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Ma'ayan Harod
Ma'ayan Harod () or Ain Jalut ( ', or , and ) is an all-year spring in the Harod Valley (the easternmost part of the Jezreel Valley) on the northwest corner of Mount Gilboa, that was the location of the 13th-century Battle of Ain Jalut. This was a major turning point in world history that saw the Mamluks inflict the first of two defeats on the Mongols that ultimately halted their invasion of the Levant and Egypt. The traditional name of Ain Jalut has been used since the 12th century and is commonly believed to mean "Spring of Goliath". Alternative etymologies have suggested that it might be derived from the name Gilead, potentially an archaic name for Mount Gilboa. Other names given to the site include "En Harod" or "Ein Harod", a biblical place name that was associated with Ain Jalut in the 19th century; subsequent scholarship, specifically the work of Israel Finkelstein and Oded Lipschits, has refuted this connection. Other associations have also been suggested, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ain Jalud In The PEF Survey Of Palestine
Ain (, ; ) is a departments of France, French department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Eastern France. Named after the Ain (river), Ain river, it is bordered by the Saône and Rhône rivers. Ain is located on the country's eastern edge, on the France–Switzerland border, Swiss border, where it neighbours the Cantons of Switzerland, cantons of Canton of Geneva, Geneva and Vaud. In 2019, it had a population of 652,432.Populations légales 2019: 01 Ain INSEE Ain is composed of four geographically different areas (Bresse, Dombes, Bugey and Pays de Gex), each of which contribute to the diverse and dynamic economic development of the department. In Bresse, agriculture and agro-industry are dominated by the cultivation of cereals, cattle breeding, milk and cheese production as well as poultry f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baha Ad-Din Ibn Shaddad
Bahāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf ibn Rāfiʿ ibn Tamīm (; the honorific title "Bahā' ad-Dīn" means "splendor of the faith"; sometimes known as Bohadin or Boha-Eddyn) (6 March 1145 – 8 November 1234) was a 12th-century Arabic jurist, scholar and historian notable for writing a biography of Saladin whom he knew well. Life Ibn Shaddad was born in Mosul on 10 Ramadan 539 AH (6 March 1145 CE), where he studied the Qur'an, ''hadith'', and Muslim law before moving to the Nizamiyya madrasa in Baghdad where he rapidly became ''mu'id'' ("assistant professor"). At an early age, Ibn Shaddad lost his father and he was raised by his maternal uncles the Banu Shaddad, from whom he got his name 'Ibn Shaddad'. About 1173, he returned to Mosul as ''mudarris'' ("professor"). In 1188, returning from ''Hajj'', ibn Shaddād was summoned by Saladin who had read and been impressed by his writings. He was "permanently enrolled" in the service of Saladin, who appointed him ''qadi al-'a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kishon River
The Kishon River (, ; , – ''the intermittent river''; alternative Arabic, ) is a river in Israel that flows into the Mediterranean Sea near the city of Haifa. Course The Kishon River is a perennial stream in Israel. Its furthest source is the Gilboa mountains, and it flows in a west-northwesterly direction through the Jezreel Valley, emptying into the Haifa Bay in the Mediterranean Sea. Its drainage basin, of , includes much of Jezreel Valley and the Western Galilee, and parts of Mount Carmel. Biblical references The Kishon is mentioned six times in the Hebrew Bible, among them the following verses: *In Judges , Sisera's Canaanite army is encamped at the Kishon River and the prophet Deborah predicts their defeat; in , in her song of celebration, the Kishon River is praised for washing away the Canaanite army. * 1 Kings names the Kishon River as the site where the prophets of Baal were executed on Elijah's orders, following Elijah's contest with the prophets of Baal n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ma'ayan Harod National Park, Harod Valley, Israel 10
Maayan or Ma'ayan () can refer to: Given name * Maayan Amir (born 1978), artist and independent curator * Maayan Davidovich (born 1988), Israeli Olympic windsurfer * Maayan Furman-Shahaf (born 1986), Israeli high jumper and triple jumper * Maayan Strauss (born 1982), Israeli artist * Maayan Sheleff, Israeli independent curator and artist Surname * Tom Maayan (born 1993), Israeli basketball player in the Israeli National League Places * Ma'ayan Baruch, a kibbutz in northern Israel * Ma'ayan Tzvi, a kibbutz in northern Israel Other * ''Maayan'' (magazine), an Israeli magazine for poetry, literature, art, and ideas * ''Maayan'' (film), a 2001 Tamil drama film * Ma'ayan HaChinuch HaTorani, an education network in Israel See also * Maya (other) * Mayan (other) Mayan most commonly refers to: * Maya peoples, various indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica and northern Central America * Maya civilization, pre-Columbian culture of Mesoamerica and northern Central Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Nature And Parks Authority
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority (, ; ) is an Israeli government organization that manages nature reserves and national parks in Israel, the Golan Heights and parts of the West Bank. The organization was founded in April 1998, merging two organizations (The National Parks Authority and the Nature Reserves Authority) that had managed the nature reserves and national parks separately since 1964. The director of the Authority is Raya Shurki. The symbol of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority is the ibex, a mountain goat similar to the antelope. One of the missions of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority is enforcing Israeli wildlife protection laws. Regions As of 2015, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority was the overseer of 400 nature reserves and 81 national parks, covering over 20 percent of Israel’s land mass. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ma'ayan Harod National Park
