Dishon Valley

picture info	Dishon Valley The Dishon Stream (, Nahal Dishon) is an intermittent stream/''wadi'' in Upper Galilee, Israel. It is 26 kilometers long, starts on the eastern slope of Mount Meron and drains into the Jordan River in the area of the drained Hula Lake. It is one of the largest streams in East Upper Galilee. Its name is a modification of the name of the depopulated Palestinian village of Dayshum. mindat.org reports the following Arabic names associated with the stream: Wadi 'Uba (Ouadi Ouba), Wadi Fara, Wādi Hindāj, Wadi Nab' el Balat, and Wadi Nasir. Parts of the Israel National Trail run through the Dishon valley. Parts of the stream are in the Nahal Dishon Reserve (the central part of the stream) and the Reserve (parts of the slopes of the valley). Major tributaries: Nahal Aviv, Nahal Gush Halav, Nahal Tziv'on. Route 886 runs along the Dishon Stream for the whole length of the Dishon Stream Reserve. It used to be marked for SUV access, which was prohibited in the stream area in 2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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picture info	Tributaries Of The Jordan River A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (''main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which they flow, drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater, leading the water out into an ocean, another river, or into an endorheic basin. The Irtysh is a chief tributary of the Ob river and is also the longest tributary river in the world with a length of . The Madeira River is the largest tributary river by volume in the world with an average discharge of . A confluence, where two or more bodies of water meet, usually refers to the joining of tributaries. The opposite to a tributary is a distributary, a river or stream that branches off from and flows away from the main stream. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	List Of Rivers Of Israel This is a list of rivers of Israel. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Nahal (Hebrew, wiktionary:נחל) and Wadi (Arabic) commonly translate to Stream, more seldom River. Both words, when used as common nouns, also signify '(stream/river) valley'. Streams entirely on the West Bank are not listed here. Mediterranean Sea Rivers emptying into the Mediterranean Sea, listed from north to south. * Nahal Betzet (Arabic: Wadi Karkara) Nahal Kziv (Arabic: Wadi al-Qarn) Ga'aton River ** Nahal Meirav * Na'aman River (Hebrew: Nahal Na'aman, Arabic: Nahr al-Na'mein), ancient Belus River * Kishon River ** (Arabic: Wadi Abu Alhiya), formerly Nahal Nahash * Nahal Taninim (Arabic: Wadi az-Zarqa) * Hadera Stream (Arabic: Nahr Akhdar) * Nahal Alexander * Nahal Poleg (Arabic: Wadi al-Faliq) * Yarkon River Wadi Qana or Qanah (Hebrew: Nahal Qanah) Ayalon River (Arabic: Wadi Musrara) ** (Arabic: Wadi Amuriya) * Naha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Route 886 (Israel) Route 886 is a regional north-south highway in the far north of Israel. It begins in the south at Highway 89 and ends in the north at Route 899. Junctions (South to North) References See also List of highways in Israel {{Transportation in Israel 886 __NOTOC__ Year 886 (Roman numerals, DCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire March – A wide-ranging conspiracy against Emperor Basil I, led by John Kourkouas (9t ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Nahal Tziv'on Nahal () (acronym of ''Noar Halutzi Lohem'', lit. Fighting Pioneer Youth) is a program that combines military service with mostly social welfare and informal education projects such as youth movement activities, as well as training in entrepreneurship in urban development areas. Prior to the 1990s it was a paramilitary Israel Defense Forces program that combined military service and the establishment of agricultural settlements, often in peripheral areas. The Nahal groups of soldiers formed the core of the Nahal Infantry Brigade. History In 1948, a ''gar'in'' (core group) of Jewish pioneers wrote to Israel's first and then-current Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, requesting that members be allowed to do their military service as a group rather than being split up into different units at random. In response to this letter, Ben-Gurion created the Nahal program, which combined military service and farming. Some 108 kibbutzim and agricultural settlements were established by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Israel National Trail The Israel National Trail (, ''Shvil Yisra'el'') is a hiking trail that crosses the entire length of Israel, with its northern end at Kibbutz Dan in the far north of the country, extending to Eilat at the southernmost tip of Israel on the Red Sea, with a total length of .National Geographic names Israel National Trail as one of world's best Haaretz The trail was inaugurated in 1995. The trail is marked with three stripes (white, blue, and orange), and takes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Dayshum Dayshum (), also known by its variant name Dayshun was a Palestinian people, Palestinian village, depopulated on 30 October 1948 by the Sheva Brigade of Israeli paramilitary force Palmach in an offensive called Operation Hiram, where the village has been destroyed, and only house rubble left behind. Geography The village laid on a hillside overlooking the Wadi Hindaj stream and valley in the Upper Galilee, about above sea level. It was located north of Safed. History Dayshum was listed in the 1596 (or 1548) Ottoman Empire, Ottoman tax registers as a village in the ''nahiya'' (subdistrict) of Jira (part of Safad Sanjak), with a population of 50, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, olives, and fruits, as well as on other types of produce and property, such as goats, beehives, and a press that was used for processing either olives or grapes; a total of 2,112 akçe. All of the revenue went to a waqf (Muslim charitable endowmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Hula Lake Hula () is a Hawaiian dance form expressing chant (''oli'') or song (Mele (Hawaiian language), ''mele''). It was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Native Hawaiians who settled there. The hula dramatizes or portrays the words of the oli or mele in a visual dance form. There are many sub-styles of hula, with the two main categories being Hula ʻAuana and Hula Kahiko. Ancient hula, performed before Western encounters with Hawaii, is called ''kahiko''. It is accompanied by chant and traditional instruments. Hula, as it evolved under Western influence in the 19th and 20th centuries, is called ''auana'' (a word that means "to wander" or "drift"). It is accompanied by song and Western-influenced musical instruments such as the guitar, the ukulele, ukulele, and the double bass. Terminology for two additional categories is beginning to enter the hula lexicon: "Monarchy" includes any hula which were composed and choreographed during the 19th century. During that time the influx ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]