Kfar Shmaryahu Settlement

Kfar Shmaryahu is a settlement located in the central occupied Palestinian territories, within the Tel Aviv area. It was established in May 1937 near the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Haram in the Jaffa district, during the Fifth Aliyah. The founders were Zionist immigrants from Germany, and they named it after Shmaryahu Levin (1867–1935), one of the leaders of the Zionist movement, born in Russia.

The settlement was founded as an agricultural community comprising forty farms, thirty auxiliary farms, and twenty plots of land allocated for residential construction. A well was dug and a synagogue was built, which became the center of community life. By the end of 1938, about 60 families were living there, and German was the dominant language. In subsequent years it received more immigrants. In 1950, it was declared a local council and granted additional land, bringing its area to about 2.6 square kilometers.

Kfar Shmaryahu is a wealthy suburb of Tel Aviv, classified among the highest socioeconomic levels (10 out of 10 on the Israeli scale). According to Yedioth Ahronoth, the Kfar Shmaryahu municipality spends about 8,700 shekels annually per person, an amount exceeding what Tel Aviv spends and more than double what Jerusalem spends. Its population in 2022 was about 1,951 people.

Sources:Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, the following Hebrew sources were relied upon:

• The settlement's official website (Hebrew)

• Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics

• Information on the village of al-Haram from the aforementioned website.