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Nahal Amud
Nahal Amud (), also known as the Wadi al-Amud, is a stream in the Upper Galilee region of Israel that flows into the Sea of Galilee. History The source of the stream, Ramat Dalton, is located 800 meters above sea level. Its drainage basin includes the peaks of Birya Fortress, Mount Canaan (955 meters) and Mount Meron (1,204 meters) and flows south through eastern Galilee to the northwest part of the Sea of Galilee – a height of less than 200 meters below sea level. The stream is named after a Column, pillar that rises high above ground and is located near a channel of the stream near Kibbutz Hukok. The gorge that forms the channel at this point holds many caves once inhabited by ''Homo heidelbergensis'' and later by Neanderthal Man such as the cave at Zuttiyeh and the Amud cave. They were the object of the first Paleoanthropology, paleoanthropological excavations in Mandatory Palestine in 1925–1926. The caves contained hominin remains as well as Mousterian and Acheulean arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadita
Kadita () is an unrecognised community settlement in northern Israel. Located in the Upper Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merom HaGalil Regional Council. In it had a population of . History In 1988 four families received land from the Israel Land Administration in return for giving up their land on Mount Meron. Israel Land Administration The site had previously been the Arab village of Qaddita, whose residents fled during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.False Promises of Paradise Haaretz, 6 May 2008 Rabbi Tarfon was buried in the area. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paleoanthropology
Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of paleontology and anthropology which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as hominization, through the reconstruction of evolutionary kinship lines within the family Hominidae, working from biological evidence (such as petrified skeletal remains, bone fragments, footprints) and cultural evidence (such as stone tools, artifacts, and settlement localities). The field draws from and combines primatology, paleontology, biological anthropology, and cultural anthropology. As technologies and methods advance, genetics plays an ever-increasing role, in particular to examine and compare DNA structure as a vital tool of research of the evolutionary kinship lines of related species and genera. Etymology The term paleoanthropology derives from Greek palaiós (παλαιός) "old, ancient", ánthrōpos (ἄνθρωπος) "man, human" and the suffix -logía (-λογία) "study of". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korazim Stream
Korazim () is a community settlement in northern Israel. Located on the Korazim plateau to the north of the Sea of Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was founded in 1983 as a moshav, but after it merged with Ma'of it became a community settlement. It is found just north of the Sea of Galilee. It is named after ancient Chorazin, mentioned in the New Testament (), now the site of a much-visited archaeological park, which is located about 1 km east of the modern village. It was founded on the land of the depopulated Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ... village of Al-Samakiyya. See also * Chorazin References External linksVillage websiteTalmud-era winepr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahal Hozim
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 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hukok Stream
Hukok () is a kibbutz in Israel. Located near the Sea of Galilee and the cities of Tiberias and Safed, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek HaYarden Regional Council. In it had a population of . History In 1945, the Hukok fort was built by the Solel Boneh company as a strategic settlement post and named after the biblical village of Huqoq (), the supposed burial place of the prophet Habakkuk. It stood near the Palestinian village of Yaquq. The kibbutz was established in 1946 by graduates of the Mikveh Israel agricultural school and members of the HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed youth movement. Yaquq was depopulated on May 1, 1948 during the civil war phase of the war. After the 1948 Palestine war, the fort was used as an absorption center for new immigrants. Between 2002 and 2003, as part of a nationwide program, the kibbutz took in 76 immigrants (22 families) from Latin America Latin America is the cultural region of the Americas where Romance languages are p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Livnim Stream
Livnim (, ''lit.'' Birches) is a community settlement in northern Israel. Located northwest of the Sea of Galilee in the western Ginosar Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merom HaGalil Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The community was founded in 1982 by members of nearby moshavim as a workers' moshav, on the land of the depopulated Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ... village of Ghuwayr Abu Shusha. In 1989 it became a community settlement. It is named after the plant "Livne" ('' Styrax officinalis),'' that grows in the area.Hareuveni, Imanuel (2010). Eretz Israel Lexicon' (in Hebrew). Matach. p. 537. References {{authority control Community settlements Populated places in Northern District (Israel) Populated pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamai Stream
