Kafr Qasim

Kafr Qasim (, cried Kafr Qassem, Kufur Kassem, Kfar Kassem an Kafar Kassem an aa), is a hill-top Israeli Arab ceety locatit aboot twinty kilometers east o Tel Aviv, near the Green Line separatin Israel an the Wast Bank, on the soothren portion o the "Little Triangle" o Arab-Israeli touns an veelages. The toun became notorious for the Kafr Qasim massacre, in which the Israel Border Polis killed 48 ceevilians on October 29, 1956. On Februar 12, 2008, the Israeli Meenister o the Interior declared Kafr Qasim a ceety in a ceremony held at the toun.

 History 
The toun's aurie wis populatit in auncient times, wi airchaeological ruins datin back tae Roman times. The modren toun wis foondit in the 17t century bi indwallers o the nearbi veelage Mes'ha. In 1917, durin Warld War I, Kafr Qasim (thegither wi the rest o the aurie) wis captured frae the rulin Ottoman Empire bi the Breetish Airmy an wis later placed unner the Breetish Mandate o Palestine. Kafr Qasim is kent as the veelage whaur the Israeli military advances came tae a halt in the central pairt o Palestine durin the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In 1949, Israel annexed the toun in accordance wi the airmistice agreements, which endit the war.

Kafr Qasim became kent acause o the massacre that wis committit bi the Israel border polis (MAGAV) on October 29, 1956, durin which 49 ceevilians wur shot deid. This massacre remains an open wound atween the veelagers an rest o the Israeli society. In 1959, the toun wis grantit local cooncil status bi the Israeli Interior Meenistry

In recent years, the toun became kent as the place whaur Sheikh Abdullah Nimar Darwish stairtit the Islamic Movement. Israeli parliamentarian Sheikh Ibrahim Sarsur, a native o Kafr Qasim, served for a decade on the toun cooncil an heids the soothren faction o the Islamic Muivement o Israel syne 1999. In 2008, it wis annoonced that Kafr Qasim coud suin acome a ceety.

 Demographics 
At the time o the 1931 census, Kafr Qasim haed 241 occupee'd hooses an a population o 989 Muslims.

Accordin tae the Israel Central Bureau o Statistics, the toun haed 18,100 maistly Muslim indwallers at the end o 2007. Thare are 936 females for ivery 1,000 males. The population increases at an annual rate o 2.7%.

The social-economic rank o the toun is relatively law (3 oot o 10). Anerlie 50.2% o 12t graders wur eligible for graduation (Bagrut) certificates in 2000. The average monthly wage in 2000 wis 3,633 NIS, as opposed tae the naitional average o 6,835 NIS at that time.

 Fowk frae Kafr Qasim 
Abdullah Nimar Darwish
Ibrahim Sarsur
Walid Badir

 See an aa 
Leet o Arab localities in Israel

 References 

 Freemit airtins 
 Kufur-Kassem hame page
 Kufur-Kassem offeecial hame page 
 the village location 
 Material in English 
 Material in Hebrew כפר קאסם בעברית 

Category:Arab localities in Israel
Category:Ceeties in Israel
Category:Massacres in Israel
Category:Triangle (Israel)