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Jezreel Valley Regional Council
Jezreel Valley Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Emek Yizra'el'') is a regional council in northern Israel that encompasses most of the settlements in the Jezreel Valley. It includes 15 kibbutzim, 15 moshavim, 6 community settlements and two Bedouin villages. Despite its name, some of these settlements are not located in the Jezreel Valley proper, but in the vicinity. List of communities Kibbutzim * Alonim * Dovrat * Ein Dor * Gazit * Gevat * Ginegar * Hanaton * Harduf * HaSolelim * Kfar HaHoresh * Merhavia * Mizra * Ramat David *Sarid *Yifat Moshavim * Alonei Abba * Alon HaGalil * Balfouria * Beit She'arim (moshav) * Beit Zeid * Bethlehem of Galilee *HaYogev * Kfar Barukh * Kfar Gidon *Kfar Yehoshua * Merhavia *Nahalal * Sde Ya'akov *Tel Adashim * Zippori Community settlements *Adi * Ahuzat Barak * Givat Ela *Hoshaya Hoshaya () is a national-religious community settlement (Israel), community in northern Israel. Located to the south-east of Shefa-'Amr, on Route 77 between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Council Emeq Izreel Building
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Gevat
Gvat (, also transliterated ''Gevat'') is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near Migdal HaEmek in the Jezreel Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . The kibbutz founded the Plastro company, one of the world's largest drip irrigation systems manufacturers. History Roman period: Jewish Gabatha Archaeological evidence, including columns and masonry inscribed in Latin, shows that a first-century BCE Judeo-Roman settlement existed at the site. The Arab village of Jebata and its name were identified with the ancient town of Gabatha, which is mentioned by Eusebius of Caesarea and Jerome as lying within the borders of ''Diocaesarea'' near the great plain of Legio or Esdraelon.Roller ( 1998), p. 161.Robinson and Smith (1841), vol 3, p201 Ottoman period: Arab Jebata By the modern era, a village by the name of Jebata (also spelt Jabata, Jebatha, Jibbata and Jibta) had been established 25 kilometres southeast of Haifa on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balfouria
Balfouria () is a moshav in northern Israel, south of Nazareth. Located near Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. As of it had a population of . History The initial core of settlers assembled in 1919 and began training for the establishment of an agricultural settlement. A tract of land was purchased with the funds of the American Zion Commonwealth, and Keren Hayesod acquired equipment. The moshav was founded in 1922, the third to be established in Palestine, and was named after The 1st Earl of Balfour, writer of the Balfour Declaration (who consented to lending his name to the settlement), which embraced Zionist plans for a Jewish "national home". According to a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, Balfouria had a population of 18 Jews. According to a Jewish National Fund publication of 1949, Balfouria was the first village to be founded in Palestine after the Balfour Declaration. The founders were joined by f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alon HaGalil
Alon HaGalil () is a community settlement in northern Israel. Located in the Lower Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . Alon Hagalil was founded in 1980 on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian town of Saffuriya until the establishment of Israel. Founded as a moshav, it converted to a community settlement in 1986, but remains a member of the Moshavim Movement The Moshavim Movement (, ''Tnu'at HaMoshavim'') is one of the main Settlement movement (Israel), settlement movements in Israel, whose members are cooperative villages organized as moshavim and moshav shitufi, moshavim shitufiim. History Founded i .... Notable residents * Erel Halevi References External linksVillage website {{Jezreel Valley Regional Council Community settlements Former moshavim Populated places established in 1980 Populated places in Northern District (Israel) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alonei Abba
Alonei Abba () is a moshav shitufi in northern Israel. Located in the Lower Galilee near Bethlehem of Galilee and Alonim, in the hills east of Kiryat Tivon, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . The modern village was founded in 1948 on the site of the historical Arab village of Umm el Amad, later the German Protestant Colony of Waldheim. History Archaeological investigations indicate that this was an industrial agricultural processing area in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Among the remains found are Roman-period industrial oil press and a winepress, in addition to a paved path from the same era. Ottoman era Umm al-Amed ''Umm al-'Amad'' was mentioned in the Ottoman defter for the year 1555–6, as ''Mezraa'' land, (that is, cultivated land), located in the ''Nahiya'' of Tabariyya of the '' Liwa'' of Safad. The land was designated as Ziamet land. In 1799 it appeared as a village Zebed on the Carte de l'Ég ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yifat
Yifat (, more accurately romanized as "Yif'at") is a kibbutz in Galilee, northern Israel. Located adjacent to the town Migdal HaEmek and short distances from the cities of Afula and Nazareth. It falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The kibbutz was established in 1954 by members of '' Kvutzat HaSharon'' who previously lived in Ramat David, as well as former residents of Gevat, including Haim Gvati, later a government minister. It was initially named Ihud HaSharon - Gevat, but was later renamed after the biblical town of Yefia (Joshua 19:12), as does the name of the Arab town of Yafa an-Naseriyye. Economy The economy of Yifat is based on light industry, agriculture, greenhouses, plant nurseries, cattle, sheep, and chickens, as well as the hospitality industry. The sixth-grade school “Western Valley” and a performing arts complex are located within the kibbutz, as is the Pioneer Settlement Museum. Yifat ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarid
