Kfar Chabad is a Chabad-Lubavitch community of about 400 families located near Tel Aviv. It was established in 1949 by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn.[1] A synagogue is located in the village. Chabad Lubavitch, or Lubavich, is one of the largest branch of Hasidic Judaism founded by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi . ... Tel-Aviv was founded on empty dunes north of the existing city of Jaffa. ... Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn (or Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn) (also known as the Frierdikker Rebbe (Previous Rebbe in Yiddish) or Rebbe Rayatz) (1880 - 1950) was the sixth Rebbe (rabbi) of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic Judaism movement. ... A synagogue (Hebrew: בית כנסת ; beit knesset, house of assembly; Yiddish: שול, shul; Ladino אסנוגה esnoga) is a Jewish place of religious worship. ...

The first inhabitants were mostly recent immigrants from the Soviet Union, survivors of the terrors of World War II and Stalinist oppression. Kfar Chabad, which is located about five miles south of Tel Aviv and includes agricultural lands as well as numerous educational institutions, serves as the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement in the Holy Land.