Karmiel
Sign in to saveKarmiel () is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Established in 1964 as a development town, Karmiel is located in the Beit HaKerem Valley which divides upper and lower Galilee. The city is located south of the Acre–Safed road, from Safed and from Ma'alot-Tarshiha and from Acre. In Karmiel had a population of .
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Place details
- Locality
- כרמיאל
- Region
- מחוז הצפון
- Country
- ישראל
- Population
- 46,252
- Timezone
- Asia/Jerusalem
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Karmiel
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.translit_lang1
- Hebrew
- Settlement.translit_lang1_type1
- ISO 259
- Settlement.translit_lang1_info1
- Karmiˀel
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- Translit.
- Settlement.translit_lang1_info2
- Karmi'el
- Settlement.translit_lang1_type3
- Also spelled
- Settlement.translit_lang1_info3
- Carmiel (unofficial)
- Settlement.image_skyline
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- View of Karmiel
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Karmiel.svg
- Settlement.image_blank_emblem
Key dates
- Inception
- 1 January 1964
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Israel
- Located in
- Acre Subdistrict
- Population
- +45300
- Area
- +19.188
- Elevation
- +262
- Official website
- www.karmiel.muni.il
- Image
- Karmiel - Israel 2008.jpg
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- Demographics
- Integration of Russian-speakers
- Arab residents
- Local government
- Education
- Health care
- Culture
- Dance festival
- Beer festival
- Environmental protection
- Parks and gardens
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
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Karmiel () is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Established in 1964 as a development town, Karmiel is located in the Beit HaKerem Valley which divides upper and lower Galilee. The city is located south of the Acre–Safed road, from Safed and from Ma'alot-Tarshiha and from Acre. In Karmiel had a population of .
==History== thumb|The first housing units under construction, 1964 thumb|Galil Quarter In 1956, about of land in the area that is now Karmiel, owned by residents of the nearby Israeli Arab villages of Deir al-Asad, Bi'ina and Nahf, were declared "closed areas" by Israeli authorities. This area, near the main road between Acre and Safed, had been an important marble quarrying site. In 1961, the Israeli authorities expropriated the land to build Karmiel. The villagers were offered "equally good land" in the area, but when Moshe Sneh (Maki) and Yusef Khamis (Mapam) brought the case to the Knesset on behalf of the villagers, the Knesset established that there was no such land. According to the Haredi newspaper ''She'arim'', about (394 lots) were confiscated by a court order on 4 March 1963, at the request of the Israel Development Authority. However, the land was rocky, uninhabited and unfit for agriculture.