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Ta'anakh
The Ta'anakh region (, ''Hevel Ta'anakh''), also known as Ta'anachim (), 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 (), or Ta'anakh/Taanach (), is a Palestinian territories, Palestinian village, located 13 km northwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. The vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meitav, Israel
Meitav (, ''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 () 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 ... 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 control Iranian-Jew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ti'inik
Ti'inik, also transliterated Ti’innik (), or Ta'anakh/Taanach (), is a Palestinian territories, Palestinian village, located 13 km northwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. The village is located on the slopes of an Tell (archaeology), archaeological tell identified with the biblical city of Ta'anach, which has seen intermittent habitation spanning 5000 years. 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 Hebrew Bible, biblical city of Taanach or Tanach (; ), 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 Wadi Ara, pass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ta'anakh (biblical)
Ti'inik, also transliterated Ti’innik (), or Ta'anakh/Taanach (), is a Palestinian village, located 13 km northwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. The village is located on the slopes of an archaeological tell identified with the biblical city of Ta'anach, which has seen intermittent habitation spanning 5000 years. 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 (; ), 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." During Iron Age II, Ta'anach was a city in the Kingdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avital
Avital () 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 and Turkey 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") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damas ..., 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, See also * Ta'anakh district R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barak, Israel
Barak () 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 (, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is a professional basketball league in Israel and the highest level of basketball in the country. The league's name is abbreviated as either BSL ... References {{Autho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prazon
Prazon () 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 in the ...: "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 {{Authority control Moshavim Populated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mlea
Mle'a (, ''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 extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ... 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 Israel and Complete Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merkaz Yael
Merkaz Yael () is a 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. The name "Merkaz Yael" was inspired by Yael (Judges 4:17), the hero of the battle against 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 in the ... 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 {{Authority control Community settlements Populated places in Northern District (Israel) 1960 establishments in Isra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gadish
Gadish () 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 Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ... 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 force. References {{Authority control Moshavim Populated places in Northern District (Israel) 1956 establishments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dvora, Israel
Devorah () 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 in the .... References Moshavim Populated places in Northern District (Israel) Populated places established in 1956 1956 establishments in Israel Moroccan-Jewish culture in Israel {{agri-stub ... [...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 battle near Kerem Shalom in 1957.Hareouveni, Emanouel (1974). ''The Settlements of Israel and Their Archaeological sites'' (in Hebrew). Israel: Hakibbutz Hameuchad. p. 301 Economy There is a factory in the moshav that manufactures thermoplastic A thermoplastic, or thermosoftening 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 mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nir Yafeh
Nir Yafe () is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Ta'anakh region, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council Gilboa Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit (ha)Gilbo'a'') is a Regional council (Israel), regional council in northern Israel, located on the slopes of the Mount Gilboa, Gilboa mountain range. There are more than 22,000 residents in 38 settlements .... In it had a population of . 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] |
