Kfar Shmaryahu
Kfar Shmaryahu
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| • ISO 259 | Kpar Šmaryahu | |
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 Kfar Shmaryahu
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| Coordinates: 32°11′5.88″N 34°49′12.45″E / 32.1849667°N 34.8201250°ECoordinates: 32°11′5.88″N 34°49′12.45″E / 32.1849667°N 34.8201250°E | ||
| District | Tel Aviv | |
| Founded | 1937 | |
| Government | ||
| • Type | Local council | |
| • Head of Municipality | Dror Aloni | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 2,570 dunams (2.57 km2 or 640 acres) | |
| Population (2015) | ||
| • Total | 1,856 | |
Kfar Shmaryahu (Hebrew: כְּפַר שְׁמֵרְיָהוּ, Arabic: كفر شمرياهو) is a local council in Israel, within the Tel Aviv District. The council was founded in 1937, during the Fifth Aliyah to Israel. The village is named after Shmaryahu Levin (1867–1935), a Russian-born Jewish Zionist leader. In 2015 it had a population of 1,856.
Originally an agricultural community Kfar Shmaryahu became an affluent suburb of Tel Aviv. It is ranked very highly on the Israeli socio-economic scale (10 out of 10). According to Yedioth Ahronoth, Kfar Shmaryahu's municipality annually spends NIS 8,700 per resident, a figure higher than Tel Aviv and over twice as high as Jerusalem.
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