Kfar Yavetz

Kfar Yavetz כְּפַר יַעֲבֵץ‎
Kfar Yavetz
Coordinates: 32°16′30″N 34°57′53″E / 32.27500°N 34.96472°E / 32.27500; 34.96472
Country	Israel
District	Central
Council	Lev HaSharon
Affiliation	Hapoel HaMizrachi
Founded	10 April 1932
Population  (2022)[1]	661

Kfar Yavetz (Hebrew: כְּפַר יַעֲבֵץ, lit. 'Yavetz Village') is a religious moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near the Arab city of Tayibe, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lev HaSharon Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 661.^[1]

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The village was founded on 10 April 1932 as a kibbutz. It was named for Rabbi Ze'ev Yavetz, a founder of the Mizrachi movement.^[2]

As the kibbutz was situated on the front, opposite the Iraqi army sent as auxiliaries during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the inhabitants were evacuated for their safety, and the kibbutz was turned into army base.^[3] The residents resettled in Geulei Teiman and the village was rebuilt as a moshav in 1951, incorporating within it new immigrants from Yemen and from central Europe.^[3]

Kfar Yavetz is located in the heart of the Triangle, near the Wadi Ara highway.

On 7 July 2003 Mazal Afari, 65, a resident of Kfar Yavetz was killed in her home in a suicide bombing carried out by Islamic Jihad. Afari, a mother of eight, was waiting for her husband and sons to return from synagogue. The terrorist slipped into the house unnoticed and detonated a bomb he was carrying in a bag.^[4] Three of her grandchildren were injured in the attack.^[5] The house was destroyed in the blast.^[6]