Kfarfila English                      كفرفيلا  Arabic

Imagine Kfarfila as a large Bustan of fruit trees, As the homes rimes with it's beautiful gardens and trees and are spread to its own shops, and miscellaneous Dakkakin and on both sides of the main road to the town (saha).

Kfarfila sites safe at the bottom of Iqlim al-Tuffah mountains and supervised by Jabaa, Ain Qana and Ain Bossoir. Rising from the sea over 550 meters away from the town of Nabatia about 22 km, and about 65 km and the capital of Beirut.

The town is famous for cultivation of different onions and foremost White fancy Kind which has been a must for the people of the various areas as Sidon and Nabatia, and the annual production is more than twenty tons.

Kfarfila area real estate is 3500 dunums. The population is about 2500 people, half residing in the town and the other half mainly works in Beirut and neighborliness. The number of voters 950 voters (write regulations for 1998) and the number of housing units and 435 units.

The Name :

Mr. Freiha says in his book "Migam" : That the name is Aramie, which means "elephant village", and said that other meaning of the name is the village of rift or immature.

The latter title perhaps due to the presence of a crack (or alleged crack called Zine) in the high east of the town (broad of Huwara) resulting from an old earthquake according to the elderly parents, which caused a permanent spring giving life to most of the town's agricultural and named Ibn al-Aqil.

History :

There are many caves in the town date back to the Phoenician era, most of the caves (medfneh kind) one falls in the district "lantern" in the north-west of the town (and there is three more on the east side of the village the middle one contains three openings and on the internal side of each one of the three they contain old Phoenicians graves).

In the "dilapidated" (south of town) a Longsheng pottery, colored glass Cups addition, there are a number of mills is the old one of the tributaries of the Zahrani river, "Alhomh" east of the town has ceased Mazma.

  The scientific, social and cultura of the Village

Schools :

There is an old mosque in the town said that it was a religious school early 20th century sponsored a scholar of religion, but the school did not last long. In the early 1950s it was re-used as the official school of the town.

Before the 1950 period the education to the sons of the town families of Reading in the 1930s and 1940s was attended by Mr. Ali Abdel-Meguid, Sheikh Mohiuddin Elhur, Abdul Ghani Faqih, Sheikh Salman Taki Al Faqih and then Sheikh Mohamed Taqi Al Faqih.

The official beginning of the school year to the reintroduction in 1944 with a single teacher Moussa Hussein Hammoud, from the town of Kfar followed in the early 1950s Sheikh Arif free, and then Antoine Abu Samra 1957 / 1958. In the early 1960s, presented to the school by teachers Jamil Jizzini, Wafiq Kassem, Muqallad Muqalled, Tawfiq free, Saleh Al-Khayyat, and completed the primary 1970 mm and is now the director Professor Hani Mohammed free and then his successor Professor Ibrahim Fayyad, for the year 1987. Phase medium-General in 1978 and the current Director is Professor fair Khvaja with the knowledge that the school is the only elementary, There is also a branch of the Al-Mahdi private schools as of the year 1997.