Sarid () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near Migdal HaEmek, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Ottoman-era village of Khanâfis During the Ottoman era a Muslim village called Ikhneifis (also Khanâfis and other versions), meaning "beetles", stood at the site of present Sarid. Kneffis, and the neighbouring towns and villages of Nazareth, Mejdal, Yafa, Jebatha and Ma'alul, paid taxes to the monks of Nazareth, who bought the right to collect these taxes from the Ottoman authorities in 1777 for two hundred dollars. Thirty years later, they again purchased this right, though this time for two thousands five hundred dollars, owing to the rise in the price of cereals and ground rents.De Haas, 1934, p361/ref> A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin showed the place, named as ''Karm Ennefiiceh''. In 1838, ''Ukhneifis'' or ''Khuneifis'' was noted as a village in the Nazareth District.Robi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramat David
Ramat David () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Jezreel Valley near Ramat David Airbase, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The kibbutz was established in 1926, and was named after David Lloyd George, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom when the Balfour Declaration was made. The German-Jewish architect Richard Kauffmann drew up plans for the design of Ramat David in 1931. The British author Roald Dahl landed his RAF Hurricane at the British Mandate airstrip at Ramat David early in 1941. He describes the German Jewish refugee children living there at that time in his autobiography '' Going Solo''. On 22 May 1948 Egyptian planes attacked the airbase, damaging and destroying a number of British Royal Air Force planes. Notable people * Ze'ev Herring (1910–1988), politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1969 and 1974 * Ruth Westheimer (1928–2024), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mizra
Mizra () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located between Afula and Nazareth, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Kibbutz Mizra was established during Hanukkah in 1923 by the first immigrants of the Third Aliyah. It was founded on the lands of the Palestinian Arab village of Rub al-Nasra, which were purchased from the Sursock family, a major absentee landowner of Lebanese origin. The inhabitants, approximately 50 families, were tenants and became dispossessed. The village was one of at least 20 Palestinian Arab villages that disappeared in the early 20th century due to Jewish land purchases and settlement in the Jezreel Valley (Marj ibn Amer). List of villages sold by Sursocks and their partners to the Zionists since British occupation of Palestine, evidence to the Shaw Commission, 1930, p.1074, exhibit 71 The following year the founders of the kibbutz were joined by a group which had formed in Haifa, and in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merhavia (kibbutz)
Merhavia () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located to the east of Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . Etymology The name Merhavia is derived from Psalm 118: In the figurative sense, the phrase connotes 'freedom from distress and anxiety', which resonated with the experience of Jews immigrating to the Land of Israel and achieving a new homeland without the straits, or distress, of persecution. History Bronze Age According to the Survey of Western Palestine (SWP, 1882), it was possibly the place called ''Alpha'' in the list of Thutmes III. Crusader-Ayyubid period In the Crusader period it was known as ''La Fève'' or ''Castrum Fabe''. It had a Templar castle (first mentioned in 1169/72), of which just some mounds remain. The area was under Crusader control between 1099 and 1187. In 1183 the Battle of Al-Fule took place here, between the Crusaders and the forces of Saladin. An aerial photograph taken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kfar HaHoresh
Kfar HaHoresh () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near Nazareth, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The kibbutz was established in 1933 by members of the Gordonia youth movement who had previously been living in Ness Ziona. The land had been bought by the Jewish National Fund in 1930. Today the kibbutz has been privatized. The Arabic-language radio station ''Radio A-Shams'' broadcasts from the kibbutz. The Kfar HaHoresh forest includes the remains of Ma'alul village, a depopulated Palestinian location. A nearby archaeological site dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) is part of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, a Neolithic culture centered in upper Mesopotamia and the Levant, dating to years ago, that is, 8800–6500 BC. It was Type site, typed by British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon ... period has been under excavation since the early 1990s. File:כפר החור ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HaSolelim
HaSolelim () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near Kiryat Tiv'on, Nazareth and Shefa-'Amr, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . Etymology Initially called as Tzippori B, Named after the ancient site located nearby. It was later renamed "HaSolelim" (The Road Builders) with the name symbolising the wishes of the founders to pave the way for new settlements in the Land of Israel. History The nearby Palestinian town of Saffuriya had been almost emptied of its 4,000 inhabitants in July 1948. By early January, 1949, about 500 inhabitants had filtered back, but "neighbouring settlements coveted Saffuriya lands". The "Northern Front" ordered their eviction, which was carried out the 7 January 1949. From February and onwards in the same year, the land of Saffuriya was distributed to neighbouring Jewish settlements. The kibbutz HaSolelim was established in July 1949 by members of the Maccabi Hatzair movement and by mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
