Migdal HaEmek
Migdal HaEmek
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| Hebrew transcription(s) | |
| • ISO 259 | Migdal ha ʕemq |
| • Also spelled | Migdal HaEmeq (official) |
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  Migdal HaEmek  Migdal HaEmek | |
| Coordinates: 32°40′17″N 35°14′26″E / 32.67139°N 35.24056°E | |
| Country |  Israel |
| District | Northern |
| Founded | 1952 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Eliyahu Barda |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7,637 dunams (7.637 km2 or 2.949 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[1] | |
| • Total | 27,088 |
| • Density | 3,500/km2 (9,200/sq mi) |
| Name meaning | Tower of the Valley |
Migdal HaEmek (Hebrew: מִגְדַּל הָעֵמֶק, lit. Tower of the Valley, also officially spelled Migdal HaEmeq, Arabic: مجدال هعيمق) is a city in the Northern District of Israel. In it had a population of 27,088.[1]
History
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al-Mujaydil
[edit]A Roman road ran nearby, with traces found close to the former village of al-Mujaydil. This may indicate that the region was opened to intensive settlement during the Roman period.[2]
Prior to 1953, in the area where Migdal HaEmek was to be established, stood the former Palestinian village of al-Mujaydil. The village had existed there since at least 1596 during the Ottoman period.[3][4][5] In 1945, al-Mujaydil's population was 1,900. In July 1948 during the Nakba, al-Mujaydil was completely destroyed[6] and its population ethnically cleansed[7] due to aerial bombing[8] during the operations conducted by the Golani Brigade.[9]
Migdal HaEmek (est. 1952)
[edit]In 1952, Iranian Jewish settlers established Migdal HaEmek on land seized from al-Mujaydil.[7]
In 1959, during the Wadi Salib riots, the "Union des Nords-africains led by David Ben Haroush, organised a large-scale procession walking towards the nice suburbs of Haifa creating little damages but a great fear within the population. This small incident was taken as an occasion to express the social malaise of the different Oriental communities in Israel and riots spread quickly to other parts of the country; mostly in towns with a high percentage of the population having North African extraction like in Tiberias, in Beer-Sheva, in Migdal HaEmek."[10]
Notable people
[edit]- Haim Dayan (born 1960), former politician
- Naama Lazimi (born 1986), member of the Knesset
- Rabbi Nachman Bulman, who founded an Orthodox community there
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 349. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 187
- ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 2019-04-20 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9.
- ^ Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5. Khalidi (1992), p.350
- ^ Masalha, Nur (2003). The politics of denial: Israel and the Palestinian refugee problem. The University of Michigan: Pluto Press. ISBN 0745321208.
- ^ a b "Welcome To al-Mujaydil - المجيدل (אל-מג'ידל)". Palestine Remembered.
- ^ Institute, For Defence Studies and Analyses (1987). News Review on West Asia, Volume 18. The University of Virginia: Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. ISBN 0745321208.
- ^ Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
- ^ Jeremy Allouche, The Oriental Communities in Israel, 1948-2003, [1], p.35
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