Poria Illit or Poriya Illit (, lit. "Upper Poriya") 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

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. Located near the southwestern shore 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 ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Emek HaYarden Regional Council Emek HaYarden Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit 'Emeq HaYarden'', ''lit.'' Jordan Valley Regional Council) is a regional council comprising much of the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, the southern parts of its eastern shore, and the north ...

. In it had a population of .

History

Poria was first settled in 1912 and operated as a farm run by

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ish immigrants from the

Second Aliyah The Second Aliyah () was an aliyah (Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel) that took place between 1904 and 1914, during which approximately 35,000 Jews, mostly from Russia, with some from Yemen, immigrated into Ottoman Palestine. The Sec ...

. However, the original residents left after the outbreak of

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, and the land was abandoned until 1940. That year a group of settlers (''

kvutza A kvutza, kvutzah, kevutza or kevutzah ( "group") is a form of cooperative settlement that was founded in the Second Aliyah and developed in the Third Aliyah, its principles are based on the existence of a cooperative, communal, small and intima ...

'') affiliated with the socialist-Zionist Noar HaOved (Working Youth) movement, ''Alumot,'' settled in the area. They renovated the original basalt stone houses, naming the village Poria Alumot. In 1947 they were given a permanent site for their kibbutz at Bitania Illit, on a hill opposite Poria. The new kibbutz was named Alumot. Another kibbutz founded in its place was dissolved in 1949 and most of the residents moved to Alumot. Poria Illit was established in 1955. In 1991 it was officially recognized as distinct from

Poria – Neve Oved Poria – Neve Oved or Poriya – Neve Oved () is a community settlement in northern Israel. Located on the Poriya Ridge to the south-west of the Sea of Galilee near Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek HaYarden Regional Council.

. According to the Company for Location and Restitution of Holocaust Victims' Assets, there are 65 plots in Poria that were purchased by Jews who were later murdered in the

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. File:Poria Farm 1912.png, Poria farm, 1912 File:פוריה - מראה.-JNF045511.jpeg, Poria 1940 File:פוריה - חדר האוכל בקבוצת אלומות-JNF034077.jpeg, Poria 1946

Health care

The nearby Poriya Medical Center was founded in 1955, replacing the Schweitzer Memorial Hospital from Tiberias. The center incorporates a maternity hospital owned by the Scottish Church, previously also located in

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. In 2005, the center was renamed for Prof. Baruch Padeh, former director-general of the Ministry of Health, who headed the hospital in 1974–1976. Located on Poriya Ridge above Tiberias, it serves the population of Tiberias,

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, Jordan Valley,

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, among them many

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im and

moshav A moshav (, plural ', "settlement, village") is a type of Israeli village or town or Jewish settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 and 1 ...

im.Poriya Medical Center
/ref> In 2022 it was again rebranded as the

Tzafon Medical Center "Tzafon Medical Center named after Baruch Padeh" at Poriya,Tzafon Medical Center
at homepage. Retrieved 15 J ...

(''Northern Medical Center'').

Notable people

* Oron Shaul, soldier killed in Gaza and ransomed by Hamas

References

{{Authority control Community settlements Populated places established in 1912 Populated places established in 1940 Populated places established in 1955 Jewish villages in the Ottoman Empire Populated places in Northern District (Israel) 1912 establishments in the Ottoman Empire 1940 establishments in Mandatory Palestine 1955 establishments in Israel