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Menashe Regional Council
The Menashe Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Menasheh'') is a Regional council (Israel), regional council near the city of Hadera, on Israel's north-central Israeli Coastal Plain, coastal plain in the southern Haifa District. It is named after the Tribe of Manasseh, tribe of Menashe which had been allotted this region (and a much larger territory around) according to the Book of Joshua (17:1-10). List of localities This regional council provides various municipal services for the 21 communities within its territory: Kibbutzim *Barkai *Ein Shemer *Gan Shmuel *Kfar Glikson *Lahavot Haviva *Magal (kibbutz), Magal *Ma'anit *Metzer *Mishmarot *Regavim Moshavim *Ein Iron *Gan HaShomron *Kfar Pines *Maor *Mei Ami *Sde Yitzhak *Talmei Elazar Arab villages *al-Arian *Meiser *Umm al-Qutuf Other villages *Alonei Yitzhak *Sha'ar Menashe See also * Wadi Ara External linksOfficial website Menashe Regional Council, Regional councils in Israel Regional co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Council (Israel)
Regional councils (plural: , ''Mo'atzot Ezoriyot'' / singular: , ''Mo'atza Ezorit'') are one of the three types of Israel's Local government in Israel, local government entities, with the other two being City council (Israel), cities and Local council (Israel), local councils. As of 2019, there were 54 regional councils, usually responsible for governing a number of settlements spread across rural areas. Regional councils include representation of anywhere between 3 and 54 communities, usually spread over a relatively large area within geographical vicinity of each other. Each community within a regional council usually does not exceed 2,000 in population and is managed by a Local committee (Israel), local committee. This committee sends representatives to the administering regional council proportionate to their size of membership and according to an index which is fixed before each election. Those settlements without an administrative council do not send any representatives to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regavim
Regavim () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near Umm al-Fahm, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a population of . Etymology The name Regavim is taken from the Hebrew word 'regev', meaning a very small piece of land or patch of soil, a word used in a Zionist poem about reclaiming the Land of Israel, "dunam by dunam, regev by regev." History The kibbutz group was established in 1947 by immigrants from Italy and North Africa who were members of the Habonim Dror youth movement. They first settled on the land of the depopulated Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ... village of al-Butaymat in July 1948, before moving to the land of another depopulated Palestinian village, Qannir, in 1949. References External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wadi Ara
Wadi Ara (, ) or Nahal 'Iron (), is a valley and its surrounding area in Israel populated mainly by Arab citizens of Israel, Arab Israelis. The area is also known as the "Triangle (Israel), Northern Triangle". Wadi Ara is located northwest of the Green Line (Israel), Green Line, in the Haifa District. Highway 65 (Israel), Highway 65 runs through the wadi. The ancient town of biblical fame, Tel Megiddo, Megiddo, known from Revelation 16:16 as Armageddon, used to guard its northern exit during much of the Bronze Age, Bronze and Iron Ages. Geography Wadi Ara is a 20 km wadi (valley) in northern Israel that begins at the meeting point of Samaria, the Menashe Heights, and the Sharon plain. The riverbed begins near Umm al-Fahm and runs southwest on the boundary between the Manasseh hills and the Umm al-Fahm hills. Approximately 1 km west of the Border Patrol intersection on Highway 65, the wadi opens into the Sharon plain, and becomes a tributary of the Hadera Stream, south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sha'ar Menashe
Sha'ar Menashe () is a psychiatric medical centre in northern Israel. Located near Pardes Hanna-Karkur with an area of 740 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council The Menashe Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Menasheh'') is a Regional council (Israel), regional council near the city of Hadera, on Israel's north-central Israeli Coastal Plain, coastal plain in the southern Haifa District. It is named after .... In it had a population of . It is the location of Sha'ar Menashe psychiatric hospital. History In the past after 1949 there was here a camp for first absorption of immigrants from Yemen and Iraq and a village for elderly people. In 2007 the hospital had in treatment 1,100 patients and was the largest psychiatric institution in Israel. References External linksOfficial website {{Authority control Villages in Israel Psychiatric hospitals in Israel Populated places established in 1949 Hospitals established in 1949 1949 establishments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alonei Yitzhak
Alonei Yitzhak () is a youth village in northern Israel. Located near Binyamina, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in 1948 by Yehiel Harif to absorb children who had survived the Holocaust. It was named after Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Jewish-Zionist journalist and activist, one of the leading figures in Polish Jewry. Today the village is a boarding school that teaches 675 children (275 residential, 400 day students) from 7th to 12th grade. Alonei Yitzhak nature reserve A 31-acre nature reserve A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, funga, or features of geologic ... within which the Village is located was declared in 1969, mainly of old Valonia oak trees ('' Quercus macrolepis''), in close proximity to the youth villa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umm Al-Qutuf
