Kfar Brandeis
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Kfar Brandeis is a suburb of the Israel
i city of Hadera
.
Kfar Brandeis was founded in 1927, named after Louis Brandeis
, an American supreme court
judge and the founder of "The Economic Company for the Land of Israel". The company purchased land South of Hadera
from a Bedouin
clan in order to settle forty families there. Each family received a farm of 20 chicken
s and one cow, a share in a joint orchard and a little home with one room, a small kitchen and a balcony.
Towards the end of 1928, the forty houses were ready to house the new settlers, and the company had also given comfort purchasing conditions. As time went by, the farms began to grow but there were no jobs to provide the settlers daily needs. There was an attempt to grow Jasmine
flowers for the Baron Rothschild
's perfume factory in Binyamina, but this didn't work out.
During the 1929 Palestine riots
the citizens of Brandeis were evacuated to Hadera, although the men returned to guard the settlement farms, armed with only one hunting gun and a few bayonets. The settlers also suffered during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, as Arab mobs destroyed part of their orchard and murdered a number of citizens.
Kfar Brandeis, which was originally an autonomous municipal district, was integrated into Hadera after the foundation of The State of Israel
in 1948, remaining independent just with regards to water.
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i city of Hadera
Hadera
Hadera is a city located in the Haifa District of Israel approximately from the major cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. The city is located along of the Israeli Mediterranean Coastal Plain...
.
Kfar Brandeis was founded in 1927, named after Louis Brandeis
Louis Brandeis
Louis Dembitz Brandeis ; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents who raised him in a secular mode...
, an American supreme court
Supreme court
A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of many legal jurisdictions. Other descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, instance court, judgment court, high court, or apex court...
judge and the founder of "The Economic Company for the Land of Israel". The company purchased land South of Hadera
Hadera
Hadera is a city located in the Haifa District of Israel approximately from the major cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. The city is located along of the Israeli Mediterranean Coastal Plain...
from a Bedouin
Bedouin
The Bedouin are a part of a predominantly desert-dwelling Arab ethnic group traditionally divided into tribes or clans, known in Arabic as ..-Etymology:...
clan in order to settle forty families there. Each family received a farm of 20 chicken
Chicken
The chicken is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the Red Junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, and with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird...
s and one cow, a share in a joint orchard and a little home with one room, a small kitchen and a balcony.
Towards the end of 1928, the forty houses were ready to house the new settlers, and the company had also given comfort purchasing conditions. As time went by, the farms began to grow but there were no jobs to provide the settlers daily needs. There was an attempt to grow Jasmine
Jasmine
Jasminum , commonly known as jasmines, is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family . It contains around 200 species native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Old World...
flowers for the Baron Rothschild
Rothschild family
The Rothschild family , known as The House of Rothschild, or more simply as the Rothschilds, is a Jewish-German family that established European banking and finance houses starting in the late 18th century...
's perfume factory in Binyamina, but this didn't work out.
During the 1929 Palestine riots
1929 Palestine riots
The 1929 Palestine riots, also known as the Western Wall Uprising, the 1929 Massacres, , or the Buraq Uprising , refers to a series of demonstrations and riots in late August 1929 when a long-running dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated into violence...
the citizens of Brandeis were evacuated to Hadera, although the men returned to guard the settlement farms, armed with only one hunting gun and a few bayonets. The settlers also suffered during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, as Arab mobs destroyed part of their orchard and murdered a number of citizens.
Kfar Brandeis, which was originally an autonomous municipal district, was integrated into Hadera after the foundation of The State of Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
in 1948, remaining independent just with regards to water.