Ilaniya

Ilaniya () is a moshav in northern Israel. Also known as Sejera, after the adjacent Arab village al-Shajara, it was the first Jewish settlement in the Lower Galilee and played an important role in the Jewish settlement of the Galilee from its early years until the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council, and had a population of in .

==History== ===Ancient times=== Near Ilaniya, archaeologists discovered the remains of an ancient Jewish settlement. The Arab village of al-Shajarah was later built on top of the remains. The remains of an ancient public structure documented in the late 19th century contained an inscription in Greek and was originally identified as a church or a temple. However, the structure is now thought to have been an ancient synagogue. This conclusion is based on architectural fragments typical of synagogues, such as those found at Capernaum and Bar'am. In addition, a drainage canal near the ancient well was excavated in 1985, where a coin of King Herod Agrippa was discovered.