017 dunams (~11 km²). in it had a popul ...
in the north to
Ra’ananna in the south. The local Arab inhabitants traditionally used the area for
pasture
Pasture (from the Latin ''pastus'', past participle of ''pascere'', "to feed") is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or sw ...
,
firewood and intermittent
cultivation. The intensification of settlement and agriculture in the
coastal plain
A coastal plain is flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast. A fall line commonly marks the border between a coastal plain and a piedmont area. Some of the largest coastal plains are in Alaska and the southeastern United States. The Gulf Co ...
during the
19th century led to
deforestation
Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use. Deforestation can involve conversion of forest land to farms, ranches, or urban use. The most concentrated ...
and subsequent
environmental degradation known from
Hebrew sources.
Kadima
Kadima was founded on 5 July 1933 as an agricultural settlement at the initiative of
Yehoshua Hankin
Yehoshua Hankin ( he, יהושע חנקין, 1864 – 11 November 1945) was a Zionist activist who was responsible for most of the major land purchases of the Zionist Organization in Ottoman Palestine and Mandatory Palestine – in particular f ...
. Most of the settlers were German immigrants.
The name means "forward" in
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
, and was taken from a Biblical verse (
Habakkuk
Habakkuk, who was active around 612 BC, was a prophet whose oracles and prayer are recorded in the Book of Habakkuk, the eighth of the collected twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible. He is revered by Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
Almost a ...
1:9).
The town was declared a local council in 1950.
Tzoran
Tzoran, meaning
silicon
Silicon is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic luster, and is a tetravalent metalloid and semiconductor. It is a member of group 14 in the periodic ta ...
, was founded in 1992 and was planned by architect
Rachel Walden. The settlement was named after a
Hasmonean city that had existed in the area. It was first populated in 1994, and declared a local council in 1997.
Notable people
*
Yoav Cohen (born 1999), Olympic windsurfer
*
Roi Huber
Roi Huber ( he, רועי הובר; born February 10, 1997) is an Israeli professional basketball player for Hapoel Galil Elyon of the Israeli Basketball Premier League.
Early life
Huber was born in Kadima, Israel. He played for Hapoel Lev Hashar ...
(born 1997), basketball player
*
David Levin (born 1999), ice hockey player
References
Local councils in Central District (Israel)
2003 establishments in Israel
Populated places established in 2003
{{Israel-geo-stub