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Lower Galilee Regional Council
The Lower Galilee Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית הגליל התחתון, ''Mo'atza Azorit HaGalil HaTahton'') is a regional council in the Northern District of Israel. Lower Galilee Regional Council encompasses most of the settlements in the Lower Galilee with a population of 11,300 (2014), including three kibbutzim, ten moshavim and two community settlements, along with two youth villages located in its administrative territory. Kadoorie is the seat of Lower Galilee Regional Council and the council building is situated in the proximity to the Kadoorie Agricultural High School. The current Head of Lower Galilee Regional Council is Nitzan Peleg since 2019. List of settlements Lower Galilee Regional Council provides municipal services for the populations within its territory, who live in various types of communities including kibbutzim, moshavim, a moshava, community settlements and youth villages: Kibbutzim *Beit Keshet *Beit Rimon *Lavi Moshavim *Arbel * HaZ ... [...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] |
Lavi
Lavi ( he, לָבִיא, ''lit.'' Lion) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located 310 meters above sea level and 10 minutes from Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The kibbutz was founded in 1949 by young religious immigrants from the United Kingdom, who were from the British branch of Bnei Akiva, a religious Zionist youth movement. Many of the founders were among the 10,000 Jewish children who were taken to the United Kingdom from Germany as part of the 1938-1940 Kindertransport program following Kristallnacht. In its early years the Bachad movement raised money in the UK for the kibbutz as well as providing agricultural and educational training for Bnei Akiva and Bachad members in the UK on Thaxted Farm, Essex. Lavi was the first kibbutz where children lived with their parents, instead of in communal children's quarters where the children of other kibbutzim were housed and fed. Among the founders of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitzpe Netofa
Mitzpe Netofa ( he, מִצְפֵּה נְטוֹפָה) is a religious community settlement in northern Israel. Located adjacent to the Arab village Tur'an, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Lower Galilee Regional Council The Lower Galilee Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית הגליל התחתון, ''Mo'atza Azorit HaGalil HaTahton'') is a regional council in the Northern District of Israel. Lower Galilee Regional Council encompasses most of the settle .... In it had a population of . History The village was founded in 1981. References External linksMitzpe Netofa community website {{Israel-geo-stub Community settlements [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masad, Israel
Masad ( he, מַסָּד, ''lit.'' foundation) is a community settlement in northern Israel. Located to the west of the Sea of Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . Name Har Kotz: Mount Qotz (292 m), named for a priestly family that migrated to the Galilee from Jerusalem after the destruction of the Second Temple. (see ) See Hakkoz priestly family, who migrated to Eilabun. Masad: 'foundation', taken from the description of Salomon's palace in : "All these structures ... from foundation (''masad'') to eaves were made of high-grade-stone."Bitan, Hanna (1999): ''1948-1998: Fifty Years of 'Hityashvut': Atlas of Names of Settlements in Israel'' ityashvut= pioneering settlement Jerusalem, Carta, p.40, . History The village was founded as ''Har Kotz'' in 1983 and later named after a biblical verse, dealing with the building of Solomon's palace. Plans to build a quarry on Mount Kotz were rejected by the National Plan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giv'at Avni
Giv'at Avni ( he, גִּבְעַת אַבְנִי) is a community settlement in northern Israel. Located adjacent to the Sea of Galilee and Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was founded in 1991 by the Lower Galilee Regional Council The Lower Galilee Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית הגליל התחתון, ''Mo'atza Azorit HaGalil HaTahton'') is a regional council in the Northern District of Israel. Lower Galilee Regional Council encompasses most of the settl ..., It was named for Shlomo Avni, director-general of the Ministry of Construction and Housing. Lavi Forest, named for the Jewish community that flourished there during the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods, is located on the western edge of Givat Avni. Archaeology In an archaeological survey of the area, flint outcrops and flint extraction surfaces were discovered along with numerous flint items, knapping piles, flak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitzpa
Mitzpa ( he, מִצְפָּה) is a moshava in the Lower Galilee Regional Council, Israel. Located next to the Sea of Galilee and Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was founded in 1908 in the period of the Second Aliyah by the Jewish Colonization Association. Its name is Hebrew for "observatory", a name which was given to the village due to the location in which one has a good observation of the Sea of Galilee, Mount Arbel and Safed. Economy The main branches of the village are agriculture, entrepreneurship, tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring (other), touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tour (other), tours. Th ... (hospitality rooms) and others work outside of the village. Notable residents * Avraham Avigdorov (1929–2012), pre-state so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharona
