Kfar Tavor

Kfar Tabor (Hebrew כפר תבור ) is a village in the Galilee region in the North District of Israel.

History

The village at the foot of Mount Tabor was founded in October 1901 by Jews of the first settlement shaft ( " aliyah " ) under the name of the Arabian mountain village Mas'ha. The settlers came from Zichron Yaakov, Metulla, Rosh Pina and Shefaya.

In 1903 they named their settlement. Menachem Ussishkin, a Zionist leader, had been surprised at a passage that Jewish settlement was not wearing a Hebrew name. After his proposal, the settlement was named after the nearby Mount Tabor. The town has 2700 inhabitants ( 2008).