Kfar Pines ( he, כְּפַר פִּינֶס, ''lit.'' Pines Village) is a religious
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 northern
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 to the north-east of
Hadera
Hadera ( he, חֲדֵרָה ) is a city located in the Haifa District of Israel, in the northern Sharon region, approximately 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the major cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. The city is located along 7 km (5&nbs ...
, adjacent to
Pardes Hanna-Karkur
Pardes Hanna-Karkur ( he, פַּרְדֵּס חַנָּה-כַּרְכּוּר) is a town in the Haifa District of Israel. In it had a population of .
History
An Arab village named Karkur had stood at this location by the time the Palestine ...
and
Ein Iron
Ein Iron ( he, עֵין עִירוֹן, ''lit.'' Spring of Iron) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the eastern Sharon plain to the north-east of Hadera, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a population ...
, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Menashe Regional Council
The Menashe Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית מנשה, ''Mo'atza Azorit Menasheh'') is a regional council near the city of Hadera, on Israel's north-central coastal plain in the southern Haifa District. It is named after the tribe of ...
. In it had a population of .
History
The village was established in 1933 by
Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe, and was named after the author Rabbi
Yehiel Michel Pines
Yechiel Michel Pines ( ) (; 18 September 1824 – 15 March 1913) was a Russian-born religious Zionist rabbi, writer, and community leader in the Old Yishuv.
Yechiel Michel Pines was born at Ruzhinoy, near Grodno. He was the son of Noah Pines ...
. It hosts an ulpena, a religious girls high school, named "Ramat Karniel" (Karniel's height). It is the first ulpena in Israel and therefore it is called "Em HaUlpenot" (mother of all ulpenas).
References
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Moshavim
Religious Israeli communities
Populated places established in 1933
1933 establishments in Mandatory Palestine
Populated places in Haifa District