Kfar Tapuach (Hebrew: כפר תפוח, lit. Apple-ville) is a Jewish town in the center of the Shomron, founded in 1978. It is one of a collection of Jewish towns in the region south of Shechem, and sits astride one of the most vital traffic junctions in the Shomron. The executive director of the village council is Yisrael Blunder. As of 2003 it had nearly 600 residents. The chief rabbi is Rabbi Shmuel Cohen.
The town located near the archaeological site of the biblical Kfar Tapuach appears in the Bible in the book of Joshua chapter 12 as one of the first 31 cities conquered by Joshua Bin-Nun and the children of Israel when they entered the land. The book of Joshua chapter 17 places Tapuach the border between the territory of the sons of Joseph, the tribes Menashe and Ephraim.
Kfar Tapuach is one of the most ethnically diverse Israeli settlements. Founded by a core of Habani Yemenite Jews from Bareket, it has since absorbed Russian and American Jews, a large group of Peruvian converts to Judaism from Trujillo, Peru, and others . Between February 2004 and August 2007, over 60 new families have moved to Kfar Tapuach.
