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Ta'anakh
The Ta'anakh region ( he, חבל תענך, ''Hevel Ta'anakh''), also known as Ta'anachim ( he, תענכים), is an area to the south of Israel's Jezreel Valley and east of the Wadi Ara region. The area is named after the biblical city (Joshua 17:11), located just across the Green Line in the northwest West Bank. In the 1950s, the area was settled by immigrants from Morocco, Tunisia, Kurdistan, and Poland. Most or all of this region is located in the Gilboa Regional Council. List of villages and community centers *Adirim *Avital *Barak * Dvora * Gadish * Meitav *Merkaz Hever *Merkaz Yael *Mlea * Nir Yafeh * Prazon *Ram-On Six villages out of this list got names from the biblical story of Dvora's battle (Judges, chap 4-5): Adirim, Barak, Dvora, (Merkaz) Hever, Prazon and (Merkaz) Yael. See also *Ti'inik Ti'inik, also transliterated Ti’innik ( ar, تعّنك), or Ta'anakh/Taanach ( he, תַּעְנַךְ), is a Palestinian village, located 13 km northwest of the city of Jen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meitav, Israel
Meitav ( he, מֵיטָב, ''lit.'' Utmost, best) is a moshav in north-eastern Israel. Located in the Ta'anakh region, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav was established in 1954 by immigrants from Kurdistan and Iraq on the land of the depopulated Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ... village of Al-Mazar. The third settlement to be founded in the Ta'anakh, it was initially named ''Ta'anakh Gimel'' (lit. ''Ta'anakh 3''). The name derives from Bereshit/Genesis 47,11: "Joseph ... gave them property in the ''best'' part of the land."Bitan, Hanna: 1948-1998: Fifty Years of 'Hityashvut': Atlas of Names of Settlements in Israel, Jerusalem 1999, Carta, p.39 References {{Authority cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avital
Avital ( he, אֲבִיטַל) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located ten kilometers south of Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. In its population was . History The village was founded in 1953 by immigrants from Iran, Turkey and Kurdistan as part of the Moshavim Movement. Avital is located on land that until 1933 belonged to the Palestinian village of Zir'in. The name is connected to King David David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ..., Avital was one of his wives (2 Samuel 3:4). But ''tal'' (eng. ''dew'') reminds also of David's lament in this area: "O mountains of Gilboa, may You have no dew" (2 Samuel 1:21).Bitan, Hanna: ''1948-1998: Fifty Years of 'Hityashvut': Atlas of Names of Settlements in Israel'', Jerusalem 1999, Carta, p. 1, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barak, Israel
Barak ( he, בָּרָק) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Ta'anakh region, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. As of it had a population of . History The moshav was founded in 1956 by Moroccan Jewish immigrants as part of the program to settle the Ta'anakh region. The name "Barak" is derivedCarta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p. 94, from the character Barak in the Book of Judges (f.e. chapter 4, vers 6), who defeated the enemy king Sisera near the location of the moshav. Notable residents * Joaquin Szuchman (born 1995), Israeli-Argentinian basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League Ligat HaAl ( he, ליגת העל, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional competition in Israeli club basketball, making it Israel's primary basketball c ... Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prazon
Prazon ( he, פְּרָזוֹן) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Ta'anakh region, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was founded in 1953 by immigrants to Israel from Kurdistan on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Mazar. Prazon was the second settlement in the Ta'anakh region after Avital. The name "Prazon" ("rural population") is taken from a verse in chapter 5, verse 7 of the Book of Judges The Book of Judges (, ') is the seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. In the narrative of the Hebrew Bible, it covers the time between the conquest described in the Book of Joshua and the establishment of a kingdom i ...: "The rural population in Israel ceased, until I, Deborah, arose." The story described in Judges took place in the surrounding region. The local football club, Hapoel Asi Gilboa, is based in Prazon. References {{Gilboa Regional C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nir Yafeh
Nir Yafe ( he, נִיר יָפֶה) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Ta'anakh region, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. In it had a population of . History It was founded in 1956 by immigrants to Israel from Tunisia ) , image_map = Tunisia location (orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = Location of Tunisia in northern Africa , image_map2 = , capital = Tunis , largest_city = capital , ... as part of the program to settle the Ta'anakh region. References {{Gilboa Regional Council Moshavim Populated places in Northern District (Israel) 1956 establishments in Israel Populated places established in 1956 Tunisian-Jewish culture in Israel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mlea
Mle'a ( he, מְלֵאָה, ''lit.'' whole yield) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Ta'anakh region, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. In it had a population of . History It was founded in 1956 by Jewish immigrants and refugees to Israel from Morocco in the program to settle the Ta'anakh region. However, by the end of 1957 most of the original settlers moved out, with Jewish immigrants from Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ... moving in to replace them. Most residents make a living from agriculture and raising livestock. The name ''Mle'a'' relates to agriculture and is taken from the Bible: "lest the whole yield of the seed and of the fruit is forfeited to the sanctuary." (Deuteronomy 22:9)Carta's Official Guide to Isr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merkaz Yael
