Al-Kfeir

Al-Kfeir (Arabic: الكفير) is a municipality nestled 900 m above sea level, in Hasbaiya District (Qada'a), an administrative division of Nabatiyeh Governorate (Mohafazah) along the steep slopes of the top of the Jebel Sheikh in Lebanon.

Al-Kfeir الكفير
Municipality
Al-Kfeir Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°25′46″N 35°44′26″E
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh Governorate
District	Hasbaya District
Elevation	900 m (3,000 ft)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code	+961

The village enjoys mild summers of an average temperature of 25°C. However, the winters are much colder and the village receives heavy snow.

Demographics

The inhabitants of Al-Kfeir are predominatly Greek Orthodox and Druze,^[1] and they mainly cultivate olives, pines and other fruit trees.

In 2014 Christians made up 50.61% and Druze made up 48.38% of registered voters in Al-Kfeir. 43.09% of the voters were and Greek Orthodox.^[2]

Notable people

• Firas Hamdan, one of 12 independent politicians who emerged from a mass anti-government protest movement in 2019.^[3] Hamdan was hit in the chest by a lead pellet in 2020 during a demonstration near parliament, days after a deadly explosion struck Beirut's port.^[4]
• Emily Nasrallah, Lebanese novelist.
• Fares al-Khoury, Syrian politician.
• Issam Abou Jamra, former Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon.
• Assaf Abu Rahhal, Lebanese journalist killed in the 2010 Israel–Lebanon border clash