Kfar Shalem ( he, כפר שלם, lit: Shalem Village) is a
neighbourhood
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in southeastern
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...
,
Israel
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. Salameh Street / Shalma Street in Tel Aviv is named after the Arab village of
Salamah located on the site prior to 1948.
History
Until 1948, the
Arab
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village of
Salama stood where Kfar Shalem is now located. In 1931, there were 800 houses and 3,691 residents in the village. On the eve of the
1948 Arab-Israeli War
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, the village had 7,600 residents, most of whom were refugees from the surrounding area, who had moved to Salama. The residents also included some wealthy people from
Jaffa
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who built country homes there.
Salama was occupied on 29 April 1948, as part of
Operation Hametz
Operation Hametz ( he, מבצע חמץ, ''Mivtza Hametz'') was a Jewish operation towards the end of the British Mandate of Palestine, as part of the 1948 Palestine war. It was launched at the end of April 1948 with the objective of capturing vi ...
to remove the threat of sniper fire to the Jewish neighbourhoods of
Hatikvah
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, Ezra and
Yad Eliyahu
Yad Eliyahu ( he, יד אליהו) is a neighborhood in east Tel Aviv, Israel.
Yad Eliyahu was established in 1929. It developed in accordance with plans drawn up by Jacob Ben Sira, the Tel Aviv municipal engineer. The neighborhood, named for Ha ...
. The villagers were expelled and Jewish immigrants were settled there, among them
Yemenite families who arrived as part of
Operation Magic Carpet
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and families who had been made homeless during the war. Renamed Kfar Shalem, it became part of a densely populated neighbourhood of Tel Aviv, with some 20,000 residents.
In the 1960s, the area was slated for urban renewal. In 1965, the residents were served with eviction notices. Opposition to this move led to protests that sometimes turned violent. In December 1982, Shimon Yehoshua was shot to death by a policeman when trying to prevent the demolition of his home. At the beginning of the 1990s, hundreds of families were evacuated, receiving generous compensation.
Evacuation orders were issued against 30 families on the grounds that their homes are built on private land owned in 1948 by a British investor that were not expropriated by the state. The
Supreme Court
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accepted this argument, and the forced evacuation was carried out in mid-July 2007. Activists and community groups criticized this ruling, describing it as “ethnic-class injustice”.
In 2019, the Parent-Child Center opened in Kfar Shalem, offering programs and workshops for local children and their parents.
It takes a village: New beginnings in Kfar Shalem
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Sport
The neighbourhood has a football team, Hapoel Kfar Shalem
Hapoel Kfar Shalem ( he, הפועל כפר שלם) is an Israeli football club based in the Kfar Shalem neighbourhood of Tel Aviv. They are currently in Liga Alef South division, and play home matches at Southern Sportech.
History
The club was ...
, which plays in Liga Alef
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History
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.
See also
*Neighborhoods of Tel Aviv This list of the neighborhoods of Tel Aviv, is arranged geographically from north to south, then from west to east.
Northwest
Residential
* Azorei Hen (אזורי חן), ''Areas of Grace''
* Kokhav HaTzafon (כוכב הצפון), '' Northern Sta ...
External links
The Story of Kfar Shalem
References
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Neighborhoods of Tel Aviv