Tzofit

Content sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Tzofit is a small farming community (moshav) in central Israel, near Kfar Saba. It is part of the Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In 2023, about 1,115 people lived there.

Historically, the area was part of the Forest of Sharon, a broad oak woodland that stretched from Kfar Yona to Ra'anana. Local Arab residents used the land for grazing, firewood, and occasional farming. In the 19th century, more intensive settlement and farming in the coastal plain led to deforestation and environmental damage.

Tzofit was founded in 1933 on land bought by the Jewish National Fund from Arab landowners from Qalqiliya, by a group of about 50 pioneering farmers forming a gar'in to start the community.