Wadi Ara or Nahal Iron (Arabic: وادي عارة, Hebrew: נחל עירון, ואדי עארה), refers to an area within Israel that is mostly populated by Israeli Arabs. It is located northwest of the Green Line and is mostly within the Israel's Haifa District. Originally captured by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, it was ceded to Israel in exchange for territory south of Hebron in the 1949 Israel-Jordan armistice. The area has come under political attention as some Israeli politicians such as Avigdor Lieberman of the Yisrael Beiteinu party have brought up transferring the area to the sovereignty and administration of the Palestinian Authority for a future Palestinian State. In return the Palestinian Authority is to transfer specific large Israeli settlement "blocs" within the West Bank east of the Green Line to the Israel. According to politicians who support this land-swap, Israel would ensure and secure itself as primarily Jewish state. However many politicians within the Knesset disagree and believe it would only decrease Israel's Arab population by a mere 10%, while most Israeli Arabs object to trading Israeli citizenship for Palestinian citizenship.[1] Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ... “Hebrew” redirects here. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The term Green Line is often used to refer to the 1949 Armistice lines established between Israel and its opponents (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt) at the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. ... Haifa District surrounding the city of Haifa in Israel, is one of six districts and includes the following towns and cities: Baqa al-Gharbiyye באקה אל-גרביה Hadera חדרה Haifa חיפה Nesher נשר Or Aqiva אור עקיבא Qiryat Atta קריית אתא Qiryat Bialik קריית ביאליק Qiryat Motzkin קריית מוצקין Qiryat Yam קריית ים Tirat Karmel טירת הכרמל Umm al-Fahm אום אל-פאחם Zikhron Yaaqov זכרון יעקב See also Districts of Israel... Combatants  Israel Egypt, Syria, Transjordan,  Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Holy War Army, Arab Liberation Army Commanders Yaakov Dori, Yigael Yadin Glubb Pasha, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Hasan Salama, Fawzi Al-Qawuqji Strength  Israel: 29,677 initially rising to 115,000 by March 1949 Egypt: 10,000 initially rising... The Cave of the Patriarchs, also site of the Ibrahimi Mosque. ... The 1949 Armistice Agreements are a set of agreements signed during 1949 between Israel and its neighbors Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. ... Politics of Israel takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Israel is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. ... Avigdor Lieberman (Hebrew: ), also Liberman (born on 5 June 1958 in Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union) is an Israeli politician and leader of the Yisrael Beytenu party. ... Yisrael Beytenu ( Hebrew: Israel Our Home) is a right-wing political party in Israel with support from Jewish Russian immigrants to Israel who came from the lands of the former Soviet Union. ... // The Lieberman Plan is named after Avigdor Lieberman, the leader of the Israeli political party Yisrael Beytenu. ... The West Bank The Palestinian National Authority (PNA or PA) is a semi-autonomous state institution nominally governing the bulk of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (which it calls the Palestinian Territories). It was established as a part of Oslo accords between the PLO and Israel. ... It has been suggested that State of Palestine be merged into this article or section. ... Map of Israeli settlements (magenta) in the West Bank. ... The book Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State, 1896) by Theodor Herzl. ... The modern Knesset building, Israels parliament, in Jerusalem Though similar-sounding, Beit Knesset (בית כנסת) literally means House of Assembly, and refers to a synagogue. ...

Localities in Wadi Ara

Arab

• Ar'ara
• al-Arian
• Baqa-Jatt
• Basma
• Ein Ibrahim
• Kafr Qara
• Ibtin
• Meiser
• Musmus
• Salim
• Umm al-Fahm
• Umm al-Qutuf
• Yamma

Arara (Arabic: , Hebrew: ) is an Israeli Arab local council in the Wadi Ara region in the Haifa District. ... Basma or West Bartaa (Arabic:بسم)is an Israeli-Arab local council located on the Green Line adjacent to the Palestinian town of Bartaa located in the Seam Zone. ... Umm al-Fahm (Arabic أم الفحم, Hebrew אום אל-פחם) is a city in the Haifa District in Israel. ...

Jewish

• Ein Iron
• Gan HaShomron
• Ma'ale Iron
• Magal
• Maor
• Mei Ami
• Metzer

Gan HaShomron (Hebrew גן השומרון) is a moshav located north-east of Hadera, on the Afula Highway. ... Metzer is a kibbutz in Israel. ...

See Also

• Arab citizens of Israel
• Menashe Regional Council
• Wadi Ara (village)