Kfar Menahem

Kfar Menachem (originally Irgun Menachem) was founded in 1935 by a group of pioneers from Rehovot. The village was named for Menachem Ussishkin. During the Arab revolt in 1936, the place was abandoned by Jews and destroyed by Arabs. On 28 July 1937 the moshav was re-established as part of the Tower and Stockade program, but did not take hold. In 1939 the institutions for creating new settlements replaced the members of "Irgun Menachem" with the nucleus "Kibbutz Krit", pioneers from the United States and members of Hashomer Hatzair, who were training in the moshava of Kfar Hadar, near Ramatayim; the members of "Irgun Menachem" who left founded the moshav Kfar Warburg on 31 October 1939.

On 6 December 1939, a holiday to celebrate the kibbutz, now "Kfar Menachem", was held by the founders from Israel and members of "Kvutzat Krit". After a year, they left the walls (of the "tower and stockade") and founded a permanent settlement on a nearby hill, south of the walled area. The walled camp continued to hold the first of the kibbutz's three water wells, as well as the kibbutz bakery. After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the kibbutz expanded onto about 9,000 dunams on land of the depopulated Arab village of Idnibba.

Today the kibbutz hosts Yoav Regional Council's high school named "Tzafit", as well as a regional museum. There is a reconstruction of the original tower and stockade.

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  Kfar Menahem under construction 1937
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  Kfar Menahem under construction 1937
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  Kfar Menahem completed tower 1937
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  Kfar Menahem 1939
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  Kfar Menacem 1939 bakery
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  Kfar Menahem 1945 1:250,000
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  Kfar Menahem 1948 1:20,000

• Sandra Bernhard, American comedian who worked as a volunteer in Kfar Menachem the early 1970s
• Juval Aviv, born Yuval Aviof in 1947 in Kfar Menachem, former Mossad officer, later security consultant

• Official website (in Hebrew)