Ka?ir ?arish
KA?IR ?ARISH
KA?IR ?ARISH (Heb. ?????? ???????), urban community in northern Israel. Ka?ir ?arish is located in the eastern hills of Wadi 'Arra, and is an amalgamation of two settlements, with an area of 2.3 sq. mi. (6 sq. km.). Ka?ir was established as a community in 1982 by a group *Hita?dut ha-Ikkarim (Farmers Association) settlers, with assistance from the *Jewish Agency. ?arish was established as a kibbutz by Ha-Kibbutz ha-Artzi, also with the assistance of the Jewish Agency, southwest of Ka?ir. Neither settlement succeeded in expanding as expected. In the beginning of the 1990s, Ka?ir numbered just 30 families, while ?arish was abandoned by its founders in 1993. But with the mass immigration of the 1990s, Ka?ir and ?arish were selected to be included in the "star plan" aimed at populating settlements bordering on Judea and Samaria. In 1992 the government decided to unite the two settlements in a single municipal council. In 2002 its population was 3,500. The majority of the residents work outside the settlement, mainly in ?aderah, Haifa, and Tel Aviv.
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