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[edit] Spelling Note

It can be Kfar Sava (official "academic") or Kfar Saba (unofficial but used by everybody including Mayor Ben Hamo and former Mayor Wald) but never "Kefar"

I think the article should be moved to Kfar Saba as that is the spelling used by the municipality (therefore it is official, despite possibly being unacademic). I will move it if no one objects. -- Y Ynhockey || Talk Y 19:51, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
It should be noted that "Kefar Sava" is the spelling preferred by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. [1] However, I'm not personally getting involved in the decision of what to name this article. - Gilgamesh 17:27, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
I know I recommended you to check the CBS spellings myself at some point, seeing as how they appear on Israeli road signs AFAIK (and other reasons), but now that I think about it, many of them are not widely used, especially by officials in the cities themselves. Petah Tikva (vs. Petah Tiqwa, according to CBS) is a good example. By starting this discussion I'm trying to see what the consensus is, since there are a lot of spellings, and more than one can be called official. -- Y Ynhockey || Talk Y 18:59, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Now that I think of it, up to three different official spellings can be mentioned, in order of highest priority to lowest. (1) The common English spelling, e.g. Jerusalem, Tiberias, Nazareth, Safed, Acre, Beersheba. (2) The central government or local municipal spelling, whichever is more common in an Israel-wide context. (3) The other of these two spellings which is less common Israel-wide than the other. The first one should be the article name, and the other two (if different) should also be described and mentioned in their contexts. Many place names in Israel are probably going to be the same for all three categories, and others will have two, and a few will have three. Examples: Safed/Tzfat/Zefat, Nazareth/Natzrat/Nazerat, Tiberias/Tverya/Teverya. - Gilgamesh 03:12, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Geography

Main thoroughfare is Weizmann street. Located on route 4. 18 km from Tel Aviv, 70 from Jerusalem. Raanana to the West, Hod Ha-Sharon to the South, Neve Yamin to the East. (Will elaborate)

[edit] Religious makeup

From what I can tell from the article as it is right now, the municipality is majority-Jewish?

My registrar idregister.com says it is situated here, and I'm curious.

Just a disclaimer that I'm not trying to draw unnecessary attention or conflict.

Yes, the city Kfar Saba is mainly Jewish. This page does not list a Jewish population for Kfar Saba (as it does for Jerusalem, for example), meaning it has a small to negligible non-Jewish population. -- Y Ynhockey (Talk) Y 16:54, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
The "small to negligible" part may be correct. There are some non-Jews in Kfar Saba: immigrants from the former Soviet Union who qualify for Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return, and immigrants from other countries (notably Argentina) under the same status. Then, there are quite a few guest workers: nannies and caregivers from the Phillipines, construction and other workers (mostly from China and Eastern Europe). There are a few Arabs living within city limits, including students living on rented apartments, and the AbuSnena clan who live in the outskirts and carries some influence with City Hall for complex historical reasons. Note that most of the Eastern lands were once "Arab Kfar Saba", and that the name does not refer to a grandfather, but to a guy named Saba from pre-Talmudic who, so goes the legend, arranged the meeting between Alexander the Great and the Jewish High Priest (Alexander was a noted visitor of holy places of invadee's religions, and somehow he was persuaded to meet the High Priest on the plain and not venture to Jerusalem). elpincha 14:56, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Move vote

I guess the previous discussion didn't move along too well, so I'm proposing a vote for the naming of this article.

[edit] Vote

Kefar Sava (current, official [CBS]; 33,500 Google hits)

Kfar Sava (academic; 76,800 Google hits)

Kfar Saba (common, official [municipal website]; 278,000 Google hits)

  1. Ynhockey (Talk) 11:56, 26 April 2006 (UTC)