Kfar Malal
Kfar Malal
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| Etymology: Moshe Leib Lilienblum village | |
  Kfar Malal | |
| Coordinates: 32°10′4.44″N 34°53′42.35″E / 32.1679000°N 34.8950972°E | |
| Country | Israel |
| District | Central |
| Council | Drom HaSharon |
| Affiliation | Moshavim Movement |
| Founded | 1911 |
| Population (2022) | 306[1] |
Kfar Malal (Template:Lang-he-n) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 306.[1]
History
The village was established in 1911 as "Ein Hai" (lit. Fountain of the Living) on privately-owned land.[2] It was later renamed Kfar Malal after Moshe Leib Lilienblum (משה לייב לילינבלום), an early leader of the Hovevei Zion movement, whose acronym in Hebrew is MLL (מל"ל).[3] The village was destroyed in the battles of World War I, resettled by a group of laborers and ravaged again in the 1921 Jaffa riots. In 1922, the land was transferred to the Jewish National Fund and Kfar Malal was rebuilt as a moshav. It suffered more attacks in the 1929 Arab riots.[2] Ariel Sharon, Israel's eleventh prime minister, who was born in Kfar Malal, Palestine, said that his mother slept with a rifle under her bed until her dying day due to the trauma of hiding in the cowshed with her children at night to escape roving Bedouin gangs.[4]
Economy
In 2006, Malal Park Industries Ltd, co-owned by members of Kfar Malal, signed an agreement with the German bank Eurohypo AG to refinance Park Azorim in Kiryat Aryeh, Petah Tikva. [5]
In 2009, NI Medical, a biotech company located in Kfar Malal, received approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a device that assesses left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD). The device aids physicians in detecting heart failure in its pre-clinical, asymptomatic phase.[6]
Notable citizens
References
- ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ a b Bard, Mitchell G. (2016). "Kefar Malal". Jewish Virtual Library. American–Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
- ^ Bard, Mitchell G. (2016). "Hovevei Zion". Jewish Virtual Library. American–Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
- ^ Lis, Jonathan (January 11, 2014). "Ariel Sharon, Former Israeli Prime Minister, Dies at 85". Haaretz. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
- ^ Germany's EuroHypo bank to refinance Park Azorim Archived 2011-08-29 at the Wayback Machine British Israel
- ^ Asymptomatic HF detection device receives FDA thumbs up Health Imaging
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