Hakfar Hayarok

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Hakfar Hayarok

Hakfar Hayarok (Hebrew: הכפר הירוק) is a youth village in Israel, located between the cities of Tel Aviv and Ramat HaSharon. It is one of the biggest youth villages in the country.

The village was founded by Gershon Zack in 1950 (later it was named for the third Prime Minister of Israel, Levi Eshkol) and originally was an agricultural village for immigrants. Over the years, the number of students began to grow and so did the village.

Today, the village has over 1000 students (both residential students and external students). Many teachers on the staff make their permanent home on the campus of the village. Each year a group of recent high school graduates doing "Shnat Sherut" volunteer service prior to their IDF induction, come to live in the village as program counselors for the residential students.

Within the village there is an anthroposophical school: the Waldorf Urim school, which houses a teacher training seminary and a kindergarten that operates according to the Waldorf (or Steiner) method. There is also a small zoo inside the village used for both fun and learning together.

The nearby highway interchange is called "Hakfar Hayarok interchange".