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Haifa District
Haifa District () is an administrative district surrounding the city of Haifa in Israel. The district is one of the seven administrative districts of Israel, and its capital is Haifa. The district land area is 864 km2 (299.3 mi2). Demographics According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics data for 2016: * Total population: 996,300 * Ethnic: ** Jews: 642,700 (69.4%) ** Arabs: 233,000 (25.1%) ** Others: 51,000 (5.5%) * Religious (as of 2017): ** Jews: 684,100 (68.6%) ** Muslims: 213,400 (21.4%) ** Druze: 26,300 (2.6%) ** Christians: 17,600 (1.7%) ** Not classified: 56,300 (5.6%) Administrative local authorities See also * Districts of Israel *List of cities in Israel This article lists the 73 localities in Israel that the Ministry of Interior (Israel), Israeli Ministry of Interior has designated as a City council (Israel), city council. It excludes the 4 List of Israeli settlements with city status in the W ... * Arab localities in Israel * Wadi Ara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Israel
There are six main administrative districts of Israel, known in Hebrew as (; sing. , ) and in Arabic as . There are also 15 subdistricts of Israel, known in Hebrew (; sing. , ) and in Arabic as . Each subdistrict is further divided into natural regions,Key to the Codes in the Maps - Districts, Sub-Districts and Natural Regions 2018 Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, 2021 which in turn are further divided into council-level divisions: whether they might be , |
Umm Al-Fahm
Umm al-Fahm ( , ''Umm al-Faḥm''; ''Um el-Faḥem'') is a city located northwest of Jenin in the Haifa District of Israel. In its population was , nearly all of whom are Palestinian citizens of Israel. The city is situated on the Umm al-Fahm mountain ridge, the highest point of which is Mount Iskander ( above sea level), overlooking Wadi Ara. Umm al-Fahm is the social, cultural and economic center for residents of the Wadi Ara and Triangle regions. Etymology Umm al-Fahm literally means "Mother of Charcoal" in Arabic. According to local lore, the village was surrounded by forests which were used to produce charcoal. History Several archaeological sites around the city date to the Iron Age II, as well as the Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, early Muslim and the Middle Ages.Zertal, 2016, p119/ref> Mamluk era In 1265 C.E. (663 H.), after Baybars won the territory from the Crusaders, the revenues from Umm al-Fahm were given to the Mamluk ''na'ib al-saltana'' (viceroy) of Syria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rekhasim
Rekhasim ()Marks, Yehudah. "The Torah Empire of the North", ''Hamodia'' Israel News, 19 March 2015, pp. 21-23. is a Haredi town in the Haifa District of Israel. It is located between Kiryat Tiv'on, Kiryat Ata, and Nesher, next to roads 70, 75, and 762. With a jurisdiction of 2,859 dunams (~2.9 km2), it had a population of in . It is ranked low (2 out of 10) on the Israeli socio-economic scale. Etymology The town was named after a verse in the Book of Isaiah (Isaiah 40:4), because it is located on four mountain ranges. History Rekhasim was founded in 1951 by released soldiers and residents of nearby ma'abarot. It initially absorbed large numbers of immigrants from India, Morocco, Romania, Russia and Yemen. In 1955 the Knesses Chizkiyahu yeshiva relocated here from Zikhron Ya'akov. The yeshiva purchased a lot on the outskirts of the village and five buildings containing a beth midrash, dining hall, dormitories and offices, moving into its new home at the end of April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pardes Hanna-Karkur
Pardes Hanna-Karkur () is a town in the Haifa District of Israel. In it had a population of . It has been characterized as having a hipster culture. History An Arab village named Karkur had stood at this location by the time the Palestine Exploration Fund had compiled its first maps in 1878. In 1913, 15 square kilometers of land was purchased by the Hachsharat Hayishuv society from Arabs in Jenin and Haifa for 400,000 francs (a sum equivalent to 2 million US dollars). Two years later, the land was sold to a private investor, Yitzhak Shlezinger, the Odessa Committee and the First London Ahuza society. This land became the core of Karkur, Moshav Gan Hashomron and Kibbutz Ein Shemer. Until actual settlement began, the area was guarded by Hashomer, which planted eucalyptus trees to circumvent a Turkish law that allowed the Ottomans to expropriate lands if they were not cultivated for three years. The early settlements did not fare well. Shlezinger went bankrupt and sold hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ma'ale Iron
