Kfar Shmuel () is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah around six kilometres south of Ramle, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gezer Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History Ancient Nearby sites such as Tel Gezer and Ekron were major urban centres during the Canaanite and Philistine periods.William G. Dever, Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research, University of Washington Press, 1990.Seymour Gitin, "Ekron of the Philistines: Part I," Biblical Archaeology Review, vol. 16, no. 1, 1990, pp. 26–36. Archaeological evidence from the broader region suggests widespread rural settlement, with remains of wine presses, cisterns and agricultural terraces dating back to the Iron Age, reflecting a strong Israelite presence during the period of the First Temple (c. 10th–6th centuries BCE).Israel Finkelstein and Nadav Na'aman (eds.), From Nomadism to Monarchy: Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel, Israel Exploration Society, 1994.Avraham Faust, Israel’s Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion and Resistance, Equinox Publishing, 2006.Ze’ev Herzog, "Archaeology of the Shephelah," in: Ephraim Stern (ed.), The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, vol. 4, Israel Exploration Society, 1993.
Modern The moshav was founded on 4 January 1950 by immigrants from Romania on land located near the depopulated Palestinian village of Innaba, which was occupied by Israeli forces on 10 July 1948. It was named after Stephen Samuel (Shmuel) Wise, an American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader.
See also HaNoar HaTzioni
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