Kfar Pines

Kfar Pines כְּפַר פִּינֶס

Kfar Pines
Coordinates: 32°29′2″N 35°0′10″E / 32.48389°N 35.00278°E / 32.48389; 35.00278Coordinates: 32°29′2″N 35°0′10″E / 32.48389°N 35.00278°E / 32.48389; 35.00278
District	Haifa
Council	Menashe
Affiliation	Hapoel HaMizrachi
Founded	1933
Founded by	Eastern European immigrants
Population (2007)	985
Name meaning	Named after Yehiel Michal Pines

Kfar Pines (Hebrew: כְּפַר פִּינֶס, lit. Pines Village) is a religious moshav in northern Israel. Located to the north-east of Hadera, adjacent to Pardes Hanna-Karkur and Ein Iron, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In 2007 it had a population of 985.

The village was established in 1933 by immigrants from eastern Europe, and was named after the author Rabbi Yehiel Michal Pines. It hosts an ulpena, a religious girls high school, named "Ramat Karniel" (Karniel's height). It is the first ulpena in Israel and therefore it called "Em Haulpenot" (mother of all ulpenas).

Menashe Regional Council

Kibbutzim	Barkai Ein Shemer Gan Shmuel Kfar Glikson Lahavot Haviva Magal Ma'anit Metzer Mishmarot Regavim

Moshavim	Ein Iron Gan HaShomron Kfar Pines Maor Mei Ami Sde Yitzhak Talmei Elazar

Community settlement	Mitzpe Ilan

Arab villages	al-Arian Meiser Umm al-Qutuf

Jewish locality	Katzir

Youth village	Alonei Yitzhak

Residential treatment center	Sha'ar Menashe

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