Avnei Chefetz

Religious communal settlement. Founded 1990 (by a group of Hesder yeshiva students in Karnei Shomron). Numbers about 200 national religious families. Located on the Tul Karem-Shechem highway (on the outskirts of Tul Karem, near the village of Shofeh). Mother cities – Kfar Saba and Netanya (most of the settlement’s residents work in or around these cities). The town is built on Administration of Abandoned Property lands, owned by the Land Redemption Fund.

320 families

Tel. 09-8987390
Fax 09-8987389
Mailing address: Avnei Chefetz, D.N. Lev HaShomron, 44861
e-mail: avne2004@netvision.net.il

Community activists
Community rabbi: Rabbi David Levy
Head of Secretariat: Tzvi Dardik
Assembly member: Ehud Studenia
Secretaries: Yaniv Peretz, Miri Gelber
Military Security Coordinator: Shlomi Cohen
Community Coordinator: Leah Sa’ad
Spokesperson: Hila Winograd Bisko
Youth Coordinator: Avichai Peretz
Community Emergency Team Chairman: Guy Zimmerman
Newsletter Editor: Meir Kalter

Synagogues

The town has six synagogues.

Educational Institutions

School – One for grades 1 to 6
Boarding school
Six kindergartens

Public buildings

Community center – at the edge of the rural neighborhood, very active and well maintained. Medical clinic, post office, market, two playgrounds, bomb shelters, caravans for the Bnei Akiva youth movement.

Shomron Towns	Barkan	Har Bracha	Hinanit	Itamar
Avnei Chefetz	Bruchin	Elon Moreh	Ganim	Homesh