Arbel
Sign in to saveArbel () is a moshav in northern Israel. Located beside Mount Arbel next to the Sea of Galilee near Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council. In its population was .
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine "Arbel" or "Arbela"
- Early Muslim "Irbil"
- Ottoman Empire
- State of Israel
- Ancient synagogue
- Notable residents
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Arbel () is a moshav in northern Israel. Located beside Mount Arbel next to the Sea of Galilee near Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council. In its population was .
Arbel was established in 1949 by demobilized soldiers on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Hittin. It was initially a moshav shitufi, but became a moshav ovdim in 1959.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arbel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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