[1] In the 1860s the Ottoman authorities gave part of the Forest of Arsuf that later became Tzur Moshe to the mountain village of Shufa, near Tulkarm.

[2] The village was founded by a group of 20 immigrants from Kastoria, Greece as part of the tower and stockade settlement programme.

Kofinas' unfinished work was carried on by his faithful following: Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Chai Uzziel, David Florentine, Yosef Uzziel, Moshe Carasso and Leon Recanati, who joined ranks and called themselves by the name, The Dr. Moshe Kofinas Organisation of Greek Immigrants for Settlement.

In 1935, the Jewish Agency provided a plot of land for the group near Beit Shean, where they began to build their farming settlement.

[5] It was initiated and designed by architect Elias Messinas and Yvette Nahmia-Messinas, and the late David Fais who oversaw the implementation of the park.