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Kiryat Shmona
Kiryat Shmona (Hebrew: קריית שמונה, lit. 'City of the Eight') is a city in the Northern District of Israel on the western slopes of the Hula Valley near the Lebanese border.
In 2023 it had a population of 24,254. Located near the Israel–Lebanon border, Kiryat Shmona is Israel's northernmost city.
Kiryat Shmona was named after eight Jewish militiamen, commanded by Joseph Trumpeldor, who had fallen in the 1920 Battle of Tel Hai during the Franco-Syrian War adjacent to the new town. It had originally been named Kiryat Yosef for Trumpeldor before the name was changed to Kiryat Shmona in June 1950.
Kiryat Shmona was established in 1949 on the site of the depopulated Palestinian Arab village of Al-Khalisa, whose inhabitants had fled after Safed was taken by the Haganah during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and an attempt by the village to come to an agreement with the Jewish authorities was rejected.
Initially the empty houses of Al-Khalisa were used as a transit camp for immigrants who worked mainly in farming. The first residents were fourteen Yemenite Jews who arrived on July 18, 1949, and were followed by more Yemenis a month later. By July 1951, the population had grown to nearly 4,000. Relationships with nearby kibbutzim were often strained.
In 1953, Kiryat Shmona was declared a development town. In the first few years, growth was driven by the arrival of immigrants from Romania, India, Iraq, and Iran, as well as Kurdish immigrants from the Iraqi and Iranian areas of Kurdistan. However, later on, waves of immigrants from North Africa, in particular from Morocco, arrived. The city was built without a master plan, but rather neighborhood by neighborhood as waves of immigrants arrived.
Kiryat Shmona's location in close proximity to the Lebanese border makes it a target for rocket fire cross-border attacks.
On April 11, 1974, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC), sent three militants across the border from Lebanon to Kiryat Shmona. They killed eighteen residents of an apartment building, including many children, before being killed in an exchange of fire at the complex, which became known as the Kiryat Shmona massacre.
Kiryat Shmona
Kiryat Shmona (Hebrew: קריית שמונה, lit. 'City of the Eight') is a city in the Northern District of Israel on the western slopes of the Hula Valley near the Lebanese border.
In 2023 it had a population of 24,254. Located near the Israel–Lebanon border, Kiryat Shmona is Israel's northernmost city.
Kiryat Shmona was named after eight Jewish militiamen, commanded by Joseph Trumpeldor, who had fallen in the 1920 Battle of Tel Hai during the Franco-Syrian War adjacent to the new town. It had originally been named Kiryat Yosef for Trumpeldor before the name was changed to Kiryat Shmona in June 1950.
Kiryat Shmona was established in 1949 on the site of the depopulated Palestinian Arab village of Al-Khalisa, whose inhabitants had fled after Safed was taken by the Haganah during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and an attempt by the village to come to an agreement with the Jewish authorities was rejected.
Initially the empty houses of Al-Khalisa were used as a transit camp for immigrants who worked mainly in farming. The first residents were fourteen Yemenite Jews who arrived on July 18, 1949, and were followed by more Yemenis a month later. By July 1951, the population had grown to nearly 4,000. Relationships with nearby kibbutzim were often strained.
In 1953, Kiryat Shmona was declared a development town. In the first few years, growth was driven by the arrival of immigrants from Romania, India, Iraq, and Iran, as well as Kurdish immigrants from the Iraqi and Iranian areas of Kurdistan. However, later on, waves of immigrants from North Africa, in particular from Morocco, arrived. The city was built without a master plan, but rather neighborhood by neighborhood as waves of immigrants arrived.
Kiryat Shmona's location in close proximity to the Lebanese border makes it a target for rocket fire cross-border attacks.
On April 11, 1974, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC), sent three militants across the border from Lebanon to Kiryat Shmona. They killed eighteen residents of an apartment building, including many children, before being killed in an exchange of fire at the complex, which became known as the Kiryat Shmona massacre.
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