Ramot Naftali () is a

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 ...

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 in the

Upper Galilee The Upper Galilee (, ''HaGalil Ha'Elyon''; , ''Al Jaleel Al A'alaa'') is a geographical region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon. Part of the larger Galilee region, it is characterized by its higher elevations and mountainous terra ...

near the Lebanese border, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Mevo'ot HaHermon'') is a Regional Council in the Northern District (Israel), Northern District of Israel. It encompasses 13 moshavim and Community settlement (Israel), community settlements, f ...

. In it had a population of .

History

File:רמות נפתלי - ישוב של חיילים משוחררים-JNF036616.jpeg, Ramot Naftali 1945 File:רמות נפתלי - מקום ישוב לחיילים משוחררים.-JNF036614.jpeg, Ramot Naftali 1945 File:רמות נפתלי - ישוב של חיילים משוחררים-JNF036615.jpeg, Ramot Naftali 1945 File:רמות נפתלי - מראה החצר וחלק מהבניינים-JNF034383.jpeg, Ramot Naftali 1947 File:רמות נפתלי - מראה כללי, באופק ראש החרמון מכוסה שלג-JNF034388.jpeg, Ramot Naftali with Jebel Sheikh in distance File:Ramot Naftali ii.jpg, Ramot Naftali. April 1948 File:Ramot Naftali.jpg, Members of the

Yiftach Brigade The 11th Brigade (also known as the Yiftach Brigade) is a reserves unit in the Israel Defense Forces, composed mainly of fighters that completed their compulsory service in the Egoz Unit, Unit 621 – 'Egoz'. History In the 1948 Arab–Israeli ...

at Ramot Naftali. 1948 File:Ramot Naftali i.jpg, Israel Air Force plane above Ramot Naftali. 1948 After the

1948 Arab–Israeli War The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The civil war becam ...

, Ramot Naftali took over part of the land belonging to the newly 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 ...

villages of

Qadas Kedesh (alternate spellings: Qedesh, Cadesh, Cydessa) was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite settlement in Upper Galilee, mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. Its remains are located in Tel Kedesh, northeast of the modern Kibbut ...

and

Al-Nabi Yusha' Al-Nabi Yusha' () was a small Palestinian village in the Galilee situated 17 kilometers to the northeast of Safad, with an elevation of 375 meters above sea level. It became part of the Palestine Mandate under British control from 1923 unti ...

Nearby places

Near Ramot Naftali are the following communities: kibbutz

Malkia Malkia () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near the Blue Line (Lebanon), Lebanese border and Kiryat Shmona, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was establish ...

, kibbutz Yiftah, and moshav

Dishon Dishon () is a moshav in northern Israel. It is located near the border with Lebanon, within the Naftali Mountains, near the Dishon Stream. It falls under the jurisdiction of Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council. As of it had a population of . Hi ...

. The community is located next to

Metzudat Koach Metzudat Koach () (also Nabi Yusha fort) is a Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate police fort built during the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine. On the grounds of the fort are a memorial monument and a museum founded in 2014. The Metzudat ...

, a compound of the British Mandate, where 28 fighters were killed when it was captured during the War of Independence. File:רמות נפתלי - ישוב של חיילים משוחררים-JNF036615.jpeg, Ramot Naftali 1945 Image:RamotNaftali moshav.jpg, Inside of the moshav Ramot Naftali Image:KeremNaftali.jpg, Keren Naftali Image:KeremNaftali cattle.jpg, Cattle below Keren Naftali Image:KeremNaftali View2HulaNationalReserve.jpg, View of the Hula national reserve from Keren Naftali

References

External links

Ramot Naftali
Yigal Alon website {{Authority control Moshavim Populated places in Northern District (Israel) Populated places established in 1945 1945 establishments in Mandatory Palestine