1947Government
In 1947, Teitelbaum settled with his followers in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, a borough of New York City.
1974Government
The land for Kiryas Joel was purchased in the early 1970s, and 14 Satmar families settled there in the summer of 1974.
1976History
Monroe town officials initially expressed skepticism over Teitelbaum's and his followers' plans to build multi-family housing in Kiryas Joel, but they eventually allowed the vil...
1977History
== Demographics ==
Kiryas Joel began with a 1977 founding population of 500 people.
1979History
When he died in 1979, Teitelbaum was the first person to be buried in the village's cemetery.
1985Education
Before 1985, special education students were taught by public school teachers in separate classes within yeshivas, and between 1985 and 1989 special education students were taug...
1989Culture
In 1989, the village forbade any property owner from selling or renting an apartment without its permission.
1990Government
If we lost respect for the Grand Rabbi, we lose the whole thing."
In January 1990, the village held its first, and, for a decade, only, school board election.
1992History
"Someone not following breaks down the whole system of being able to educate and being able to bring up our children with strong family values", Weider told The New York Times i...
1994Education
In 1994, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v.
1995History
Merck licensed the vaccine in 1995, and it became available in 1996, after which the hepatitis A infection rate fell by 75 percent in the United States.
1996Culture
A 1996 article found that Kiryas Joel residents who were students at yeshivas in Brooklyn had on many occasions apparently registered and voted in both the village and in Brookl...
1997Government
Abe Wieder has served as mayor of Kiryas Joel since 1997; Gedalye Szegedin has served as its administrator since 2004 or earlier.
2000Infrastructure
It is also the place in the United States with the highest percentage of people who reported Hungarian ancestry, as 18.9% of the population reported Hungarian descent in 2000.
2001Government
In 2001, Kiryas Joel held a competitive election in which all candidates supported by the grand rebbe were re-elected by a 55–45% margin.
2005History
In 2005, the population had risen to 18,300.
2006Government
On August 11, 2006, residents of Woodbury voted, by a 3-to-1 margin, to incorporate much of the town as a village, to constrain further annexation.
2007Civil Rights
In March 2007, the village of Kiryas Joel sued the county to stop it from selling off 1 million US gallons (3,800 m3) of excess capacity at its sewage plant in Harriman.
2009Government
Kiryas Joel Ranks at Top of National List of Municipalities that Lobby the Federal Government OpenSecrets, September 2009)
2006 Census
Levin, Dan (December 16, 2007).
2010History
The village abides by strict Jewish customs, and its welcome sign, which was installed in 2010, asks visitors to dress conservatively and to "maintain gender separation in all p...
2011Infrastructure
A 2011 New York Times report noted that, despite the town's very high statistical poverty rates, "It has no slums or homeless people.
2012History
The case was dismissed, and in 2012 the Second Circuit rejected their appeal of the dismissal.
2013Government
In the hotly contested 2013 Town Supervisors race, the Kiryas Joel bloc vote elected Harley Doles to the position of town supervisor.
2014History
In late 2014 village leadership proposed alternatively that a new village, to be called Gilios Kiryas Joel, be created on the 1,140 acres (460 ha) south of the village within Mo...
2017Government
In 2017, the village proposed to settle a lawsuit over some additional annexations it had proposed by petitioning the county legislature to allow it to become the county's 21st ...
2018Government
On July 1, 2018, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill to create Palm Tree, triggering elections for the first governing board.
2019Culture
In 2019, the village of Kiryas Joel separated from the town of Monroe, to become part of the town of Palm Tree, New York's first new town in 38 years.
2020Government
In the 2020 presidential election, 98.5% of Kiryas Joel voters voted for Trump, one of the highest percentages in the country.
2021Education
== Education ==
Most students go to private religious schools; in 2021 there were about 12,000 students attending them.
2022Education
In 2022–2023, the school district had a public school enrollment of 165 students.