Kfar Monash (, ''lit.'' Monash Village) is a

moshav A moshav ( he, מוֹשָׁב, plural ', lit. ''settlement, village'') is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 an ...

in central

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 ...

. Located in the northern part of the

Sharon plain The Sharon plain ( ''HaSharon Arabic: سهل شارون Sahel Sharon'') is the central section of the Israeli coastal plain. The plain lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the west and the Samarian Hills, to the east. It stretches from Nahal ...

and covering 2,700

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s, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Hefer Valley Regional Council The Hefer Valley Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית עמק חפר, ''Mo'atza Azorit Emek Hefer'') is a regional council in the Hefer Valley region of the Sharon plain in central Israel. It is named after an administrative district ...

. In it had a population of . The vast majority of its residents are

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History

The moshav was founded in 1946 by

Jew Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""Th ...

ish former

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n servicemen, and was named after the Jewish Australian general, Sir

John Monash General Sir John Monash, (; 27 June 1865 – 8 October 1931) was an Australian civil engineer and military commander of the First World War. He commanded the 13th Infantry Brigade before the war and then, shortly after its outbreak, became co ...

. It is known among archaeologists as the finding place of the

Kfar Monash Hoard The Kfar Monash Hoard is a hoard of metal objects dated to the Early Bronze Age (the third millennium BCE) found in the spring of 1962 by the agriculturalist Zvi Yizhar in Kfar Monash, Israel. Kfar Monash is located 3.3 km south-east of Tel He ...

. The

Ruppin Academic Center Ruppin Academic Center (), also known as Ruppin College, is a college in Israel, which has the status of an institutional settlement. It was established in 1949, is named after Arthur Ruppin, and is located near the moshav Kfar Monash, and withi ...

, established in 1949, is located nearby. At its founding, the village contained a sophisticated printing press and was engaged in producing maps and atlases. However, the economic crisis in the early 1950s led to its closure in 1953, and agriculture became the main livelihood of most residents. Local agriculture and husbandry consists primarily of citrus orchards, but also includes growing flowers in greenhouses, and raising chickens and turkeys. File:כפר מונאש - העליה על אדמת כפר מונאש-JNF027248.jpeg, Kfar Monash 1946 File:כפר מונאש - חברי כפר מונאש, מושב שיתופי של חיילים משוחררים, בונים את בתיהם.-JNF002589.jpeg, Kfar Monash 1947 File:מתיישבי כפר-מונאש בזמן עבודתם אי-שם-JNF006704.jpeg, Kfar Monash 1946 File:כפר מונאש - בבנינו-JNF002601.jpeg, Kfar Monash 1947

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{{Hefer Valley Regional Council Archaeological sites in Israel Australian-Jewish culture in Israel Moshavim Populated places established in 1946 1946 establishments in Mandatory Palestine Populated places in Central District (Israel)

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