Shammai (c. 50 BCE – c. 30 CE, , ''Šammaʾy'') also known as Shammai the Elder (שַׁמַּאי הַזָּקֵן) was a Jewish scholar of the 1st century and an important figure in Judaism's core work of rabbinic literature, the Mishnah. Shammai was the most eminent contemporary of the sage and scholar Hillel. His teachings mostly agree with those of Hillel, except on three issues. Both were divided over an earlier rabbinic dispute, regarding the actual laying on of hands upon a sacrificial animal on a Festival Day, which Hillel permitted.Jerusalem Talmud ('' Hagigah'' 2:2 0b; 12a Their disciples, who had differing views to their masters, disputed many other halakhic matters. The School of Shammai, founded by Shammai, is almost invariably mentioned along with the School of Hillel, founded by Hillel. They differed fundamentally from each other. Although they were contemporaries, Hillel was nearly 60 years old at the time of Shammai's birth. While the terms "liberal" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akbara Stream
Akbara () is an Arab village in the Israeli municipality of Safed, which included in 2010 more than 200 families. It is 2.5 km south of Safed City. The village was rebuilt in 1977, close to the old village destroyed in 1948 during the 1947–1949 Palestine war. Location The village of 'Akbara was situated 2.5 km south of Safad, along the two sides of a deep wadi that ran north–south. Southeast of the village lay ''Khirbet al-'Uqeiba'', identified as the Roman village ''Achabare'', or ''Acchabaron''. This ''khirba'' was a populated village as late as 1904. History The first 'Akbara mention is during Second Temple period by Josephus Flavius, he noted ''the rock of Acchabaron (Ακχαβαρων πετραν)'' among the places in the Upper Galilee he fortified as a preparation for the First Jewish Revolt, while leading rebel forces against the Romans in Galilee.Leibner, 2009, p108/ref> This site is identified with caves situated along the cliffs south of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meron Stream
Meron may refer to: People * Meron (surname), including a list of people with the name * Meron Amanuel (born 1990), Eritrean cyclist * Meron Benvenisti (born 1934), Israeli political scientist * Meron Getnet (fl. from 2013), Ethiopian actress, journalist and political activist * Meron Gribetz (fl. from 2013), Israeli technology entrepreneur * Meron Mazur (born 1962), Ukrainian Catholic bishop * Meron Russom (born 1987), Eritrean cyclist * Meron Teshome (born 1992), Eritrean cyclist Other uses * Meron (physics) or half-instanton, a Euclidean space-time solution of the Yang–Mills field equations * Meron, Israel, a town ** Mount Meron, a mountain * Meron School, in Tel Aviv, Israel * Meron, part of an insect's leg in insect morphology Insect morphology is the study and description of the morphology (biology), physical form of insects. The terminology used to describe insects is similar to that used for other arthropods due to their shared evolutionary history. Three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tributary
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), 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] |
Dunam
A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; ; ; ), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area analogous in role (but not equal) to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount of land that could be ploughed by a team of oxen in a day. The legal definition was(when?) "forty standard paces in length and breadth", but its actual area varied considerably from place to place, from a little more than in Ottoman Palestine to around in Iraq.Λεξικό της κοινής Νεοελληνικής (Dictionary of Modern Greek), Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών, Θεσσαλονίκη, 1998. The unit is still in use in many areas previously ruled by the Ottomans, although the new or metric dunam has been redefined(as of when, by who?) as exactly one decare (), which is 1/10 hectare (1/10 × ), like the modern Greek royal stremma. History The name dönüm, from the Ottoman Turkish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acheulean
Acheulean (; also Acheulian and Mode II), from the French after the type site of Saint-Acheul, is an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture characterized by the distinctive oval and pear-shaped "hand axes" associated with ''Homo erectus'' and derived species such as ''Homo heidelbergensis''. Acheulean tools were produced during the Lower Palaeolithic era across Africa and much of West Asia, South Asia, East Asia and Europe, and are typically found with ''Homo erectus'' remains. It is thought that Acheulean technologies first developed about 2 million years ago, derived from the more primitive Oldowan technology associated with ''Homo habilis''. The Acheulean includes at least the early part of the Middle Paleolithic. Its end is not well defined; if Sangoan (also known as Epi-Acheulean) is included, it may be taken to last until as late as 130,000 years ago. In Europe and Western Asia, early Neanderthals adopted Acheulean technology, transitioning to Mouste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