Ma'ale Iron (, ''lit.'' Iron Heights; ) is an Arab citizens of Israel, Arab Local council (Israel), local council in Israel's Haifa District and is a part of the Wadi Ara region in the Triangle (Israel), Triangle. The town consists of the five villages of Bayada, Ma'ale Iron, Bayada, Musheirifa, Musmus, Salem, Ma'ale Iron, Salem and Zalafa, Ma'ale Iron, Zalafa. The villages were joined together in 1996 by the Ministry of Interior (Israel), Interior Ministry of Israel to form the local council. In its population was , predominantly Muslims. It has an area of 6.3 Square kilometre, km2. Ma'ale Iron has four elected members and since 2013 the head of the council has been Mustafa Ighbarieh. History The five villages of Ma'ale Iron did not have municipal status and instead were under the administration of ''mukhtars'' (village headmen) appointed by the Ministry of Interior (Israel), Interior Ministry until 1992 when the Interior Ministry established the Nahal Iron Regional council, Nahal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiryat Tivon
Kiryat Tiv'on (, also Qiryat Tiv'on) is a town in the Haifa District of Israel, in the hills between the Zvulun Valley, Zvulun (Zebulon) and Jezreel Valley, Jezreel valleys. Kiryat Tiv'on is located southeast of Haifa, on the main road to Nazareth. Kiryat Tiv'on is the result of the municipal merger of several older settlements, Tiv'on (est. 1946), Elro'i (est. 1935), Kiryat Haroshet (est. 1935) and Kiryat Amal (est. 1937). On the outskirts of Tiv'on is a Bedouin township called Basmat Tab'un. In 2022 Kiryat Tiv'on had a population of 19,130. In the area of Kiryat Tivon, one can find the National Park and the World Heritage Site Beit She'arim necropolis, Beit She'arim, the Sanhedrin's Seat and the burial place of Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi, as well as the sculpture of Alexander Zaïd, Alexander Zaid, who resided in the area with his family and was murdered nearby. History Ancient Israel An ancient Jewish town called Tiv'on existed in the general area. It was mentioned in the Talmud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kafr Qara
Kafr Qara (, ; also spelled ''Kafr Qari'') is an Arab city in Israel southeast of Haifa. In its population was . Kafr Qara holds the record for doctors relative to population size in the country with around 14.8 doctors per 1,000 citizens (2007, with more than 50 medicine students back then), and is also known for recording a high rate of academics and master's degree holders. History Mamluk period An early ''defter'' entry noted that Kafr Qara had been incorporated into the "Diwan of the Circassian sultanate" after it had been seized by ‘the Shaykhs of the mountain of Nablus’. Ottoman period Kafr Qara was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with the rest of Palestine, and in the ''defter'' no. 610, which was written soon after 1540, the revenue of Kafr Qara was designated to an endowment in Jerusalem; the Madrasah Al-Uthmaniyya. The whole of the revenue of Kafr Qara, a total of 3,400 aspers annually, belonged to this endowment. In 1859 the population was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jisr Az-Zarqa
Jisr az-Zarqa ( lit. ''The blue bridge'', ; often shortened as Jisr) is an Israeli Arab town on Israel's northern Mediterranean coastal plain. Located just north of Caesarea within the Haifa District, it achieved local council status in 1963. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) the town had a population of 13,689 in 2014, living on of coastal land. 80% of residents reportedly live below the poverty line. The name Jisr az-Zarqa is a reference to Taninim Stream, which is known in Arabic as the "Blue Wadi" (Wadi az-Zarka). The mayor is Morad Ammash. Jisr az-Zarqa is the only Arab-majority town in Israel located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. History Excavations have revealed walls with pottery remains dating from the 1st-century CE, with amphoras dating from the 4th to 7th centuries CE, and remains of a structure carrying a ceramic pipe, most probably dating to the Byzantine era. It has been suggested that the aqueduct in Jisr az-Zarqa is part of the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jatt, Israel
