Last week the sky was lit up with the bright glow of tens of bon fires. Kfar Darom’s Lag B’Omer celebrations began with a large community bonfire. The children, of course, were in charge of gathering the wood while the adults were put to work making falafels and setting up the wood so that it […]

Over the past several months families from all over the country have been coming to Kfar Darom to see our community and consider living here. Most of the families come for a Shabbot, so as to receive the complete Kfar Darom experience (i.e. Sabbath prayers, meeting the families in a more intimate atmosphere – as […]

Since we don’t yet have a food store in Kfar Darom, and people don’t want to live only on the delicious lettuce and greens which the farmers in our community grow, we have to buy our food elsewhere. Many of the larger families buy their goods in the cities nearby, while smaller families, like ours […]

For the past few days the children of Kfar Darom have been working all day to eat all of the “Chamatz” (leavened wheat products) which accumulated over the past mouths, especially during Purim. Tonight, half an hour after “Bedikat Chametz” checking to make sure that everything is “Chamatz” free, we too (along with our neighbors) […]

Our community, Kfar Darom, is home to forty young growing families. During the day we also host 25-30 students who learn in the village Kollel Tal-Orot. Kfar Darom was first established in 1946 as one of the eleven points in the Negev. It proved to be strategically vital to the country when is succeeded in […]

It’s 12:00, the school bell rings and children from grades 1-8 pour our of their makeshift classrooms (which are in portable homes). Holding candies and art projects, they hurry home to help their families prepare for the Sabbath. Just three months ago, these same children attended school in the Gush Katif communities: Neve Dekalim and […]

Many people ask me how and why I decided to move to Israel and now live in Kfar Darom. I guess the answer is similar to that of most people who took the same path in life. My story begins 21 years ago in Miami, Florida where I was born and raised. Having grown up […]

The aid given to the Allied campaign against the Turks by the Arab Revolt was minor aind negligible; Lawrence himself in one of his outbursts of near penitence, once described it as "a sideshow of a sideshow." ‘Though the Sherif Hussein did send out his call for an Arab rising throughout the Ottoman Empire, in […]

Who today remembers a ship called Rimfrost? Or Franca Maria, or Capetan Manolis? Who remembers Inge Toft and Astypatea? The sailors who manned them, no doubt, and the merchants whose cargoes they carried. In the 1950s they, and many others like them, were actors in the drama of the continuing and allembracing Arab attack on […]

Early in the First World War, after the defeat at Gallipoli, a group of senior British officers serving in the countries on the fringe of the Ottoman Empire in Egypt and the Sudan conceived the idea of bringing the vast Arab-speaking areas of the Ottoman Empire under British control after the war. In the words […]