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Central Arava Regional Council
The Central Arava Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית הערבה התיכונה) is a Regional Council in the South District of Israel. It encompasses eight settlements near the eastern border of Israel, south of the Dead Sea. All settlements are located near Route 90, which is the longest north–south road in Israel. Settlements in the council The Central Arava Regional Council comprises five moshavim and three community settlements: Moshavim * Ein Yahav (עין יהב) * Hatzeva (חצבה) * Idan (עידן) * Paran (פארן) * Tzofar (צופר) Community settlements *Ir Ovot (עיר אובות) * Sapir (ספיר) * Tzukim Tzukim ( he, צוּקִים, lit. ''Cliffs''), also Zukim, is a community settlement in southern Israel. Located in the Arava, 8 km south of Tzofar, it falls under jurisdiction of the Central Arava Regional Council. In it had a population o ... (צוקים) External links Central Arava regional councîl (www.arava.co.il) {{Author ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Arava Regional Council
The Central Arava Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית הערבה התיכונה) is a Regional Council in the South District of Israel. It encompasses eight settlements near the eastern border of Israel, south of the Dead Sea. All settlements are located near Route 90, which is the longest north–south road in Israel. Settlements in the council The Central Arava Regional Council comprises five moshavim and three community settlements: Moshavim * Ein Yahav (עין יהב) * Hatzeva (חצבה) * Idan (עידן) * Paran (פארן) * Tzofar (צופר) Community settlements *Ir Ovot (עיר אובות) * Sapir (ספיר) * Tzukim Tzukim ( he, צוּקִים, lit. ''Cliffs''), also Zukim, is a community settlement in southern Israel. Located in the Arava, 8 km south of Tzofar, it falls under jurisdiction of the Central Arava Regional Council. In it had a population o ... (צוקים) External links Central Arava regional councîl (www.arava.co.il) {{Author ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Council (Israel)
Regional councils (plural: he, מוֹעָצוֹת אֵזוֹרִיּוֹת, ''Mo'atzot Ezoriyot''https://milog.co.il/מוֹעָצוֹת_אֵזוֹרִיּוֹת / singular: he, מוֹעָצָה אֵזוֹרִית, ''Mo'atza Ezorit'') are one of the three types of Israel's local government entities, with the other two being Municipality (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 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatzeva
Hatzeva ( he, חֲצֵבָה) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Arabah, Arava, 12 km north of Ein Yahav, it falls under the jurisdiction of Central Arava Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Antiquity Hatzeva was a fort and caravanserai established beside Ein Hatzeva, a rare water source in the region. It is identified with the biblical site Tamar (1 Kings 9:17-18). According to the Bible, it was a Judean fort, but Edomite idols were also discovered there, now on display at the Israel Museum. In the Nabatean period, Hatzeva was a caravanserai along the northern path of the incense route. Later it became a Roman fort, part of the Roman southern security zone (The ‘Limes’). The Roman Scorpion Ascent that connects Hazteva and Mamshit is believed to date from that time. The site was excavated in the 1980s and yielded finds in six stratified layers. State of Israel Hatzeva was founded in 1965 as a Nahal settlement near the Arava Road and beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tzukim
Tzukim ( he, צוּקִים, lit. ''Cliffs''), also Zukim, is a community settlement in southern Israel. Located in the Arava, 8 km south of Tzofar, it falls under jurisdiction of the Central Arava Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Tzukim was founded in 2001 on land vacated by the Bildad army camp, which was founded in 1983 and named after Bildad, one of the "friends" of Biblical Job. In the Negev there are also kibbutzim with the names of the two other "friends": nearby Tzofar and Elifaz in the southern Arava. Bildad also served as a transit point for new settlement in the Arabah The Arabah, Araba or Aravah ( he, הָעֲרָבָה, ''hāʿĂrāḇā''; ar, وادي عربة, ''Wādī ʿAraba''; lit. "desolate and dry area") is a loosely defined geographic area south of the Dead Sea basin, which forms part of the borde ... valley. The first settlement phase of Tzukim was supposed to begin in 2003, with fifty families. The first settlers were peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sapir, Israel
Sapir ( he, סַפִּיר) is a community settlement in southern Israel. Located near Route 90, it falls under the jurisdiction of Central Arava Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in 1979 and is named after Pinchas Sapir Pinchas Sapir ( he, פנחס ספיר, born Pinchas Kozlowski 15 October 1906 – 12 August 1975) was an Israeli politician during the first three decades following the country's founding. He held two important ministerial posts, Minister of Fin .... It was planned by the architect Gershon Tzippor and was founded primarily to provide housing for municipal workers of the regional council. As time passed, its nature changed. As of 2006 it houses mostly people of various professions, as opposed to other settlements of the Aravah, which mostly do agriculture. Near the community there is a nature park and an airstrip. References {{Central Arava Regional Council Central Arava Regional Council Community settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ir Ovot
Ir Ovot ( he, עִיר אֹבֹת ,עיר אובות, ''Ir Obot''; ''lit.'' City of Oboth) is a small village in southern Israel. Located in the northeastern Arabah, it falls under the jurisdiction of Central Arava Regional Council. It operated as a kibbutz from 1967 until the 1980s. In it had a population of . It is the site of an extensive archaeological complex known as Tamar Fortress or ''Hatzevah Fortress'' ( he, מצודת חצבה) which dates to the 10th century BCE (United Monarchy/First Temple period). Geography Ir Ovot is located south of the Dead Sea and southeast of Dimona in the Arabah valley, an arid plain located below the Negev plateau and south of the Jordan Rift Valley within the larger Great Rift Valley. The settlement abuts the Ein Hatzeva bloc of agricultural villages on the opposite side of Highway 90 near the Jordanian border, and is within the boundaries of the Tamar Regional Council. The community is located close to the biblical site of Tamar, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tzofar
