The Zevulun Valley or Zvulun Valley (, Emek Zvulun) is a fertile coastal territory in the North of

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, part of the

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along the

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."Zebulun Valley"
/ref> The length of the valley is 14 km, with its maximum width is up to 9 kilometers. Geologically it is not a

valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains and typically containing a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over ...

, but rather a plain, a continuation of the fault which produces a lowland pathway from the

Jordan River The Jordan River or River Jordan (, ''Nahr al-ʾUrdunn''; , ''Nəhar hayYardēn''), also known as ''Nahr Al-Sharieat'' (), is a endorheic river in the Levant that flows roughly north to south through the Sea of Galilee and drains to the Dead ...

to the Haifa Bay — which also includes the

Jezreel Valley The Jezreel Valley (from the ), or Marj Ibn Amir (), also known as the Valley of Megiddo, is a large fertile plain and inland valley in the Northern District (Israel), Northern District of Israel. It is bordered to the north by the highlands o ...

(which is not a valley in a traditional sense either), the

Harod Valley The Harod Valley () is a valley in the Northern District of Israel. It is the eastern part of the Jezreel Valley, a transitional zone that extends to the Beit She'an Valley. From the south it locked by Mount Gilboa, and by the Issachar Plate ...

and the

Beit She'an Valley The Beit She'an Valley ( or ) is a valley in Israel. The valley lies within the Beit She'an rift, part of the Afro-Syrian Rift (Jordan Rift Valley), which opens westwards to the Harod Valley. It is a middle part of the Jordan Valley. The valle ...

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/ref> The Zvulun Valley is bounded by the Naaman River to the North, the

Mount Carmel Mount Carmel (; ), also known in Arabic as Mount Mar Elias (; ), is a coastal mountain range in northern Israel stretching from the Mediterranean Sea towards the southeast. The range is a UNESCO biosphere reserve. A number of towns are situat ...

range to the South,

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/ Haifa Bay to the West, and the Alonim –

Shfar'am Shefa-Amr or Shefar'am (; ) is an Arab citizens of Israel, Arab city in the Northern District (Israel), Northern District of Israel. In it had a population of with a Sunni Islam, Sunni Muslim majority and large Arab Christians, Christian Arab an ...

hills of the

Lower Galilee The Lower Galilee (; ) is a region within the Northern District of Israel. The Lower Galilee is bordered by the Jezreel Valley to the south; the Upper Galilee to the north, from which it is separated by the Beit HaKerem Valley; the Jordan Rift ...

to the east. The

Kishon River The Kishon River (, ; , – ''the intermittent river''; alternative Arabic, ) is a river in Israel that flows into the Mediterranean Sea near the city of Haifa. Course The Kishon River is a perennial stream in Israel. Its furthest source is t ...

runs along the southern side of the area into the Haifa Bay. The name of the territory was chosen by a mistake, because according to the descriptions in the

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the Zevulun tribe were within the Jezreel Valley, while the land in question belonged to the

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. In the west of the valley are the cities of the

Krayot The Krayot or Qerayot (, "townships") (plural of ''Kirya'') are a cluster of four small cities and two neighbourhoods of Haifa founded in the 1930s on the outskirts of the city of Haifa, Israel, in the Haifa Bay area. The Krayot include Kiryat ...

cluster, the center is occupied by the settlements of the

Zevulun Regional Council Zevulun Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Zvulun'') is a regional council in the Haifa District of Israel. Founded in 1950, it had a population of 10,900 in 2006. The council borders Mateh Asher Regional Council to the north, Jezreel Valley ...

, in the east there are kibbutz

Yagur Yagur () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located on the northeastern slopes of Mount Carmel, about 9 km southeast of Haifa, it falls under the jurisdiction of Zevulun Regional Council. In it had a population of , making it one of the two ...

and

Kfar Hasidim Kfar Hasidim (), also known as Kfar Hasidim Alef to distinguish it from Kfar Hasidim Bet, is a moshav in northern Israel. Located near Kiryat Ata, it falls under the jurisdiction of Zevulun Regional Council. In it had a population of . History ...

(both under the jurisdiction of ZRC), Rechasim and some Arab settlements, such as Ibtin.

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