Merkaz Yael () is a community settlement (Israel), community settlement in the Ta'anakh region in northern Israel. It belongs to the Gilboa Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was founded in 1960 as part of the program to inhabit the Ta'anakh region. It formed a regional center for the nearby communities Prazon, Avital, and Meitav, Israel, Meitav. The name "Merkaz Yael" was inspired by Yael (Judges 4:17), the hero of the battle against Sisera in the Book of Judges and wife of Hever the Kenite, after whom another community settlement nearby is named (Merkaz Hever). This battle took place in the nearby region. References {{Gilboa Regional Council Community settlements Populated places in Northern District (Israel) 1960 establishments in Israel Populated places established in 1960 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gadish
Gadish ( he, גָּדִישׁ) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Ta'anakh region, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav was founded in 1956 by immigrants to Israel from Morocco as part of the program to settle the Ta'anakh region. The name ''Gadish'' means "heaping", in the sense that a person has more than enough agricultural produce. On January 12, 2003, two Palestinian terrorists, armed with guns, who illegally infiltrated into Israel, Entered Gadish and killed Eli Biton, an Israeli citizen. They were then killed in an exchange of fire with an IDF IDF or idf may refer to: Defence forces * Irish Defence Forces * Israel Defense Forces *Iceland Defense Force, of the US Armed Forces, 1951-2006 * Indian Defence Force, a part-time force, 1917 Organizations * Israeli Diving Federation * Interac ... force. References {{Gilboa Regional Council Moshavim Populated places in Northern District (Isr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dvora, Israel
Devorah ( he, דְּבוֹרָה) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Ta'anakh region, near Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. As of it had a population of . History The village was founded in 1956 by immigrants from Morocco as part of a program to populate the Ta'anakh region. It is namedCarta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p. 136, after the prophet Devorah (Deborah) (Judges 4:4), who defeated Sisera in the Book of Judges The Book of Judges (, ') is the seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. In the narrative of the Hebrew Bible, it covers the time between the conquest described in the Book of Joshua and the establishment of a kingdom i .... References {{agri-stub Moshavim Populated places in Northern District (Israel) Populated places established in 1956 1956 establishments in Israel Moroccan-Jewish culture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ti'inik
Ti'inik, also transliterated Ti’innik ( ar, تعّنك), or Ta'anakh/Taanach ( he, תַּעְנַךְ), is a Palestinian village, located 13 km northwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,095 inhabitants in mid-year 2006. Antiquity Tell Ta'annek/Tel Ta'anach: Bronze Age to Abbasid period Just to the north of Ti'inik is a 40-metre-high mound which was the site of the biblical city of Taanach or Tanach ( he, תַּעֲנָךְ; grc, Θαναάχ), a Levitical city allocated to the Kohathites.Freedman et al., 2000, p1228 "Its identification with modern Tell Ta'annek (171214) is undisputed because of the continuity in the name and because of its location on the southern branch of the Via Maris, next to the pass of Megiddo." Excavations at the tell were carried out by Albert Glock mostly during the 1970s and 1980s. Twelve Akkadian cuneiform tablets were found here. Approxim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ta'anakh (biblical)
Ti'inik, also transliterated Ti’innik ( ar, تعّنك), or Ta'anakh/Taanach ( he, תַּעְנַךְ), is a Palestinian village, located 13 km northwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,095 inhabitants in mid-year 2006. Antiquity Tell Ta'annek/Tel Ta'anach: Bronze Age to Abbasid period Just to the north of Ti'inik is a 40-metre-high mound which was the site of the biblical city of Taanach or Tanach ( he, תַּעֲנָךְ; grc, Θαναάχ), a Levitical city allocated to the Kohathites.Freedman et al., 2000, p1228 "Its identification with modern Tell Ta'annek (171214) is undisputed because of the continuity in the name and because of its location on the southern branch of the Via Maris, next to the pass of Megiddo." Excavations at the tell were carried out by Albert Glock mostly during the 1970s and 1980s. Twelve Akkadian cuneiform tablets were found here. Approxima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ram-On
Ram-On () is a moshav ovdim in northern Israel. Located in the Ta'anakh region, south of the Jezreel Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Ram-On was founded in 1953 by children of families from moshavim around Israel. They originally settled in Nurit on the Gilboa mountain, but in 1961 the community moved from Gilboa mountain to the present-day location of Ram-On. The moshav is named after Ram On Paldi, one of the founders of the community, who was killed in southern Israel in 1957. Economy There is a factory in the moshav that manufactures thermoplastic A thermoplastic, or thermosoft plastic, is any plastic polymer material that becomes pliable or moldable at a certain elevated temperature and solidifies upon cooling. Most thermoplastics have a high molecular weight. The polymer chains associate ... materials. References {{Gilboa Regional Council Moshavim Gilboa Regional Council Populated places in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
