Kfar Sirkin

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Kfar Sirkin

Kfar Sirkin or Kefar Syrkin is a moshav

Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms settlered by the Labor Zionisms during the second aliyah ....
in Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
within the municipal jurisdiction of the Drom HaSharon Regional Council

Drom HaSharon Regional Council

The Drom HaSharon Regional Council is a Regional council in the Sharon, Israel region in Center District Israel. Its offices are located on Highway 40 near Neve Yarak....
near the city of Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, north-east of Tel Aviv. Petah Tikva's jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams ....
. Founded in 1933, it was named after the famous Zionist

Zionism

Zionism is the international Jewish political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine....
Nachman Syrkin

Nachman Syrkin

Nachman Syrkin or Nahman Syrkin was a political theorist and founder of Labour Zionism. Born in Russian Empire , Syrkin was influenced by Zionism and socialism in his youth and dedicated himself to synthesising the two concepts....
.

Kfar Sirkin served as a Jew

Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish stronghold in the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. The Haganah

Haganah

Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces....
used the village to fight off attacking Arab

Arab

An Arab is a person who Identity as such on linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs , refers to the Ethnocultural group at large....
forces and to store weapons which were illegal under the British Mandate rule of the time.

Today, the village is agricultural.

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