Kfar Hoshen
{{Short description|Moshav in northern Israel}}
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| founded = 1949
| founded_by = Bulgarian-Jewish immigrants
| district = north
| council = Merom HaGalil
| affiliation = Moshavim Movement
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| population = {{Israel populations|Kefar Hoshen}}
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Kfar Hoshen ({{langx|he|כפר חושן}}), also known as Safsufa (ספסופה), is a moshav in northern Israel. Located around four kilometres north of Meron, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merom HaGalil Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Kefar Hoshen}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}
History
The moshav was founded in 1949 by immigrants to Israel from Bulgaria and with the support of the Moshavim Movement. The land had previously belonged to the Palestinian village of Safsaf, whose residents fled to Lebanon after the Safsaf massacre in October 1948 during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.{{cite book |last=Morris |first=Benny |author-link=Benny Morris |title=The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C |page=xxi |year=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9780521009676}}{{Citation|title=All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_By7AAAAIAAJ |first1=Walid|last1=Khalidi|authorlink=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies|isbn=0-88728-224-5|page=491}} The population was added in early years of the state by Jewish immigrants from Yemen and Aden, and starting in 1953 immigrants from Morocco and Tunisia also came.
The original name "Safsufa" is based on an identical name found in the Jerusalem Talmud,Jerusalem Talmud, Terumot, 8:4 whose name is preserved in the village Safsaf; the Hebrew word "Safsaf" means an area where fruits ripen later than usual.Hareuveni, Imanuel (2010). [https://kotar.cet.ac.il/KotarApp/Viewer.aspx?nBookID=93576566#725.2475.6.default Eretz Israel Lexicon] (in Hebrew). Matach. p. 724.
The residents work in agriculture and tourism.
Notable residents
References
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Category:Populated places in Northern District (Israel)
Category:Populated places established in 1949
Category:1949 establishments in Israel
Category:Bulgarian-Jewish culture in Israel
Category:Moroccan-Jewish culture in Israel