History
Kfar Chabad was established in 1949 by Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn. The first inhabitants were mostly recent immigrants from the Soviet Union, survivors of World War II and Stalinist oppression. The site was originally a Palestinian village called Al-Safiriyya, which was depopulated after the 1948 war. As late as 1957, it was referred to in Hebrew as Tzafrir.
Regarding their Aliyah, the "Jewish Observer" reported: “There were several noteworthy aspect of this Aliyah. The Chabad members refused all offers of help from religious and political organizations; they insisted on going on the land. Adapting themselves to modern agricultural methods... To them it was a point of honor to live as they taught. This meant subsisting only on what they earned by their own toil."
Kfar Chabad, which is located just outside Lod and about 8 km south-east of Tel Aviv, includes agricultural lands as well as numerous educational institutions. It serves as the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement in Israel. Kfar Chabad is a Lubavitch community. In 1956, fedayeen terrorists entered the synagogue during morning prayers and murdered five children and one teacher, another ten were injured.
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