Kfar Ruth

Kfar Ruth
כְּפַר רוּת‎
Kfar Ruth is located in Central Israel
Kfar Ruth
Kfar Ruth
Coordinates: 31°54′36″N 35°2′8″E / 31.91000°N 35.03556°E / 31.91000; 35.03556
DistrictCentral
CouncilHevel Modi'in
AffiliationMoshavim Movement
Founded1977
Population
 (2022)[1]
275

Kfar Ruth (Hebrew: כְּפַר רוּת, lit. 'Ruth's Village') is an Israeli settlement organised as a moshav. It was established in 1977 in an area that had become a no-man's land between Israel and Jordanian-controlled West Bank at the end of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, before becoming part of the Israeli-occupied territories in the 1967 Six-Day War.[2] It falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council and had a population of 275 in 2022.[1]

History

The settlement was established in 1977 and was named after the ancient village of Capheruta that appears on the Madaba Map.[3] Capheruta is identified with the adjacent Khirbet Kafr Lut.[4] Prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War some of the land had belonged to the Palestinian village of al-Burj, which was depopulated in the war.[5] According to ARIJ, after the Six-Day War, Israel confiscated 814 dunams of land from the Palestinian village of Saffa for the construction of Kfar Ruth.[6]

Economy

According to archeologists, grapes were grown in the region by the inhabitants of Modi'in. Tal Maor, a resident of Kfar Ruth, has revived the age-old tradition of winemaking through the establishment of a family winery, Ruth Vineyard.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  2. ^ Eldar, Akiva (2007-10-23). "Border Control Sovereign Over No-man's Land". Haaretz.com. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  3. ^ Ben Yosef, Sfi, ed. (2001). מדריך ישראל החדש – השפלה [New Israel Guide – the Shfela] (in Hebrew). Vol. 10. Keter.
  4. ^ Claudine Dauphin (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations, Vol. III : Catalogue. BAR International Series 726. Oxford: Archeopress. p. 837.
  5. ^ Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 371. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  6. ^ Saffa village profile, ARIJ, p. 17
  7. ^ "Ruth Vineyard". Archived from the original on 2008-12-30. Retrieved 2009-07-15.