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Kiryat Shmona, Israel View overlooking the Hula Valley and the town of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel.

Kiryat Shmona

Israel
Also known as: Qiryat Shemona
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Kiryat Shmona, town, at the northwest of the Hula Valley, extreme northern Israel. The name Kiryat Shmona (“Town of the Eight”) commemorates the eight martyrs of nearby Tel Hai, a Jewish outpost that was attacked by a group of Arabs in 1920. The town, the only urban settlement of the valley, was founded in 1950 as an immigrants’ transit camp (maʿabara) on the site of the former Arab village of Khalasah. Metula, the northernmost community...

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