Livnim (, ''lit.'' Birches) is a

community settlement A community settlement (, ''Yishuv Kehilati'') is a type of town or village in Israel and in the West Bank. In an ordinary town, anyone may buy property, but in a community settlement, the village's residents are organized in a cooperative an ...

in northern

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

. Located northwest of the

Sea of Galilee The Sea of Galilee (, Judeo-Aramaic languages, Judeo-Aramaic: יַמּא דטבריא, גִּנֵּיסַר, ), also called Lake Tiberias, Genezareth Lake or Kinneret, is a freshwater lake in Israel. It is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth ...

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 places established in 1982 1982 establishments in Israel