Kfar Yona

Kfar Yona is a metropolis within the Sharon subdistrict inside the Central District of Israel. It is set 7 km east of Netanya. With a jurisdiction of 11,017 dunams. In 2017 it had a populace of 22,537. In 2014, Kfar Yona's legitimate fame become modified from a local council to a metropolis. Kfar Yona become set up on lands in the Sharon undeniable bought in 1932 from Mustafa Bushnaq and the Shanti family of Qalqilya. Kfar Yona is known as for Jean Fischer, a Belgian Zionist. It become founded on Tu Bishvat, January 23, 1932 by Morris Fischer, Yona's son, a member of the World Jewish Congress, and turned into originally named Gan Yona.

In the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Kfar Yona become on the the front traces, and its defenders confronted the Iraqi Army, which sought to attain Netanya and cut the Jewish forces in Israel in half. The new Israel Defense Forces repelled the Iraqi assaults and pressured them lower back into the Samarian mountains, even though Kfar Yona remained the easternmost Jewish agreement inside the vicinity. As a end result of the 1949 Armistice Agreements, the border moved from Kfar Yona 8 km eastward, to just west of Tulkarm.