Kfar Shmaryahu (, ) is a local council in Israel, within the Tel Aviv District.
History
Kfar Shmaryahu was founded in May 1937, during the
Fifth Aliyah.
The founding members were German-Jewish immigrants, who named the village after
Shmaryahu Levin (1867–1935), a Russian-born Jewish Zionist leader.
[Hareouveni, Emanouel (1974). The Settlements of Israel and Their Archaeological sites (in Hebrew). Israel: Hakibbutz Hameuchad. p. 191] The village was founded as an agricultural community, with forty farms, thirty auxiliary farms, and twenty lots for housing projects. A well was drilled, and a synagogue that became the center of community life was also built. In late 1938, 60 families were living there, and the predominant language was
German language. Throughout the following years the town absorbed new immigrants. In 1950 it was declared a local council and was granted additional land.
Status
Kfar Shmaryahu is an affluent suburb of Tel Aviv. It is ranked very highly on the Israeli socio-economic scale (10 out of 10).
According to
Yedioth Ahronoth, Kfar Shmaryahu's municipality annually spends NIS 8,700 per resident, a figure higher than
Tel Aviv and over twice as high as
Jerusalem.
In it had a population of .
Notable residents
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