Kfar Kisch

Kfar Kisch
Hebrew	כְּפַר קִישׁ
Founded	1946
Founded by	Demobilized soldiers
Council	Lower Galilee Regional Council
Coordinates	32°40′2″N 35°26′55″E
Population	318
Kfar Kisch

Kfar Kisch (or Kfar Kish; Hebrew: כְּפַר קִישׁ‎‎) is an agricultural cooperative (moshav) in Israel's the Lower Galilee Regional Council, alongside Mount Tabor. It was established in 1946 by Jewish soldiers demobilized from the British army after World War II, however political fractures led many of the founders to leave within the first year. A water shortage which forced the residents to transport water from the Tabor stream without proper equipment added to the problems, and until 1953 a steady stream of founding residents left the village. In that year conditions improved and Kfar Kisch began to absorb Jewish immigrants from Poland, Hungary, and the Soviet Union.^{[citation needed]}

The village was named after Zionist Commission leader Frederick Kisch.^{[citation needed]}

Kfar Kisch is on the land of the Palestinian village of Ma'dhar, south of the old village site.

Bibliography

• Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0-88728-224-5