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Originally, the term "Upper Galilee" referred to a larger region, encompassing the mountainous regions of what is today northern Israel and southern Lebanon.The boundaries of this region were the Litani River in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Lower Galilee in the south (from which it is separated by the Beit HaKerem Valley), and the upper Jordan River and the Hula Valley in ...
A map of the Galilee region. Galilee (/ ˈ ɡ æ l ɪ l iː /; [1] Hebrew: הַגָּלִיל, romanized: hagGālīl; Latin: Galilaea; [2] Arabic: الجليل, romanized: al-Jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon consisting of two parts: the Upper Galilee (הגליל העליון, ha-Galil ha-Elyon; الجليل الأعلى, al-Jalīl al-Aʿlā) and the Lower ...
Articles related to the region of Upper Galilee.It originally referred to a mountainous area straddling what today is northern Israel and southern Lebanon.The boundaries of this area were the Litani River in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Lower Galilee in the south (from which it is separated by the Beit HaKerem Valley), and the upper Jordan River and the Hula Valley in the ...
Kedesh (alternate spellings: Qedesh, Cadesh, Cydessa) was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite settlement in Upper Galilee, mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. Its remains are located in Tel Kedesh , 3 km northeast of the modern Kibbutz Malkiya in Israel on the Israeli- Lebanese border.
Misgav Am (Hebrew: מִשְׂגַּב עָם, lit. 'Fortress of the People') is a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel.Located close to the border with Lebanon, facing the Lebanese town of Odaisseh, and near the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council.
Dafna (Hebrew: דַּפְנָה) is a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel. Located seven kilometres east of Kiryat Shmona and surrounded by three streams of the Dan River , it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council .
The term Korazim Plateau is used to define a geomorphological feature set between the Hula Basin and the Sea of Galilee. It is an elevated pressure-ridge within the Dead Sea Transform (DST) which acted as a barrier against the waters of the Mediterranean when these flooded the lower-lying part of the DST, between what are now the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea basins, during the Pliocene ...
Yir'on (Hebrew: יִרְאוֹן) is a kibbutz in the Galilee Panhandle in northern Israel. Located adjacent to the Lebanese border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 395. [1]