Kfar Galim was founded in 1952 on the lands of a British Army base, initiated by Levi Eshkol, Abba Hushi, and Shimon Peres. The first director of the village, Avraham Miron, together with the founding team, established the concept of a "village that is a family," which essentially created the DNA of Kfar Galim. From its inception, Kfar Galim has been an agricultural youth village that educates on the values of settlement and Zionism, while adapting to the needs of the State of Israel and the region where the youth village operates, maintaining a close relationship with the local authorities around it, mainly the Hof Carmel Regional Council and Atlit in recent years.
Currently, Kfar Galim operates a regional school for 7th -12th grades of the Hof Carmel Regional Council, where all the students external and boarding school study together. The school serves approximately 1,800 students. The boarding school in the village is home to about 330 students, of which around 70 are Na'ale students, about 36 students belong to the Maccabi Haifa football academy, and the rest come from across Israel, from 60 across the country.
In the past year, students from the school and the boarding school achieved a 94% eligibility rate for the matriculation exams.
The youth village inves significantly and believes in integrating the agricultural sector both as a platform for studying agriculture and technology and as an entrepreneurial and therapeutic environment. The agricultural sector has seven active branches: a dairy farm, a cheese factory, a kennel, a greenhouse, a petting zoo, bananas, and passion fruit. Recently, a therapeutic horse stable has also been established.
Kfar Galim is a vibrant village that believes in multiculturalism, education for tolerance and sustainability, and love for the people and the country. Due to this agenda, there is significant investment in values-based education and group journeys, as well as extensive activities in
sports such as football, basketball, athletics, volleyball, wrestling, and more, as part of the multi-sport club initiative.
The village works with many partners, including the Adnam Employment Center, which allows the community to engage with individuals on the spectrum and with developmental delays, and also enables collaboration for the employment of these young people with the National Insurance Institute in the stable and in the food track.
The village also operates a kindergarten, String Home Educational Dialogic School, a veterinarian, the "Gal Sheli" association, and more, creating a community that offers an educational experience and interaction that only our village can provide. So come visit, because our village is the right place.
