  We analyse the low temperature phase of ferromagnetic Kac-Ising models in
dimensions $d\geq 2$. We show that if the range of interactions is $\g^{-1}$,
then two disjoint translation invariant Gibbs states exist, if the inverse
temperature $\b$ satisfies $\b -1\geq \g^\k$ where $\k=\frac
{d(1-\e)}{(2d+1)(d+1)}$, for any $\e>0$. The prove involves the blocking
procedure usual for Kac models and also a contour representation for the
resulting long-range (almost) continuous spin system which is suitable for the
use of a variant of the Peierls argument.