Umm al-Qutuf (; ) is an Arab village in northern Israel. Located in the triangle, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Pottery remains from the Hellenistic,Zertal, 2016, p163/ref> Roman,Haddad, 2012Umm el-Qutuf/ref> and Byzantine eras have been found here, as have pottery remains from the early Muslim and the Middle Ages. Ottoman era In 1882, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) found at ''Kh. Umm el Kutuf'' only "ruined walls." British Mandate era In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ''Kherbet Umm al-Qatuf'' had a population of 11 Muslims.Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p 30/ref> See also *Arab localities in Israel Arab localities in Israel include all population centers with a 50% or higher Arab population in Israel. East Jerusalem and Golan Heights are not internationally recognized parts of Israel proper but have been included in this lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meiser
Meiser (; , also known as Shaykh Maysar or Khirbat Maysar) is an Arab village in northern Israel. Located half a kilometre west of the Green Line, north of the city of Baqa al-Gharbiyye in the triangle area of Wadi Ara, it is one of three Arab villages under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Antiquity Remains from the Early Roman era (end of the first century BCE–beginning of the first century CE) have been found here.Zertal, 2016, pp292 Three strata from the Roman-Byzantine periods was excavated in the centre of the village. A bathhouse, dating from the same time, has also been found. Ceramics and other remains from the Byzantine era have been found here. An excavation revealed remains dating from the end of the Byzantine period (7th century CE), and above it were remains of a residential house from the Abbasid period (9th–10th centuries CE). Ottoman era In 1882, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) found at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Arian
al-Arian (; ) is an Arab village in northern Israel. Located in Wadi Ara, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a population of . See also *Arab localities in Israel Arab localities in Israel include all population centers with a 50% or higher Arab population in Israel. East Jerusalem and Golan Heights are not internationally recognized parts of Israel proper but have been included in this list. According to ... References External links *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8IAA {{Authority control Arab villages in Israel Triangle (Israel) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talmei Elazar
Talmei Elazar () is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the eastern Sharon plain to the north-east of Hadera, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in 1952 by residents of Zikhron Ya'akov and Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and Iran on land to the east of the depopulated Palestinian village of Khirbat al-Sarkas, and was named after Elazar Warmassar, one of the heads of the PJCA. One of the residents runs a health and beauty span that offers snake massages. She uses California and Florida king snakes, corn snakes and milk snakes, claiming that contact with these reptiles is stress-relieving. Located on the outskirts of the moshav is a carnivorous plant nursery where various species of plants are grown, among them the Nepenthes ''Nepenthes'' ( ) is a genus of carnivorous plants, also known as tropical pitcher plants, or monkey cups, in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae. The gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sde Yitzhak
Sde Yitzhak () is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the eastern Sharon plain to the south-east of Hadera, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in 1952 on the former site of Lahavot Haviva, which had moved to its present location three kilometres east the previous year. The founders were immigrants from Poland.History Sde Yitzhak The moshav was named after , a founder of the Palmach
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Mei Ami
Mei Ami () is a moshav in northern Israel. Located near Wadi Ara around two kilometres south of Umm al-Fahm with an area of 3,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in 1963 as a Nahal settlement, and was civilianised in 1969, becoming a kibbutz. In 1971 it was converted to a moshav shitufi and in 2006 to a moshav ovdim. It is named after Miami, Florida, as the Jew Jews (, , ), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of ancient Israel and Judah. They also traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, religion, and community are highly inte ...ish community in Miami, Florida helped with its establishment. References External linksVillage website {{Authority control Moshavim Nahal settlements Former kibbutzim Populated places established in 1963 Populated places in Haifa District 1963 establishments in Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maor
Maor () is a moshav in north-central Israel. The word ''Maor'' means a light or luminary in Hebrew. Located near Baqa al-Gharbiyye, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav was established in 1953 by Jewish immigrants from Romania and Poland; was abandoned after several years, and re-established in 1957 by Jewish immigrants from Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the north, Oman to Oman–Yemen border, the northeast, the south-eastern part .... Some residents work in agriculture on the moshav, and others live on the moshav but work elsewhere. See also * Maor Tiyouri (born 1990), Israeli Olympic long distance runner References Moshavim Menashe Regional Council Populated places in Haifa District Polish-Jewish culture in Israel Romanian-Jewish culture in Israel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
