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Upper Galilee Regional Council
The Upper Galilee Regional Council (, Romanization of Hebrew, translit. ''Mo'atza Azorit HaGalil HaElyon'') is a regional council (Israel), regional council in Israel's Upper Galilee region, bordered by the Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council and the Golan Regional Council, as well as a border with southern Lebanon. The municipal area has a population of 15,500 and is headed by Giora Salz since December 2012, following 14 years by veteran Aharon Valenci. Its headquarters are located in Kiryat Shmona, an independent city not included in the council's jurisdiction. Communities The council consists of 29 kibbutzim: External links Official website Upper Galilee Regional Council, Regional councils in Northern District (Israel) {{Israel-geo-stub ... [...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] |
Gadot, Israel
Gadot () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Korazim Plateau, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In , it had a population of . History Kibbutz Gadot (originally ''Hagovrim'') was founded in 1949 on the site of the destroyed moshava of Mishmar HaYarden by Nahal youth from HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed and Holocaust survivors, members of HaKibbutz HaMeuhad. It was renamed to Gadot in 1955 due its proximity to the banks of the Jordan River. During the 1950s and 1960s, the kibbutz suffered from several assaults by the Syrian Army and was hit by many artillery bombardments. On 7 April 1967, when 6 Syrian MiG 21s were shot down, the kibbutz suffered a severe bombardment during which almost all of its buildings were hit. Two months later, during the Six-Day War, the kibbutz was once again bombarded and most of its buildings were destroyed or badly damaged. The state of the kibbutz and the turning-point of the war are evoked in a song performed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ma'ayan Barukh
Ma'ayan Baruch () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near the Lebanese border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The kibbutz was founded on 11 March 1947, on the site of Hamara, a moshav established by Jewish farmers in 1919 but abandoned in 1920 due to financial hardship and security issues. It was named for Baruch (Bernard) Gordon, a South African Zionist. The founders were members of other kvutzot who had met in Kfar Giladi; members of the HaTenua HaMeuhedet youth movement, members of Habonim who immigrated to British Mandate of Palestine as Ma'apilim (illegal immigrants of Aliyah Bet), and members of a garin of pioneering soldiers from South Africa who fought in the British Army during World War II. After the 1948 Palestine war, Ma'ayan Baruch took over part of the land belonging to the newly depopulated Palestinian village of al-Sanbariyya. During the Gaza war, northern Israeli border communiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manara, Israel
Manara () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located on the of the Naftali Mountains, Upper Galilee, adjacent to the Lebanese border and overlooking the Hula Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was formerly inhabited by Arabs, when it was known as Kh el Menarah. In 1881, the PEF's '' Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it as "ruins of a modern Arab village, several rock-cut cisterns, and one wine-press" In the 1940s, 2538 dunams of land were purchased by the Jewish National Fund from Asa'ad Bey Khuri of Beirut.Avneri, 1984, p203/ref> The kibbutz was established in 1943 by members of the HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed youth group and young immigrants from Germany and Poland. Leon Uris used an incident from the history of the kibbutz in his novel, '' Exodus''. The scene of the night hike with the children from Gan Dafna as the kibbutz faced attack was based on the war-time transport o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malkia
Malkia () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near the Blue Line (Lebanon), Lebanese border and Kiryat Shmona, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in March 1949 by six former Palmach soldiers who had been demobilization, demobilised at the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Located on the sites of the depopulated Jabal Amil villages of Qadas and al-Malkiyya, it was named after al-Malkiyya, a holdover name from the biblical village of Malkia, itself the name of a priestly family from biblical times (Nehemiah 10:4) that settled here, on whose lands it was established. During the Gaza war, 2023 war between Hamas and Israel, northern Israeli border communities, including Malkia, faced targeted attacks by Hezbollah and Palestinian political violence, Palestinian factions based in Lebanon, and were evacuated. Notable residents *Micha Bar-Am (born 1930), photographer and photojournalist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahanayim
Mahanayim () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Korazim Plateau, around three kilometres northeast of Rosh Pinna, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The land on which Mahanayim stands was purchased in 1892 by the Ahavat Zion (Love of Zion) Hovevei Zion organization, with the aim of establishing a moshava in the area. In 1898 a number of families from Galicia (Central Europe), Galicia settled in the area, naming it Mahanayim after the biblical city in Gilead, where Jacob stayed before he met again with his brother Esau and saw angels, therefore calling it Mahanayim (camps) of God (Genesis creation narrative, Genesis 32:2). However, it was not a success, largely due to the settlers' lack of familiarity with the region, a shortage of money, and a lack of professionalism, resulting in the community disintegrating. The Jewish Colonization Association ran a trial of growing tobacco in the area, but it too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lehavot HaBashan