Tzofar ( he, צוֹפָר) is a moshav in southern Israel. Etymology The name derives from the nearby Tzofar stream and is also referring to one of the "friends" of Job (f.e. Job 2:11). In the Negev there are also kibbutzim with the names of the two other "friends"; nearby former Mahane Bildad, since 2001 named Tzukim, and Elifaz in the southern Arava. History The settlement was founded as a Nahal settlement in 1968 where Bildad Camp is currently located. In 1975 it was established as a moshav by city residents and native moshavniks and relocated several kilometers north to reach is present-day location. After the peace agreement between Israel and Jordan, Israel transferred a portion of the land area in Tzofar to Jordanian control, known as Al Ghamr, but Israel rented the land so that Israeli workers from the moshav could continue to cultivate it. The 25-year renewable lease would end in 2019. The Jordanian government announced its intention to end the lease. The treaty give ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paran, Israel
Paran ( he, פָּארָן) is a small moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Arabah valley around 100 km north of Eilat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Central Arava Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav is named after a passage in the Book of Genesis (21:20-21):Bitan, Hanna: 1948-1998: Fifty Years of 'Hityashvut': Atlas of Names of Settlements in Israel, Jerusalem 1999, Carta, p.56, "And God was with the lad, and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran The Desert of Paran or Wilderness of Paran (also sometimes spelled Pharan or Faran; he, מִדְבַּר פָּארָן, ''Midbar Pa'ran''), is a location mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. It is one of the places where the Israelites spent part of th .... And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt." Economy Each of the family farm units covers 50 dunams (50,000 m²). The main crops are high quality peppers and flowers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idan (moshav)
Idan ( he, עִדָּן) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Arabah valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Central Arava Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Moshav Idan was founded in 1980 by immigrants from Canada, the United States, and South Africa, who had organized in 1976. It takes its name from the nearby Idan Stream, which was in turn named after the Arab name for the stream, Wadi al-Aidan. In 2005, it had a population of 150. After the Israel–Jordan peace treaty, some of the lands of Idan were handed over to Jordan. Peace road Between Idan and Hatzeva is a service road, called Peace Road. The Jewish National Fund Jewish National Fund ( he, קֶרֶן קַיֶּימֶת לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, ''Keren Kayemet LeYisrael'', previously , ''Ha Fund HaLeumi'') was founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Syria (later Mandatory Palestine, and subseq ... paved the Peace Route, along the border between Israel and Jordan, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ein Yahav
Ein Yahav ( he, עֵין יַהַב) is a moshav in Israel. Located 100 m below sea level in the northern Arava, 12 km south of Hatzeva and between the Yahav and Nikrot streams, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Central Arava Regional Council. In it has a population of . Etymology Moshav Ein Yahav is named after the Yahav Spring, located southwest of the moshav. History In 1950, an agricultural experimentation station was set up at Ein Yahav by members of Shahal, a movement to settle arid areas of Israel. The station was abandoned and on 7 October 1953, Israel Defense Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the Israel, State of Israel. It consists of three servic ... veterans settled there. In 1959 a Nahal settlement was established 5 km to the east of the original. In 1962 it was civilianized by senio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Israel
There are six main administrative districts of Israel, known in Hebrew as ''mekhozot'' (; singular: ''makhoz'' ) and Arabic as ''mintaqah'' and fifteen sub-districts known as ''nafot'' (; singular: ''nafa'' ). Each sub-district is further divided into natural regions,Key to the Codes in the Maps - Districts, Sub-Districts and Natural Regions 2018 Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, 2021 , |
Community Settlement (Israel)
A community settlement ( he, יישוב קהילתי, ''Yishuv Kehilati'') is a type of village in Israel and the West Bank. While in an ordinary town anyone may buy property, in a community settlement the village's residents are organized in a cooperative. They have the power to approve or veto a sale of a house or a business to any buyer. Residents of a community settlement may have a particular shared ideology, religious perspective, or desired lifestyle which they wish to perpetuate by accepting only like-minded individuals. For example, a family-oriented community settlement that wishes to avoid becoming a retirement community may choose to accept only young married couples as new residents. As distinct from the traditional Israeli development village, typified by the kibbutz and moshav, the community settlement emerged in the 1970s as a non-political movement for new urban settlements in Israel.Aharon Kellerman''Society and Settlement: Jewish Land of Israel in the Twenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
