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Valley Of Springs Regional Council
Emek HaMa'ayanot Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Emek HaMa'ayanot'', lit. ''Valley of the Springs Regional Council'') is a regional council (Israel), regional council in the Northern District (Israel), Northern District of Israel that encompasses most of the settlements in the Beit She'an Valley. Until 2008 it was known as the Beit She'an Valley Regional Council (''Mo'atza Azorit Bik'at Beit She'an''). [The new incarnation of the Beit She'an Valley: "The Valley of the Springs"], ''Makor Rishon'', June 13, 2008 Physical geography The territory of the regional council is bounded by the Jezreel Valley in the west, in the north by the Lower Galilee, to the east by the Jordan Riv ...[...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] |
Gesher (kibbutz)
Gesher () is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northeastern Israel. Founded in 1939 by Jewish refugees from Germany, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. It is situated 10 km south of kibbutz Deganya Aleph and 15 km south of Tiberias. In it had a population of . It is named after the neighbouring Roman bridge over the Jordan River ("gesher" means bridge in Hebrew), known as Jisr Majami, 1 km to the east in what is now known as the Naharayim area. The original site of the kibbutz, depopulated during the 1948 war, known as ''Old Gesher'', was located immediately north of the old Roman bridge. History Khan and Palestinian village The original site of the kibbutz – 1 km east of its current location – was originally a ''khan'' or caravanserai built around 1365, active from the Mamluk period to the early 19th century. Situated right next to the west end of Jisr Majami ("bridge of the meeting"), it was one of the earlie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shluhot
Shluhot (, lit. "Branches") is an Orthodox kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. Located about three kilometres south of the city of Beit She'an, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Shluhot was founded in 1948 by former members of the Bnei Akiva Zionist youth movement on the land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Ashrafiyya. Initially, a temporary camp was set up along with a group from the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. After each group was assigned land for a kibbutz, the secular group members founded Reshafim. Kibbutz Shluhot is one of four religious kibbutzim located in a cluster south of Beit She'an, from Shluhot at the base of Mount Gilboa, Ein HaNatziv and Sde Eliyahu to Tirat Zvi adjacent to the Jordan River. In 2007 Shluhot began to host a special needs school, Kulanu Academy, which teaches special needs children skills for adulthood and takes them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sde Nahum
Sde Nahum (, ''lit.'' Nahum Field) is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. Located around 4 km northwest of Beit She'an, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The nearby Palestinian village of Saffuriya had been almost emptied of its 4000 inhabitants in July 1948. By early January, 1949, about 500 villagers had filtered back, but "neighbouring settlements coveted Saffuriya lands". The "Northern Front" ordered their eviction, which was carried out the 7th of January 1949. The Saffuriya land was then distributed to its neighbouring Jewish settlements. In February 1949, 1,500 Dunams of Saffuriya land was given to Sde Nahum. File:שדה נחום - ביום העליה.-JNF032956.jpeg, Sde Nahum day of the Aliyah 1937 File:שדה נחום - ביום העליה.-JNF032957.jpeg, Sde Nahum founders 1937 File:שדה נחום - בעליה לשדה נחום, בן לילה הוקמה חומת ה ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sde Eliyahu
Sde Eliyahu (, ''lit.'' Eliyahu Field) is a Orthodox Judaism, religious kibbutz in northern Israel. Located five kilometres south of Beit She'an, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Sde Eliyahu was founded on 8 May 1939 by Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany as a tower and stockade settlement. It was named after the 19th-century Rabbi Eliyahu Guttmacher, one of the early leaders of Religious Zionism. It was part of a cluster of religious kibbutzim that includes Ein HaNatziv, Shluhot and Tirat Zvi. The population of the kibbutz grew from 60 in 1937 to 208 by 1948. After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Sde Eliyahu began to farm the land of the depopulated Palestinians, Palestinian village of Arab al-'Arida. Economy The kibbutz produces Phoenix dactylifera, dates, olives, grapes, pomegranates, spices and field crops, as well as dairy cattle and poultry. Organic farming methods and biological pest control, non-p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reshafim
Reshafim () is a kibbutz in northeastern Israel. Located two kilometres to the south of the city of Beit She'an in the Beit She'an Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In , it had a population of . History The cooperative association was registered on 13 October 1944, as "Reshafim Kibutz Hashomer Hatzair Kvutzat Poalim Lehityashvut Shetufit Limited".Government of Palestine, The Palestine Gazette, No. 1372, p. 1096, 9 November 1944. A first settlement was established by Hashomer Hatzair members movement in 1947 at Kiryat Haim. In 1948 land was allocated to Reshafim from village lands of the Palestinian village of al-Ashrafiyya, which was depopulated after 10–11 May during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. In 1949 the members and their children moved to the permanent location near Beit She'an. For the first few months at the site, the members of kibbutz Reshafim lived temporarily in a camp jointly with the members of kibbutz Shluhot which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nir David
