Pardes Hanna-Karkur has 4 religious elementary schools. It is the only high-school in Israel that offers a veterinary track. The oldest and largest school in Pardes Hanna-Karkur is the Pardes Hanna Agricultural High School, founded in the early 1930s as an educational framework for the children of farmers. Pardes-Hanna is governed by the largest local council in Israel by population size (among towns without municipal status).
In the 1950s, the villages Tel Shalom and Neve Efraim were merged with Pardes Hanna.Īccording to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, the population of Pardes Hanna-Karkur was 29,800 at end of 2006. Īfter Israeli independence, Neve Efraim was founded by Jewish immigrants from Yemen and Neve Oved was established by the Labor movement. On 6 April 1948, the Irgun raided the British Army camp at Pardes Hanna killing seven British soldiers and stealing a large quantity of weapons. "Hanna's orchard", also spelled in English as "Pardas Chana") was founded in 1929 by Palestine Jewish Colonisation Association and named after Hannah Rothschild, daughter of Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Eventually the Jewish National Fund and the London Ahuza society joined forces to establish Karkur. The London Ahuza society hoped to settle English Jews on the land, but succeeded only partially. Shlezinger went bankrupt and sold his land to the Jewish National Fund. Until actual settlement began, the area was guarded by Hashomer, which planted eucalyptus trees to circumvent a Turkish law that allowed the Ottomans to expropriate lands if they were not cultivated for three years.
This land became the core of Karkur, Moshav Gan Hashomron and Kibbutz Ein Shemer. Two years later, the land was sold to a private investor, Yitzhak Shlezinger, the Odessa Committee and the First London Ahuza society. kilometers of land was purchased by the Hachsharat Hayishuv society from Arabs in Jenin and Haifa for 400,000 francs (a sum equivalent to 2 million US dollars).
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