Jatt (; ) is an Arab local council in the Triangle area of Haifa District in Israel. In it had a population of . Etymology The name Jatt preserves the name Gath, Hebrew for winepress. The name Gath was used in ancient times to refer to various settlements from the Judean Lowlands in the south to the Galilee in the north. The name Gath is occasionally used in ancient sources along with a qualifier to set it apart from other locations with the same name, such as Gath of the Philistines, Gath-rimmon, Gat Carmel, Gat Hefer, and Gat Padla. History Antiquity Archaeologists excavations have yielded remains from Early Bronze Age and Middle Bronze Age. Both local and imported pottery from this period has been found. A scarab, in bone, dating to the 1750–1550 BCE has also been found. Two ancient burial sites, dating from the Roman period, were discovered in a salvage excavation conducted at Jatt during the 1980s. One of them is a large funerary complex, holding inscription ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isfiya
Isfiya (, ), also known as Usfiya, is a Druze-majority village in northern Israel, governed by a Local council (Israel), local council. It also includes Christians, Muslims and a few Jews, Jewish households. Located on Mount Carmel, it is part of the Haifa District. In its population was 12,136. In 2003, the local council was merged with nearby Daliyat al-Karmel to form Carmel City. However, the new city was dissolved in 2008 and the two villages resumed their independent status. History Late Roman and Byzantine periods Isfiya was built on the ruins of an ancient settlement. A building, dating from the second–fourth centuries CE has been excavated, together with ceramics and coins dating from the period. In 1930, remains of a 5th-century Jews, Jewish town, Husifah or Huseifa, were unearthed in Isfiya. Among the finds are a synagogue with a mosaic floor bearing Jewish symbols and the inscription "Peace upon Israel". A cache of 4,500 gold coins were found dating from the Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fureidis
Fureidis (also Freidis; , ) is an Arab town in the Haifa District of Israel. It received local council status in 1952. In its population was . Name The name is believed to come from the Arabic (''firdawis''), meaning little Garden of Eden, borrowed from the Persian word for ''paradise''. A population list from about 1887 showed that ''Kh. Fureidis'' had about 300 inhabitants, all Muslim. British Mandate era In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ''Al Feridis'' had a population of 335; all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 454; still all Muslims, in a total of 98 houses.Mills, 1932, p90/ref> In the 1945 statistics the population of Fureidis consisted of 780 MuslimsDepartment of Statistics, 1945, p 13/ref> and the land area was 4,450 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p47/ref> Of this, 365 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daliyat Al-Karmel
Daliyat al-Karmel (, , "vineyards () of Carmel") is a Druze local council (Israel), town located on Mount Carmel in the Haifa District of Israel, around 20 km southeast of Haifa. In its population was 18,001. History In 1283 both ''Daliyat al-Karmel'' and ''Kh. Doubel'' (just south of Daliyat al-Karmel) were mentioned as part of the domain of the Crusader states, Crusaders, according to the hudna between the Crusaders in Acre, Israel, Acre and the Mamluk sultan Al-Mansur Qalawun, Qalawun. In 1870 a local guide showed French explorer Victor Guérin extensive ruins located south of Daliyat al-Karmel, called Khirbet Doubel. The ruins were the most extensive on Mount Carmel. Guérin thought it might be the town on Mt. Carmel mentioned by Pliny the Elder, Pliny. Claude Reignier Conder, Conder and Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Kitchener of the Palestine Exploration Fund surveyed the area and noted "traces of ruins" at a place SE of the village centre called ''Dubil''. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
