Kfar Tavor

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Kfar Tavor

Kfar Tavor is a village in the Lower Galilee region of northern Israel, at the foot of Mount Tabor. Founded in 1901, it was awarded local council status in 1949. In 2003, Kfar Tavor had a population of 2,300.

Tavor was founded by the children of pioneers who settled in Palestine during the First Aliyah. They arrived from the agricultural settlements of Zichron Yaakov, Metulla, Rosh Pina, and Shefaya.

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Kfar Tavor was founded by the children of pioneers who settled in Palestine during the First Aliyah. They arrived from the agricultural settlements of Zichron Yaakov, Metulla, Rosh Pina, and Shefaya. The new settlement was originally known as Mas'ha, the name of the nearby Arab

Arab

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village. It was renamed in 1903 at the urging of Zionist

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leader Menachem Ussishkin who visited the site and was surprised to find it had no Hebrew

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name. At first, there was some debate over whether to use the term kfar ("village"), which some residents thought would bode badly for future growth. Ussishkin responded that he had visited the German

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town of Düsseldorf

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, which had also originated as a dorf, or village, but was now a full-fledged city.

Kfar Tavor is the birthplace of Yigal Allon

Yigal Allon

Yigal Allon was an Israeli politician, a commander of the Palmach, and a general in the Israel Defense Forces. He served as one of the leaders of Ahdut HaAvoda and the Labor Party ), acting Prime Minister of Israel, as well as being a member of Knesset and government minister from the tenth through the seventeenth Knessets....
.

Camp Tavor

Camp Tavor

Camp Tavor is an overnight Jewish youth camp affiliated with Habonim Dror located in Three Rivers, Michigan, United States. The camp promotes the ideals of the youth movement to roughly 200 participating youth each summer....
, a Habonim Dror

Habonim Dror

Habonim Dror is a secular Labour Zionism youth movement formed by the merger in 1982 of the Habonim and Dror youth movements.Habonim Dror's sister movement in Israel is Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed, the Working and Studying Youth....
summer camp in Western Michigan, United States, maintains ties with Kfar Tavor.