Shefayim

High Hills) is a kibbutz in central Israel located 2.5 miles north of Herzliya along the Mediterranean coast.

In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, it absorbed refugees from the abandoned kibbutz Beit HaArava near the Dead Sea.

[4] In 2012 IBM acquired New York- and Shefayim-based mobile application developer Worklight Ltd., founded in 2006 by Shahar Kaminitz, formerly of Amdocs.

[5] Kibbutz Shefayim is among the wealthiest kibbutzim and was one of the few that did not require debt assistance from the state and banks during the recession in the 1980s.

The main income source of the kibbutz is Hutzot Shefayim, a shopping mall, on real-estate previously classified as agricultural land.

Members of Palmach loading gravel in Shefayim, July 1947
Shefayim 1944 1:20,000 (bottom left)
Shefayim cultural center
Kibbutz Shefayim Aerial View