Kfar Shmaryahu Colony

Kfar Shmaryahu is a settlement located in the central region of the occupied Palestinian territory, within the Tel Aviv area. It was established in May 1937 near the depopulated village of al-Haram in the Jaffa district during the Fifth Aliyah (immigration wave). The founding members were Zionist immigrants from Germany, who named the village Shmaryahu Levin (1867–1935), after a Jewish Zionist leader born in Russia. The settlement was founded as an agricultural community, consisting of forty farms, thirty auxiliary farms, and twenty plots of land designated for housing projects. A well was dug, and a synagogue was built, which became the center of community life. By late 1938, 60 Zionist families lived there, with German being the predominant language. Over the following years, the town absorbed new immigrants. In 1950, it was declared a local council and granted additional land, covering an area of approximately 2.6 square kilometers. Kfar Shmaryahu is a wealthy suburb of Tel Aviv, ranking very high on the Israeli socio-economic scale (10 out of 10). According to the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, the Kfar Shmaryahu municipality spends 8,700 shekels per resident annually, a figure higher than Tel Aviv and more than double that of Jerusalem. In 2022, the number of settlers in Kfar Shmaryahu was 1,951. Sources: Due to limited Arabic sources, Hebrew sources were used, including the settlement’s Hebrew website and the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. Information about the village of al-Haram was obtained from .