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Kfar Darom כְּפַר דָּרוֹם | |
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  Kfar Darom | |
| Coordinates:31°24′05″N34°21′36″E / 31.40139°N 34.36000°E /31.40139; 34.36000 | |
| Region | Gaza Strip |
| Affiliation | Religious Kibbutz Movement |
| Founded | 1930 (original) 1970 (re-establishment) |
| Founded by | Hapoel HaMizrachi members |
Kfar Darom (Hebrew:כְּפַר דָּרוֹם,lit. South Village) was akibbutz and anIsraeli settlement within theGush Katif bloc in theGaza Strip.
Kfar Darom was founded on 250dunams of land (about 25 hectares or 60 acres) purchased in 1930 by Tuvia Miller for a fruit orchard on the site of an ancient Jewish settlement of the same name mentioned in theTalmud. Following the1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, Miller sold his land to theJewish National Fund in 1946. A community was established on the land at the close ofYom Kippur on 5 and 6 October 1946,[1] byHapoel HaMizrachi's kibbutz movement as part of the11 points in the Negev settlement plan.
In the summer of 1948, afternumerous battles, the community was abandoned following a three-month siege by theEgyptian Army during the1948 Arab–Israeli War.[2]
Following Israel's victory in theSix-Day War in 1967, and its subsequent occupation of theGaza Strip, aNahal military outpost was established at the site in 1970.[3] In 1989, this was converted to a civilian community by the Israeli national unity government ofShimon Peres (Alignment) andYitzhak Shamir (Likud).
The village also had an elementary school, akollel for religious (adult married men) students and the "Torah and Land" Institute, for research into religious laws relating to agriculture in Israel. Thevisitor center contained the Garden of Commandments Museum, which illustratedcommandments relating to theLand of Israel.
The site of the former kibbutz is thePalestinian agricultural townWadi as-Salqa.
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At the point of thedisengagement plan in 2005, there were about sixty families, totaling about 330 people, who earned their living from the free working professions, agriculture, and a central packing center for the vegetables produced by the Gaza settler communities.
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