Kfar Brandeis

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Kfar Brandeis (lit: Brandeis village) is a suburb of the Israeli city of Hadera.

Kfar Brandeis was founded in 1927, named after Louis Brandeis, an American supreme court judge and the founder of "The Economic Company for the Land of Israel". The company purchased land South of Hadera from a Bedouin clan in order to settle forty families there. Each family received a farm of 20 chickens and one cow, a share in a joint orchard and a little home with one room, a small kitchen and a balcony.

Towards the end of 1928, the forty houses were ready to house the new settlers, and the company had also given comfort purchasing conditions. As time went by, the farms began to grow but there were no jobs to provide the settlers daily needs. There was an attempt to grow Jasmine flowers for the Baron Rothchild's perfume factory in Binyamina, but this didn't work out.

During the 1929 Palestine riots the citizens of Brandeis were evacuated to Hadera, although the men returned to guard the settlement farms, armed with only one hunting gun and a few bayonets. The settlers also suffered during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, as Arab mobs destroyed part of their orchard and murdered a number of citizens.

Kfar Brandeis, which was originally an autonomous municipal district, was integrated into Hadera after the foundation of The State of Israel in 1948, remaining independent just with regards to water.

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