Ma'ayan Harod National Park is a public park in Israel administered by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority that contains the spring known as Ma'ayan Harod or Ain Jalut that now feeds a recreational swimming pool, as well as the house and tomb of Yehoshua Hankin. The house of Hankin has become a museum showing historical artifacts and life-size mannequins of the couple Hankin. Next to the museum is a war memorial for residents of the valley who died in Israel's wars. The park has been described as "well maintained", but visitors to the site "have absolutely no way of knowing that one of the climactic battles of the Middle Ages was fought in it" (referring to the Battle of Ain Jalut). Features Natural spring The all-year-round spring known as Ma'ayan Harod or Ain Jalut is used to feed a recreational swimming pool. The source of the spring as well as other springs in the Beit She'an Valley to the east, comes from fresh rainwater that percolate into the limestone hills of Sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ein Harod
Ein Harod () was a kibbutz in northern Israel near Mount Gilboa. Founded in 1921, it became the center of Mandatory Israel's kibbutz movement, hosting the headquarters of the largest kibbutz organisation, HaKibbutz HaMeuhad. In 1923 part of the community split off into Tel Yosef, and in 1952 the rest of the community split into Ein Harod (Ihud) and Ein Harod (Meuhad). It was named after the nearby spring (hydrology), spring then known in Arabic as Ain Jalut, "Spring of Goliath", Hebraization of Palestinian place names, Hebraized as "Ein Harod", now Ma'ayan Harod. It was built on land formerly belonging to the villages of Qumya and Tamra, Jezreel Valley, Tamra. History Middle Ages The original kibbutz was located near the 1260 Battle of Ayn Jalut, battlefield of Ayn Jalut, a battle in which the Mongol Empire, Mongols suffered their first defeat at the hands of the Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo), Mamluks, which arguably saved the Mamluk sultanate from annihilation. Ottoman era and Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kibbutz
A kibbutz ( / , ; : kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania Alef, Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including Factory, industrial plants and high-tech Business, enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism. In recent decades, some kibbutzim have been Privatization, privatized and changes have been made in the communal lifestyle. A member of a kibbutz is called a ''kibbutznik'' ( / ; plural ''kibbutznikim'' or ''kibbutzniks''), the suffix ''-nik'' being of Slavic languages, Slavic origin. In 2010, there were 270 kibbutzim in Israel with a total population of 126,000. Their factories and farms account for 9% of Israel's industrial output, worth US$8 billion, and 40% of its agricultural output, worth over US$1.7 billion. Some kibbutzim had also developed substantial high-tech and mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Land Development Company
Israel Land Development Company (ILDC; , ''Hakhsharat HaYishuv'') is one of Israel's largest conglomerates, with fields including real estate, construction, energy and hotels. It was acquired in 1987 by Yaakov Nimrodi. History ILDC was founded in 1909 by the Zionist Federation as the Palestine Land Development Company, or Palestine Land Development Corporation. It was a program of the practicalist movement in early Zionism, particularly in the decade before the start of World War I. The PLDC worked to purchasing land, to train Jews in agricultural pursuits, and to establish Jewish agricultural settlements in Palestine. By the outbreak of World War I it had purchased about 50,000 dunam (about 4600 hectares) of land. It was attempting to purchase nearly 3 times that amount in the Jezreel Valley The Jezreel Valley (from the ), or Marj Ibn Amir (), also known as the Valley of Megiddo, is a large fertile plain and inland valley in the Northern District (Israel), Northern Distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sursock Purchases
The Sursock Purchases were land purchases made by Jewish organizations from the absentee landowning Lebanese Greek Orthodox Christian Sursock family, mainly from 1901 to 1925. These included the Jezreel Valley and Haifa Bay, as well as other lands in what became the Mandate for Palestine. These collectively formed the largest Jewish land purchase in Palestine during the period of early Jewish immigration. The Jezreel Valley was considered the most fertile region of Palestine. The Sursock Purchase represented 58% of Jewish land purchases from absentee foreign landlords (as identified in a partial list in a 25 February 1946 memorandum submitted by the Arab Higher Committee to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry). The buyers demanded the existing population be relocated and, as a result, the Palestinian Arab tenant farmers were evicted, and approximately 20–25 villages were depopulated. Some of the evicted population received compensation though the buyers were not required ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehoshua Hankin
Yehoshua Hankin (, 1864 – 11 November 1945) was a Zionism, Zionist activist who was responsible for most of the major land purchases of the World Zionist Organization, Zionist Organization in Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Palestine (region), Palestine and Mandatory Palestine – in particular for the Sursock Purchase. Biography Yehoshua Hankin was born in Kremenchuk, Russian Empire, and moved to Rishon LeZion with his parents in 1882. In 1887, his family moved to Gedera. In 1888, Hankin married :HE:אולגה חנקין, Olga Belkind (1852–1943) in Gedera. She was a woman twelve years his senior, who would become his partner in all his endeavors. Givat Olga, a neighborhood of Hadera, is named after her. Their marriage remained childless. Hankin died in Tel Aviv and was buried in the Galilee next to his wife Olga, at the house ("Bet Hankin") he had built for them at Well of Harod, Ein Harod on Mount Gilboa. Land purchases While living in Gedera, Hankin became friendly with local A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zionism
Zionism is an Ethnic nationalism, ethnocultural nationalist movement that emerged in History of Europe#From revolution to imperialism (1789–1914), Europe in the late 19th century that aimed to establish and maintain a national home for the Jews, Jewish people, pursued through the colonization of Palestine (region), Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Judaism, with central importance in Jewish history. Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian people, Palestinian Arabs as possible. Zionism initially emerged in Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe as a secular nationalist movement in the late 19th century, in reaction to newer waves of antisemitism and in response to the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment. The arrival of Zionist settlers to Palestine during this period is widely seen as the start of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The Zionist claim to Palestine was base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