Sharona ( he, שָׁרוֹנָה /saˈʁona/, but publicized in English as /ʃəˈɹoʊnə/) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located south-west of Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council. In , it had a population of . History Crusader period In the early 13th century, the geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi described Sârûniyyah as "a pass near Tiberias, Tabariyya, you go up it to reach Mount Tabor, At Tûr". Ottoman era Incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine (region), Palestine, Sharona appeared under the name of ''Saruniyya'' in the 1596 daftar, tax registers as being in the ''nahiya'' (subdistrict) of Tabariyya under the ''Sanjak, Liwa'' of Safad. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 17 households. They paid taxes on wheat, barley, occasional revenues, goats and beehives; a total of 3592 Akçe. A map from French campaign in Egypt and Syria, Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin showed the place, tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadmot Dvora
Shadmot Dvora ( he, שַׁדְמוֹת דְּבוֹרָה) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located south-west of Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . The village was established on 23 May 1939 by Jewish immigrants mostly from Germany. History The moshav was founded in the evening of the Jewish holiday Shavuot (23 May 1939) on the lands of the Arab village al-Shajara, which the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association had bought in the 1920s. Initially it was established as a tower and stockade settlement by part of the members from the cooperative moshav Moledet, most of which were immigrants from Germany, whom strove to live in a moshav ovdim. Initially the settlement was named "Omer" after the Nahal which established it, although later on the name of the village was changed to "Shadmot Dvora", after the name of Dorothy de Rothschild, the wife of James Armand de Rothschild who was the president of PICA (he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sde Ilan
Sde Ilan ( he, שְׂדֵה אִילָן) is a religious moshav in northern Israel. Located to the west of Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav was founded in 1949 with the assistance of Hapoel HaMizrachi and the Jewish Agency for Israel. Its name originates from the fifth tractate of the Mishnah. Sde Ilan was settled west of Kafr Sabt land, and east of Al-Shajara Al-Shajara ( ar, الشجرة) was a Palestinian Arab village depopulated by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War when its residents were forcefully evacutaed and became refugees. It was located 14 kilometers west of Tiberias on the main highw ... land.Khalidi, 1992, p. 541 References Moshavim Populated places in Northern District (Israel) 1949 establishments in Israel Populated places established in 1949 {{Israel-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kfar Zeitim
Kfar Zeitim ( he, כְּפַר זֵיתִים, ''lit.'' Village of Olives) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located adjacent to Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in 1950 by Jews, Jewish immigrants from Yemen on the land of the depopulated Palestinian people, Arab village of Hittin. The name of the village refers to the many olive groves in the area. Although some of the founders left the village later, over the years immigrants from Kurdistan have settled in the village. Education The village is home to The Kfar Zeitim Yeshiva, a Vocational High School and Youth Village for Haredi Judaism, Ultra-Orthodox (Chareidi) Jewish boys with learning difficulties, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and similar conditions. The yeshiva combines study of Talmud and other Jewish texts with vocational training in Computers, Carpentry, Electricity and Agriculture and Animal husb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kfar Kisch
Kfar Kisch ( he, כְּפַר קִישׁ) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located adjacent to Mount Tabor, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . History It was established in 1946 by Jewish soldiers demobilised from the British Army after World War II having served under Frederick Kisch, after whom the village was named. However political fractures led many of the founders to leave within the first year. A water shortage which forced the residents to transport water from the Tabor stream without proper equipment added to the problems, and until 1953 a steady stream of founding residents left the village. In that year conditions improved and Kfar Kisch began to absorb Jewish immigrants from Poland, Hungary, and the Soviet Union. Part of the village's land formerly belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Ma'dhar Ma'dhar was a Palestinian village in the Tiberias Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kfar Hittim
Kfar Hittim ( he, כְּפַר חִטִּים) is a moshav shitufi in northern Israel. Located on a hill 3 km west of Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council. It was Israel's first moshav shitufi,Moshav Shitufi, Tnu'at HaAvoda Moshav Shitufi Historical Dictionary of Israel and can also be considered the first Tower and Stockade settlement. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
