Kfar Tapuach

Kfar Tapuach כפר תפוח‎
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Kfar Tapuach
Coordinates:
District	Judea and Samaria Area
Region	West Bank
Affiliation	Jewish
Founded	1978
Founded by	The Jewish Agency
Population (2015)	1,036
Name meaning	Appleville

Kfar Tapuach (Hebrew: כְּפַר תַּפּוּחַ‎, lit. Apple-ville) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, founded in 1978. It sits astride one of the major traffic junctions in the West Bank. The executive director of the village council is Yisrael Blunder. As of December 2015, it had 1,036 residents.<refhttp://www.inn.co.il/Articles/Article.aspx/14370</ref> The chief rabbi is Shimon Rosenzwieg.

The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.

The town is located near the archaeological site of Tapuach, which appears in the Bible in the Book of Joshua chapter 12 as one of the first 31 cities conquered by Joshua Bin-Nun and the children of Israel. The book of Joshua 17:8 places Tapuach at the border between the territory of the sons of Joseph, the tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim.

Demographics

Although its population consists entirely of Jews, Kfar Tapuach is one of the more diverse Israeli settlements, with its population coming from a range of backgrounds. Founded by a core of Habbani Yemenite Jews from the town of Bareket, it has since absorbed Jewish immigrants from Russia and the United States, a large group of Peruvian converts to Judaism from Trujillo, Peru, and others. Between February 2004 and August 2009, over 90 new families moved to Kfar Tapuach.

Public services

• Four synagogues, two of which have three minyanim (prayer gatherings) daily and evening Torah classes; all four are fully functional on Shabbat.
• Two Mikvaot (ritual baths), one for women and one for men.
• A nursery school and three kindergartens with a playground.
• A qualified and experienced volunteer emergency medical and anti-terrorist team, ready and on call for whatever needs might occur.

Private businesses

Private businesses include a grocery store, mechanic garage, moving company, goat farm, honey bee farm, Klaf (leather parchment) factory, and a perfume factory.

See also

• Kahanism
• Meir Kahane
• Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane
• Mike Guzovsky
• David Ha'ivri

External links

• Tapuach Playground Project
• NYTimes Israel and U.S. Can’t Close Split on Settlements
• Olive wars, 2014, BBC

• Bitan, Hanna: 1948-1998: Fifty Years of 'Hityashvut': Atlas of Names of Settlements in Israel, Jerusalem 1999, Carta, p.34, ISBN 965-220-423-4 (Hebrew)
• Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p.266, ISBN 965-220-186-3 (English)