Kafr-Qara

Kafr Qara or Kafr - Qaraa ( Arabic كفر قرع; Hebrew כַּפְר קַרִע; German, pumpkin village ') is an Arab city in Israel. Kafr Qara - located northwest of Wadi Ara or the Green Line in al - Muthallath al -sha mali ( northern triangle) Israel and 44 kilometers southeast of Haifa. The name Kafr Qara - or kufr Qaraa comes from the word Qara ( a), which in German means pumpkin, and leads to the former pumpkin growing in the city back.

The population is about 16,342 (December 2011 ) and the floor area is approximately 11.5 km ². All residents of the city are Muslim Arabs.

Boroughs

Kafr Qara - consists of 13 districts:

  • Satalin
  • Al - Aork
  • Al - Sanadhaoui
  • Al - Dscholan al - Kharbi
  • Al - Haouarni
  • Bir al -
  • Al - Maafahir
  • Al - Balda al-Qadima/al-Baried
  • Al - Qhazaylien
  • Al - Qaria al - Taaliemia
  • Al - Nasasa
  • Khalat aa- sakiea
  • Sidr al - Aaros

Education

Kafr Qara - seeking is characterized by a high rate of university graduates who have completed their degree at universities, either within or outside the country. Among other things, there lives a higher number of physicians (14 physicians per 1000 population ) than in other villages and towns in the country ( according to statistics of the daily newspaper Jedi'ot Aharonot 2010). 85.5 % have passed the Abitur in 2010 ( the graduates rate in Israel as a whole during the same period, 75%).

Train

In Kafr Qara - there are the following schools:

  • Al - Ibtidaiya " Alif " (al- al - Domkratiya Mojadita. )
  • Al - Ibtidaiya " Bā " (al- Hakim )
  • Al - Ibtidaiya " Dschīm " (al- Mostakbal )
  • Al - Ibtidaiya " dal " (al- Haouarni )
  • Iaadadaiya " Alif " ( Ibn -Sina )
  • Iaadadaiya " Bā " (al- Salam )
  • Al - Nahada al - Ahalyia High School (7th - 12th grade)
  • Kafr Qara - al - Schamilaa -Gymnasium ( Ahmad Abdallah -Gymnasium )
  • Technical high school ( Ibn al - Nafies -Gymnasium )
  • Technical High School ( Naamat -Gymnasium )

In addition, 10 public kindergartens and more than 10 preschools are available. In addition, Kafr Qara - has a club for the gifted students in the city. For the school year 2012/2013 is the construction of a school for autistic children on the plan.

Bilingual School

Kfar Qara - is one of the few places that have the idea of ​​bilingual schools, which are visited by Arabs and Jews alike taken up; it was the school Yasser eel al-Wadi/yadan bi - yad Ibtidaiya (German, Bridge over the Wadi / Hand in Hand Primary School ' ) was founded.

Because of the Second Intifada in October 2000, met a group of ten Arabs and Jews from Wadi Ara, the decision to establish a common school as a response to violence and hatred. The mayor offered the group to a school next to the school, which today, Jewish and Arab students successfully combined after the approval of the Israeli Ministry of Education. The elementary school was founded by the Center for Jewish-Arab Education " Hand in Hand" 2004 " Bridge over the Wadi " is the third bilingual school in the country. The motto of the school is: education with human values ​​such as mutual respect, equality among people, integrity, justice, trust and tolerance. In school, inter alia, the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian culture is taught. In addition, the students the principles of democracy and social equality on simple, practical way will be taught. In the first year of its existence (2004/2005), the school had a total of 105 students, from kindergarten to third grade. In the following school year, the number has risen to 180. The students come from both the settlements in the area of Kufr Qaraa as Katzir - Harish, Pardes Hanna- Karkur, An Iron and Givat Ada and from other Arab towns and villages such as Ara, and Baqa al - Ar'ara Gharbiyye and from Kufr itself Qaraa 2006, 50 % of students Arabs and 50% Jews.

Other institutions

  • Masjid Quba
  • Masjid al - Nour
  • Masjid al - Nida Haq
  • Masjid Umar ibn al -Khattab
  • Masjid Abu Bakr as - Siddiq
  • Masjid Fatima az- Zahra
  • Masjid al - Sanadhaoui
  • Masjid al - Haouarni
  • Bank Hapoalim. ( Bank for Workers )
  • Al - Bank al -Arabi al - Israeli. (Arab - Israel Bank)
  • Al - Baried. (Postbank )
  • 3 surgeries for children
  • 5 Health Maintenance Organizations
  • 3 Leisure Gardens
  • A training center for disabled
  • A marginal institution for early childhood education
  • An entertainment center for the elderly
  • A Cultural Mitnas
  • A Research / composite al - Zahraoui
  • A youth club Iehissan
  • A student organization al - Qalam
  • A charity for disabled al - Schafaa & al - Rahama

Sports

Football is the favorite sport in Kfar Qara -, there are two football teams playing in different leagues:

  • Maccabi Baladi Kufr Qaraa (2nd league)
  • Hapoel Kufr Qaraa (3rd League )
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