Lehavot HaBashan () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Hula Valley around ten kilometres southeast of Kiryat Shmona, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in 1945 on land which had formally belonged to Amir, Israel, kibbutz Amir, by former Hashomer Hatzair members and the ''Lehavot'' gar'in, which was composed of aliyah, immigrants from Germany and Poland brought to the country by Youth Aliyah. Kibbutz Amir had moved north in 1942, to land bought from another Arab village, al-Dawwara, in order to avoid the winter floods. One of them was Dov Zakin, later a member of the Knesset. In 1947 the kibbutz moved to its present location. The name is derived from that of the founders' gar'in, together with the Golan Heights, also known as Bashan Mountains, which overlook the kibbutz. Economy LVT, a fire protection equipment manufacturer that specializes in the development of fire pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kfar Szold
Kfar Szold () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Hula Valley in the Galilee Panhandle, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Kfar Szold was founded in the early 1940s by Jewish aliyah, immigrants from Hungary, Austria and Weimar Republic, Germany and was named after Henrietta Szold, who founded Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America, Hadassah, the Women's Zionism, Zionist organization. During World War II, she helped rescue children in the Holocaust and transported them to Mandatory Palestine, Mandate Palestine, including places such as Kfar Szold. On 9 January 1948, about 200 Arabs crossed the Syrian border and attacked the kibbutz in reprisal for the Haganah Al-Khisas raid, attack on the nearby Palestinians, Palestinian village of al-Khisas a few weeks before. The British Army joined forces with the Jewish defenders, using artillery fire and killing 25 of the attackers.H. Levenberg, Militar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kfar HaNassi
Kfar HaNassi () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Korazim Plateau, 35 km north of the Sea of Galilee, and 6 km east of Rosh Pinna (near the hilly section of Jordan River), it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The kibbutz was founded in 1948 by a group of History of the Jews in the United Kingdom, British Jewish aliyah, immigrants, members of the Habonim Dror, Habonim movement. Named ''Kibbutz HaBonim'' at first, the name was later changed to Kfar HaNassi, after Chaim Weizmann, the first President of Israel. In 2007, Kfar HaNassi had 300 members, many kibbutz-born children, and a large group of residents who live on the premises. Boris Johnson was a volunteer at the kibbutz in the 1980s. Economy In the 1980s, the kibbutz economy was based on poultry and sheep farming, a valve factory, and apple orchards. Later, it opened a guesthouse with country lodging. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kfar Giladi
Kfar Giladi () is a kibbutz in the Galilee Panhandle of northern Israel. Located south of Metula on the Naftali Mountains above the Hula Valley and along the Blue Line (Lebanon), Lebanese border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In , it had a population of . Kfar Giladi is also notable for archaeological discoveries such as Neolithic and Chalcolithic findings as well as the remains of a Jews, Jewish mausoleum dating from Syria Palaestina, Roman times. History Kfar Giladi was founded in 1916 by members of Hashomer on land owned by the Jewish Colonisation Association. It was named after Hashomer#Notable members, Israel Giladi, one of the founders of the Hashomer movement. The area was subject to intermittent border adjustments between the British and the French, and in 1919, the British relinquished the northern section of the Upper Galilee containing Tel Hai, Metula, Hamra, and Kfar Giladi to the France, French jurisdiction. After Battle of Tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kfar Blum
Kfar Blum () is a kibbutz in the Hula Valley part of the Upper Galilee in Israel. Located about southeast of the town of Kiryat Shmona, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Kibbutz Kfar Blum was founded in November 1943 by the Labor Zionism, Labor Zionist Habonim (now Habonim Dror) youth movement, adjacent to the Palestinian village of Al-Salihiyya, Palestine, Al-Salihiyya. The founding members of the kibbutz were primarily from the United Kingdom, South Africa, the United States and the Baltic States, Baltic countries. The kibbutz was named in honor of Léon Blum, the Jewish socialist former prime minister of France who was the focus of a widely publicized, and ultimately unsuccessful, show trial in 1942 mounted by the collaborationist Vichy France, Vichy regime. Economy Agriculture (cotton, dairy, fruit) and light industry (metal working) have formed the primary economic basis for the kibbutz. In recent y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadarim
Kadarim () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near Maghar, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in 1980 near Mount Kadarim, which was named after the potters of the village of Hananiah, famous for its pottery during the time of the Talmud and the Mishnah. Due to its proximity to a quarry at its initial site, the kibbutz was moved to its current location in 1987. Some believe that Habakkuk is buried near Kadarim, MyTzadik though others put his burial place near or at Toyserkan in |
