{{Short description|Moshav in southern Israel}} {{Infobox Kibbutz | name = Kfar Ahim | hebname = {{Script/Hebrew|כְּפַר אַחִים}} | foundation = 1949 | image = Kfar Ahim.jpg | founded_by = {{nowrap|Polish and Romanian immigrants}} | country={{ISR}} | district = south | council = Be'er Tuvia | affiliation = Moshavim Movement | popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}} | population = {{Israel populations|Kefar Ahim}} | population_footnotes={{Israel populations|reference}} | pushpin_map = Israel ashkelon#Israel | pushpin_mapsize = 250 | pushpin_label_position = bottom | coordinates = {{coord|31|44|41|N|34|45|27|E|display=inline,title}} | meaning = Village of Brothers | website = }}
'''Kfar Ahim''' ({{langx|he|כְּפַר אַחִים||Village of Brothers}}) is a moshav in south-central Israel. Located near Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Kefar Ahim}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}
==History== The moshav was founded in 1949 by Jewish immigrants from Poland and Romania on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Qastina.<ref>{{cite book|title=All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_By7AAAAIAAJ |first1=Walid|last1=Khalidi|authorlink=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies|isbn=0-88728-224-5|page=131 }}</ref> It was named for two brothers who were killed during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Zvi and Efraim Guber, sons of Mordecai and Rivka Guber from the nearby moshav of Kfar Warburg.<ref name=mapa>{{Cite book | publisher = Mapa Publishing | isbn = 965-7184-34-7 | page = 282 |editor-first=Yuval |editor-last=El'azari | title = Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel | location = Tel-Aviv | year = 2005 |language=he}}</ref>
Notable natives of Kfar Ahim include politicians Benny Gantz and Israel Katz.
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Category:Moshavim Category:Populated places established in 1949 Category:1949 establishments in Israel Category:Populated places in Southern District (Israel) Category:Polish-Jewish culture in Israel Category:Romanian-Jewish culture in Israel