| Karmiel | | Hebrew | כַּרְמִיאֵל | | Founded in | 1964 | | Government | City | | Standard Hebrew | Karmiʼel | | Unofficially also spelled | Carmiel | | District | North | | Population | 43,500 (CBS end of 2004) | | Jurisdiction | 24,000 dunams (24 km²) | | Mayor | Adi Eldar | Coordinates: 32°55′20″N, 35°16′10″E Hebrew (עִבְרִית or עברית, ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ...
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Karmiel is a city in northern Israel. Established in 1964, Karmiel is located in the Beit HaKerem Valley, which divides the Upper and Lower Galilee. The city is located at the center of the main network of roads in the northern area. Karmiel is 35 km from Tiberias, 30 km from Safed, 22 km from Acre and 45 km from Haifa. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 641 KB) Karmiel, Israel. ...
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1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...
Galilee (Arabic al-jaleel الجليل, Hebrew hagalil הגליל), meaning circuit, is a large area overlapping with much of the North District of Israel. ...
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A Safed neighbourhood Safed (Standard Hebrew צְפַת , commonly spelled Tzfat; Arabic: صÙد ; KJV English Zephath) is a city in the North District in Israel. ...
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Karmiel is known as "The Heart of the Galilee" or alternatively "The Town of Coexistence" because of its efforts to be a truly multi-cultural community. During the period of large-scale Jewish immigration from the former Soviet Union to Israel in the early 1990s after the fall of the communism, Karmiel was one of the major centers of absorption of newcomers. Karmiel strives always to be on good terms and in communication with the Arab villages near by, Dir-Al-Assad, Majd-Al-Krum, Ba'ane, and Rama.
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In 1956, about 1275 acres belonging to the Israeli Arab villages Deir al Asad, Bi´na and Nahf were declared as "closed areas" by Israeli authorities. This area, situated by the main road between Acre and Safad, included some of the finest marble quarries in Israel. 5 years later, in 1961, the Israeli authorities could then expropriate the land (giving the reason that the land was not in use) for the building of Karmiel. A small cinder quarry A dimension stone quarry Coquina Quarry Sixty feet below sea level Conway, South Carolina A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted. ...
The expropriation met with strong resistance from the Arab villagers. The villagers first offered the government other land which was more suitable for building a town. The government refused, offering instead substituting with "equally good land" in the same area.
When Moshe Sneh (Communist party) and Yusef Khamis (Mapam) brought the case to the Knesset on behalf of the villagers, it turned out that there was no "equally good land" in the area.[1] Stamp with Snehs picture Moshe Sneh (born January 6, 1909 in Poland; died March 1, 1972) was an Israeli politician and one of the founders of Mapam, a left-wing group which later merged into the Israeli Communist Party. ...
The Communist Party of Israel (known as Maki, an acronym for Miflaga Komunistit Yisraelit) was formed in 1948 by the remnant of the Communist Party of Palestine within the borders of the new state of Israel. ...
Mapam - United Workers Party (in Hebrew: מפם - מפלגת פועלים מאוחדת Mifleget Poalim Meuhedet) was initially a Marxist-Zionist party. ...
The modern Knesset building, Israels parliament, in Jerusalem Though similar-sounding, Beit Knesset (בית ×›× ×¡×ª) literally means House of Assembly, and refers to a synagogue. ...
After the Knesset debate the villagers arranged a protest meeting in March 1962. But the military Governor of Galilea declared the villagers "closed areas" on the day of the protest, so nobody could contact the villagers and the meetings were therefore cancelled. The same happened with a protest meeting planned for January 1964.
After the first part of Karmiel was finished and Jews had started moving in, some local Arabs applied for permission to move into the town, but were denied. The Minister of Housing, Joseph Almogi, refused in a Knesset debate in 1964 to answer wether it was forbidden for Arabs to live in Karmiel. He only replied that "Karmiel was not build to solve the problems for the people in the surrounding area."[2] Yosef Almogi was the mayor of Haifa from 1974 — 1975. ...
Many Jewish Israelis were upset by what they saw as discrimination against Arabs. In February 1965 about 400 people walked from Tel Aviv to the "closed-off" areas around Karmiel, protesting against "discrimination of a group of our citizens". Representatives of the protesters went to a local police station, informing the police that they were staying in the area without permission. Nobody was arrested immediately, but as soon as things had quiet down the perceived leaders were arrested and put before military tribunal.[3] Tel-Aviv was founded on empty dunes north of the existing city of Jaffa. ...
In January/February 1972 an Israeli Arab entrepreneur offered to invest money in building industry in the town, industry where both Jews and Arabs could work. The offer divided the town, but those who opposed won, and the offer was rejected.[4]
During the 2006 conflict with Hezbollah, approximately 180[verification needed] Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon landed in the town of Karmiel, damaging structures, roads, and cars, but causing no casualties.[verification needed] Several men were killed in villages near Karmiel. Combatants Hezbollah Israel Commanders Hassan Nasrallah (Secretary General) Dan Halutz (CoS), Moshe Kaplinsky[6], Udi Adam (Regional) Strength 600-1,000 fighters 3,000-5,000 available 10,000 reservist [3] 30,000 ground troops (plus IAF & ISC) [7] Casualties Hezbollah militia: 74 dead confirmed by Hezbollah [4] 440 dead...
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As of 2006, the city encompasses an area of about 24,000 dunams (24 km²) with a population of more than 50,000 residents. According to the master plan, in the future Karmiel will have a population of approximately 120,000 residents. A dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum is a unit of area. ...
Karmiel is a Sister city to Pittsburgh and Denver. This article is about partnerships between towns distant from each other; see Twin cities for the different concept of physically neighbouring cities. ...
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References - ^ Knesset debate, 31 Jan. 1962, page 1126-30, cited in Jiryis
- ^ Knesset debate, 2 Des. 1964, page 486, cited in Jiryis
- ^ Maariv, 14 Feb., 1965, cited in Jiryis
- ^ Maariv, 30 Jan., 1972, Davar, 10. and 16. February 1972, cited in Jiryis
- Sabri Jiryis: The Arabs in Israel 1st American edition 1976 ISBN 0-85345-377-2 (updated from the 1966 ed.) With a foreword by Noam Chomsky. (First English edition; Beirut, Institute for Palestine Studies, 1968). Chapter 5.
[edit] Sabri Jiryis (Sabri Jaris, Sabri Geries, Sabri Jirais) (Arabic: صبري جريس) (born 1938) is a Palestinian writer and lawyer, a graduate of the Hebrew University law faculty. ...
Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...
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