Jisr az-Zarqa
Jisr az-Zarqa (Arabic: جِسْر الزَّرْقَاء, Hebrew: גִ'סְּר א-זַּרְקָא lit. brig ower the blue) is an Israeli Arab toun on Israel's northren Mediterranean coastal plain. Locatit juist north o Caesarea athin the Haifa Destrict, it achievit local cooncil status in 1963. Accordin tae the Central Bureau o Statistics (CBS) the toun haed a population o 11,100 residents at the end o 2005. the name Jisr az-Zarqa is a reference tae Taninim Stream, which is kent in Arabic as the "Blue Stream." The mayor is Az-Adin Amash.
Jisr az-Zarqa
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| Hebrew transcription(s) | |
| • ISO 259 | Ǧissr ˀa-Zárqaˀ |
 View of Jisr az-Zarqa | |
  Jisr az-Zarqa | |
| Coordinates: 32°32′N 34°54′E / 32.533°N 34.900°ECoordinates: 32°32′N 34°54′E / 32.533°N 34.900°E | |
| Destrict |  Haifa |
| Foondit | 1963 |
| Govrenment | |
| • Teep | Local cooncil |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.52 km2 (380 acres) |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 11,100 |
| • Density | 7,300/km2 (19,000/sq mi) |
| Name meanin | Bridge over the Blue |
History
eeditJisr az-Zarqa is the anerlie Arab toun in Israel locatit on the coast o the Mediterranean Sea (tho coastal touns such as Acre, Haifa, an Jaffa hae significant Arab populations). Ither Arab touns alang the coast wur depopulatit durin the 1948 Arab-Israeli War in Israeli militar affensives. Housomeivver, the intervention o Jews frae the neeborin touns o Zikhron Ya'akov an Binyamina, who relied on the population o Jisr az-Zarqa an nearbi Fureidis for agricultural labor, preventit the Israeli authorities frae dispersin the Arab population o the twa touns.[1]
In November 2002, the Caesarea Development Corporation constructit a lairge yirden embankment runnin the lenth o the 160 meter-wide corridor atween the veelage an neeboring Caesarea. The embankment wis biggit tae block oot noise frae the muezzin an celebratory gunfire,[2] and crack doun on frequent property thefts.[3] Residents o Jisr az-Zarqa claim that the naitional pairk in the north, the embankment tae the sooth, the heich-gate tae the east an the sea tae the wast, are keepin the toun frae expandin.[3]
The municipality o Jisr al Zarka is seekin tae promote environmental tourism tae the toun an its beachfront.[4]
Demografics
eeditThe indwallers o Jisr az-Zarqa are primarily Muslim. Thare hae been unverifeed reports o the existence o a sma commonty o idol worshipers or polytheists an aw, who are the stryndants o the auncient Canaanite an Philistine naitions.[5] The toun haes the lawest average monthly wage o ony locality in Israel at 3,800 New Israeli Sheqel (NIS), or a little ower 1,100 USD.[6] Accordin the Israel Central Bureau o Statistics, Jisr az-Zarqa haes the heichest heich schuil drop oot rates in the kintra at 12% an aw.[7][8]
A wumman frae the toun, Mariam Amash, applee'd for a new identity caird in Hadera in Februar 2008, uisin a birth document issued bi the Ottoman Empire that said she wis born in 1888. If verifee'd bi the Guinness Beuk o Warld Records, this wad hae made her the auldest livin body in the warld at 120.[9][10] Mariam passed awa on 22 Dizember 2012 at the age o 124.[11]
In 1998, the first multiple neer transplant in Israel teuk place atween a couple frae the veelage an a Jewish couple frae Jerusalem.[12]
See also
eeditReferences
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- ↑ "Sacred Landscape: CHAPTER FIVE". Archived frae the original on 4 September 2006. Retrieved 12 Februar 2013.
- ↑ "Caesarea". Archived frae the original on 8 October 2006. Retrieved 12 Februar 2013.
- ↑ a b Long
- ↑ Forgotten Arab Israeli Town Gets Chance to Change Eco-Image
- ↑ The lost Palestinian Jews Archived 2011-09-16 at the Wayback Machine- August 20, 2009
- ↑ "Settlers earn double the minimum wage and more than the average wage". translated by AAD from <http://www.hagada.org.il/hagada/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3819>. 2006 24 August. Archived frae the original on 2006-10-18. Retrieved 2013-02-12. Check date values in:
|date=(help); freemit airtin in|publisher=(help) - ↑ "Jisr al-Zarqa, J'lem, Eilat have highest high school dropout rates". Haaretz. 2006 8 September. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ "Equal opportunity? Not in our school". Haaretz. 2006 27 September. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ Patience, Martin (15 Februar 2008). "World's 'oldest' person in Israel". BBC News. BBC MMVII. Retrieved 12 Februar 2008.
- ↑ "120 year-old woman files for identity card". Ynetnews.com. 12 Februar 2008. Retrieved 12 Februar 2008.
- ↑ "Mariam Amash, possibly world's oldest person, dies age 124 (with video)". Ynetnews.com. 23 December 2012. Archived frae the original on 23 December 2012. Retrieved 12 Februar 2008.
- ↑ "An Israeli and an Arab showing the way". ArabicNews.com. 1998 13 May. Archived frae the original on 2006-02-15. Retrieved 2013-02-12. Check date values in:
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Further readin
eedit| Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Jisr az-Zarqa. |
- Benny Morris (1994): "1948 and after; Israel and the Palestinians" ISBN 0-19-827929-9. (Chapter 8, p. 257-289: The Case of Abu Ghosh and Beit Naqquba, Al Fureidis and Jisr Zarka in 1948 -or Why Four Villages Remained.)
- Kareem Sa‘id (2009): Jisr ez-Zarqa Final Report Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, No. 121