Ramat Ef'al Colony

Ramat Ef'al is a neighborhood of Ramat Gan, located in central occupied Palestine. In 2007, it was incorporated into the municipality of Ramat Gan along with Kfar Azar. Originally planned as an urban kibbutz, Ramat Ef'al was established on 250 dunams of agricultural land that had been seized or purchased by the Zionist Jewish National Fund, near Kfar Azar. It was founded in 1969 on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Khayriyya, in the Jaffa district. The site had been the location of one of the early battles of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The first residents arrived in May 1947. On December 4, 1947, the kibbutz was attacked by 120 to 150 Palestinian resistance fighters from the nearby village of Salama. Defenders, including members of the Palmach, repelled the attack. After the 1948 war, the kibbutz expanded by acquiring an additional 1,000 dunams of land. Despite the kibbutz's favorable economic situation, tensions grew between members working in agriculture and those employed in the city. The internal split within the HaKibbutz HaMeuhad movement further weakened the kibbutz, and the departure of many residents left it vulnerable. In 1952, a decision was made to dissolve the kibbutz. Following its dissolution, there was a proposal to build a settlement for 400 immigrants from the United States on the site. However, these plans failed to materialize, and the area was instead developed into a neighborhood. During the First Intifada in 1992, Israeli police apprehended three Hamas operatives in Ramat Ef'al after a high-speed chase. Their vehicle was found to be rigged with explosives. During interrogation, Israeli forces learned the identity of the bomb’s designer — Yahya Ayyash, also known as "The Engineer." This marked the first known bomb constructed by Ayyash, and it bore notable similarities to his later operations. Sources: Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, we used “Hebrew” sources: the settlement’s Hebrew website / Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. The village of al-Khayriyya from the  website.