Gilboa Regional Council

Gilboa הגלבוע‎
Regional council(from 1949)
District	Northern
Government
• Head of Municipality	Ovad Nur
Area
• Total	252,100dunams(252.1 km2or 97.3 sq mi)
Population (2014)
• Total	28,300
• Density	110/km2(290/sq mi)
Website	Official website

Gilboa Regional Council(Hebrew:מועצה אזורית הגלבוע,Mo'atza Azorit (ha)Gilbo'a) is aregional councilin northernIsrael,located on the slopes of theGilboamountain range. There are more than 22,000 residents in 38 settlements as of 2007. The size of the area is about 250,000acres.

It is bordered on the north and west by theJezreel Valleyand theJezreel Valley Regional Council;on the east by theBeit She'an Valleyand theBeit She'an Valley Regional Council,and on the south by theWest Bank'sSamarianmountains.

History

The Gilboa mountains that border the Jezreel Valley from the south and the Beit She'an Valley from the west form a part of the "water dividing line" of the land of Israel. In 1921, 75 men fromJoseph Trumpeldor's work group built a tent camp nearMa'ayan Harod.Most of them were immigrants to Israel during theSecond Aliyah,and some arrived in theThird Aliyah.Some of them were members ofHashomer.The program was the "building up of the land by a generalcommuneof Israeli workers ". After two months, an additional group added to the eastern border of the Jezreel Valley and settled on the hill of Tel Hassan, which is nowTel Yosef.The other settlements were built later.

List of communities

The following settlements belong to the Gilboa Regional Council:

Kibbutzim

• Beit Alfa
• Beit HaShita
• Ein Harod (Ihud)
• Ein Harod (Meuhad)
• Geva
• Heftziba
• Tel Yosef
• Yizre'el

Moshavim

• Adirim
• Avital
• Barak
• Dvora
• Gadish
• Kfar Yehezkel
• Magen Shaul
• Meitav
• Mlea
• Moledet
• Nir Yafeh
• Prazon
• Ram-On
• Ramat Tzvi

Community settlements

• Gan Ner
• Gidona
• Merkaz Haver
• Merkaz Oman
• Merkaz Yael

Arab villages

• Muqeible
• Na'ura
• Sandala
• Tamra
• Taibe

Former villages

• Nurit

Economy

Agriculture

There are many branches ofagricultureperformed in the settlements of the council. The most widespread ones arecotton,wheat,greenhousesand other industrial plantings, flower plantings, field crops, fish pools, stables for cows, and chicken coops.

Industry

Thekibbutzimin the council have built manyfactories:canned food in Beit HaShita; metalworking in Beit Alfa, Moledet, Ein Harod and Beit Yosef; carpentry in Beit HaShita and Ein Harod; electronics in Yizre'el; nut cracking in Geva; plastics in Heftzibah and Ram On; printing and ornamentation in Moledet and Tel Yosef.

External links

• Official website(in Hebrew)