Kfar Maimon Explained

Foundation:1959
Founded By:Bnei Akiva members
District:south
Council:Sdot Negev
Affiliation:Hapoel HaMizrachi
Pushpin Map:Israel northwest negev#Israel
Pushpin Mapsize:250
Pushpin Label Position:right
Coordinates:31.4319°N 34.5364°W

Kfar Maimon (Hebrew: כְּפַר מַיְמוֹן||Maimon Village) is a religious moshav in southern Israel. Located near Netivot and covering 5,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Sdot Negev Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History

The village was established in 1959 with the assistance of Jewish Colonisation Association by a gar'in of Bnei Akiva members and was named after Yehuda Leib Maimon, a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence and the first Minister of Religions.[1]

In 2005 the village was the site of a non-violent standoff between tens of thousands of protesters against the Gaza disengagement plan, with police encircling the protesters who had started in Netivot to stop them from continuing their march to Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip.[2] The mass influx of demonstrators overloaded mobile telephone and other services in the small agricultural village.

The French High School Lycée Thorani is based in the village.[3]

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172529/http://eng.negev-net.org.il/HTMLs/article.aspx?C2004=12649 Kfar Maimon
  2. News: Myre . Greg . Israel moves ahead on Gaza withdrawal . . July 21, 2005 . April 17, 2019.
  3. News: Sabag . Virginie . February 11, 2018 . SPECIAL - L'éducation en français/bilingue en Israël jusqu'au BAC . SPECIAL: Bilingual/French Education in Israel until the Baccalaureate . . fr . April 17, 2019.