Kfar Shalem

In 1947 Salama became a hub for terror and sniping activities again Jewish traffic to Jerusalem and to the south, as well as for Tel Aviv neighboring neighborhoods.

Salama was occupied on 29 April 1948, as part of Operation Hametz to remove the threat of sniper fire to the Jewish neighbourhoods of Hatikvah, Ezra and Yad Eliyahu.

Renamed Kfar Shalem, it became part of a densely populated neighbourhood of Tel Aviv, with some 20,000 residents.

Evacuation orders were issued against 30 families on the grounds that their homes are built on private land owned in 1948 by a British investor that were not expropriated by the state.

[4] In 2019, the Parent-Child Center opened in Kfar Shalem, offering programs and workshops for local children and their parents.