Nir David (, ''lit.'' David's Meadow) is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. Founded on 10 December 1936 as Tel Amal, the first of the tower and stockade settlements, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Nir David was founded on the 10 December 1936, under the name of Tel Amal. It was established as the first tower and stockade settlement (and the first kibbutz) in the Beit She'an Valley. In the 1940s, the kibbutz was renamed Nir David in honor of David Wolffsohn, second president of the World Zionist Organization. The communal dining room and two children's homes were designed by Zeev Rechter, architect of some of Israel's most iconic buildings. A group of Holocaust survivors joined the kibbutz in the 1940s. In the 1990s, Nir David developed a tourism industry based around the Asi river (a.k.a. ), which flows through it. Around 2010, the kibbutz fenced off the community and installed a lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neve Ur
Neve Ur () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Beit She'an Valley on the Jordan River and to the south of the Sea of Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . Etymology The kibbutz is named after the Biblical town of Ur of the Chaldees, Ur Kasdim (Ur of the Chaldees) in Mesopotamia, where Abraham lived before he left for the land of Canaan, the future land of Israel (). Historical and archaeological sites Prehistory Mesolithic, including Late Mesolithic Natufian remains were excavated in Neve Ur, as well as Pre-Pottery Neolithic A stone and bone tools. Belvoir Fortress On the west side of Highway 90 and some 500 meters above, overlooking Neve Ur's hillside citrus groves, is the most completely preserved Kingdom of Jerusalem , Crusader fortress in Israel, the Belvoir Fortress (Israel), Belvoir Fortress. Its Hebrew name is Kokhav HaYarden (lit. ''Star of the Jordan''), for the nearby ancient Jewish vil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neve Eitan
Neve Eitan () is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. Located about east of Beit She'an and west of Maoz Haim, it is under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In , it had a population of . Etymology The name "Neve Eitan" is based on the original Hebrew text of a verse in Jeremiah (Jeremiah, 49:19), in which God curses Edom to sudden overthrow: "It shall be as when a lion comes up out of the jungle of the Jordan (''Ge'on HaYarden'': גְּאֹ֣ון הַיַּרְדֵּן֮) against a secure pasture (''Neve Eitan'': נְוֵ֣ה אֵיתָן֒)" ( JPS1985). History Neve Eitan was established on what was land belonging to the 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-Ghazzawiyya. The kibbutz was establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesilot
Mesilot () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Beit She'an Valley near the city of Beit She'an, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The gar'in, community was initially formed as an urban kibbutz in Givat Michael near Ness Ziona by aliyah, immigrants from History of Poland (1918–1939), Poland - who were members of the "BaMesilah" group from which the kibbutz takes its name -, and Kingdom of Bulgaria, Bulgaria - members of the "Bulgaria - Tel Hai group" -, with both groups belonging to the Hashomer Hatzair movement. The kibbutz itself was established on 22 December 1938, as a tower and stockade settlement. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the kibbutz was bombed by an Kingdom of Iraq, Iraqi airplane. One member of the kibbutz was killed in the bombing, and some other members were injured. On 16 April 1957 two guards of kibbutz Mesilot were killed by Palestinian fedayeen, Palestinian terrori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meirav
Meirav () is a religious kibbutz in northern Israel. Located on the downward slopes of Mount Gilboa around ten kilometres southwest of Beit She'an and less than 500 metres from the Green Line, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . Etymology Some people connect the name "Meirav" to the story of Saul's death in the Battle of Gilboa against the Philistines, which is believed to have occurred nearby, because Saul's oldest daughter was named Meirav (1 Samuel 14:50). However, the name can also be interpreted as meaning "a lot of water" and " the most of". History The kibbutz was founded initially as a Nahal settlement on Mount Malkishua in 1982, and is the newest religious kibbutz in the country. In 1987, it moved to its current location on Mount Avinadav. Meirav is located just south of another religious kibbutz, Ma'ale Gilboa. As they are both religious kibbutzim, it was decided that although they are located in the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maoz Haim
Maoz Haim () is a kibbutz in Israel. It is located adjacent to the Jordan River in the Beit She'an valley and falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . Aside from agriculture, the kibbutz also has a plastics factory, "Poliraz". History The kibbutz was established in 1937 by immigrants from Poland and Germany within the context of Tower and Stockade initiative. The kibbutz was named after Haim Shturman, a member of the Hagana, who was killed there in 1938. Maoz Haim was established on what was traditionally land belonging to the Palestinian village of Al-Ghazzawiyya. Landmarks Zakum nature reserve South of the kibbutz is a small (11 dunam) nature reserve of ''Balanites aegyptiaca'' trees, called the Hurshat Zakum (Maoz Haim) reserve, declared in 1968. ''Zakum'' is the Hebrew name of the tree. This is probably the northernmost occurrence of these trees in the world. Maoz Haim Synagogue A 3rd-century synagogue was discovered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
