Kfar Mordechai

Kfar Mordechai
כְּפַר מָרְדְּכַי
Kfar Mordechai
Coordinates: 31°49′52.26″N 34°45′24.96″E / 31.8311833°N 34.7569333°E / 31.8311833; 34.7569333Coordinates: 31°49′52.26″N 34°45′24.96″E / 31.8311833°N 34.7569333°E / 31.8311833; 34.7569333
District Central
Council Gederot
Affiliation Agricultural Union
Founded 26 June 1939
Population (2015)[1] 655

Kfar Mordechai (Hebrew: כְּפַר מָרְדְּכַי) is a moshav in central Israel. Located about 30 kilometers south of Tel Aviv, between Ashdod, Gedera and Yavne, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gederot Regional Council. In 2015 it had a population of 655.

History

The village was established in 1950 by British and South African Jews and by some ex-kibbutz members, near the ruins of a Arab village of Bashshit. It was named after Mordechai Eliash, Israel's first ambassador to the United Kingdom. When the first settlers (Olim) arrived they discovered that the houses had not yet been built and they were housed in semi-detatched huts (tzrifim) consisting of one large room, one kitchen and one toilet sited about a kilometer from their allocated farms. Here they languished for 12 months waiting for Rassco, the national builders to put up their homes. Eventually they got Rassco to agree to supply the materials and they self-built their homes. Since the many of the settlers had come from white collar backgrounds, the houses they built were never going to stand the test of time and today the homes are modern, well built and the original houses are long gone.

Notable residents

References

  1. "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 October 2016.


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