Kfar Hoshen formerly known as Safsufa (ספסופה), is a moshav

Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah...

 about 4 km north of Meron in northern Israel

Israel

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. It belongs to the Merom HaGalil Regional Council

Merom HaGalil Regional Council

The Merom HaGalil Regional Council is a regional council in the northern Galilee of northern Israel. The regional council was established in 1950...

. The moshav is situated on the land of the former Palestinian

Palestinian people

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 village of Safsaf

Safsaf

Safsaf was a Palestinian village located 9 kilometres northwest of Safed, present day Israel. Its villagers fled to Lebanon after the Safsaf massacre in October 1948, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-History:The village was called Safsofa in Roman times...

, whose villagers fled to Lebanon

Lebanon

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 after the Safsaf massacre

Safsaf massacre

The Safsaf massacre occurred on October 29, 1948, when the Israel Defense Forces captured the Palestinian Arab village of Safsaf in the Galilee...

 in October 1948, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war

1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, known to Israelis as the War of Independence or War of Liberation The war commenced after the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine and the creation of an independent Israel at midnight on 14 May 1948 when, following a period of civil war, Arab armies invaded...

.

The moshav was founded in 1949 by immigrants to Israel from Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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 and with the support of the Moshavim Movement

Moshavim Movement

The Moshavim Movement is one of the main settlement movements in Israel, whose members are cooperative villages organized as moshavim and moshavim shitufiim...

. The population was changed in early years by immigrants from Yemen

Yemen

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, and starting in 1953 immigrants from Morocco

Morocco

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 and Tunisia

Tunisia

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 also came.

Children in the community learn in schools nearby.

• Elementary schools: "Nof Harim" school in Sasa
  Sasa
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  , a religious school in Meron and a Haredi school in Safed
  Safed
  Safed , is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an elevation of , Safed is the highest city in the Galilee and of Israel. Due to its high elevation, Safed experiences warm summers and cold, often snowy, winters...
  
  ;
• High schools: "Anne Frank
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  " school in Sasa, "AMIT
  AMIT
  AMIT is an American Jewish Zionist volunteer organization, dedicated to education in Israel and nurturing Israeli children to become productive, contributing members of society...
  
  " in Safed, and dormitories outside the area.

The residents work in agriculture and tourism.

The original name "Safsufa" is based on an identical name found in the Talmud

Talmud

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, whose name is preserved in the village Safsaf. (The Hebrew word "Safsaf" means an area where fruits ripen later than usual.)