Kfar Yona

Kfar Yona (Hebrew: כְּפַר יוֹנָה, Arabic: كفار يونا‎) is a city in the Sharon subdistrict in the Center District of Israel. It is about 7 km east of Netanya. In 2013, the population was over 20,500, and its jurisdiction – 11,017 dunams (~11 km²). In 2014, Kfar Yona's official status was changed from a local council to a city.

History

Kfar Yona was established on lands in the Sharon plain purchased in 1932 from Mustafa Bushnaq and the Shanti family of Qalqilya.

Kfar Yona (Yona's village) is named for Jean (Yona) Fischer, a Belgian Zionist. It was founded on Tu Bishvat, January 23, 1932 by Morris Fischer, Yona's son, a member of the World Jewish Congress, and was originally named Gan Yona (Yona's Garden).

In the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Kfar Yona was on the front lines, and its defenders faced the Iraqi Army, which sought to reach Netanya and cut the Jewish forces in Israel in half. The new Israel Defense Forces repelled the Iraqi attacks and forced them back into the Samarian mountains, although Kfar Yona remained the easternmost Jewish settlement in the area. As a result of the 1949 Armistice Agreements, the border moved from Kfar Yona 8 km eastward, to just west of Tulkarm.

Yona

The word Yona in Pali and the Prakrits, and the analogue "Yavana" in Sanskrit are words used in the Ancient India to designate Greek speakers. "Yona" and "Yavana" are transliterations of the Greek word for "Ionians" (Homeric Greek: Ἰάoνες, Ancient Greek: *Ἰάϝoνες), who were probably the first Greeks to be known in the East.

The Yavanas are mentioned in the Majjhima Nikaya, in which Gautama Buddha mentions to the Brahman Assalayana the existence of the Kamboja and Yona people who have only two castes, master or slave.

Examples of direct association of these with the Greeks include:

Yona (disambiguation)

Yona is a Pali word used to refer to speakers of Greek.

Yona may also refer to:

See also

Yona (film)

Yona (Hebrew: יונה‎) is a 2014 Israeli drama film directed by Nir Bergman. It has been nominated for the Ophir Award for Best Film.

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