Kfar Saba
Kfar Saba (Hebrew כפר סבא, Arabic كفار سافا ) is situated on the border with the West Bank, a city in Israel in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, about 15 kilometers northeast of Tel Aviv.
History
The origins of settlement date back to the time of the Second Temple. This can be shown by several mentions of the city in the Talmud as Chabarzaba.
Today Kfar Saba was, however, from a small agricultural settlement ( Moschawa ), which was founded in 1892.
On 6 August 1910 were Arabs from Qalqiliya the then small village and destroyed it.
During the First World War, Kfar Saba served as town collecting for many refugees from Jaffa and Tel Aviv. End of the war the city came between the English and Turkish lines and was destroyed again. The reconstruction was progressing slowly, as the Arabs Kfar Saba in 1921 again devastated. From 1922, the cultivation of citrus fruits was, thanks to new settlers, encouraged.
Today's city
Today Kfar Saba is a significant, marked by industrial city in the Southern Plain of Sharon with more than 80,000 inhabitants. The Kibbutz Nir Eliyahu and Beit Berl college campuses are in the immediate neighborhood, but are administratively to the Regional Association Drom HaScharon.
Twinning
Kfar Saba is twinned with the following cities:
- Netherlands Delft, 1968
- Wiesbaden Germany, since 1979
- Germany Mülheim an der Ruhr, since 1993
- Costa Rica San Jose, since 1995
- United States Columbus, Ohio, since 2000
- Israel Beit Jann, since 2006
- People's Republic of China Jinan, since 2007