Nof HaGalil

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Nof HaGalil
Coat of arms of Nof HaGalil
view on the city
view on the city
Basic data
hebrew : נוֹף הַגָּלִיל
arabic : نوف هچليل
State : IsraelIsrael Israel
District : North
Founded : 1957
Coordinates : 32 ° 43 '  N , 35 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 32 ° 43 '0 "  N , 35 ° 20' 0"  E
Height : 327  m
Area : 32.521  km²
 
Residents : 41,169 (as of: 2018)
Population density : 1,266 inhabitants per km²
 
Community code : 1061
Time zone : UTC + 2
Postal code : 17091-17880
 
Community type: city
Mayor : Ronen plot
Website :
Nof HaGalil (Israel)
Nof HaGalil
Nof HaGalil

Nof HaGalil ( Hebrew נוֹף הַגָּלִיל 'Prospect Galilee' , meaning 'Prospect Galilee' ) is a city in the northern district of Israel in the historical Galilee landscape with 41,169 inhabitants (2018). Until 2019 it was called Nazareth-Illit ( Hebrew נָצְרַת עִלִּית Natsrat ʿIllīt , German 'Ober-Nazareth' ). In contrast to the older sister city of Nazareth , in which mainly Arab Israelis live, Nof HaGalil, founded in 1957, is predominantly inhabited by Jews . Over half of the residents of the developing city are immigrants. The administration of the northern district is based in Nof HaGalil.

geography

Nof HaGalil is located above Nazareth and 38 kilometers from Haifa on the Mediterranean Sea and 24 kilometers from Tiberias on the Sea of ​​Galilee .

history

The city emerged in the 1950s, and in 1957 the first 300 settlers moved to today's city. Originally the city was called Kiryat Natzrat or Vered HaGalil , with official recognition in the 1960s it was named Nazareth-Illit . In 1961 the city had 4,291 inhabitants, in 1983 there were already 21,248 inhabitants. Menachem Ariav was mayor from 1977 to 2008 .

In 2014, 64.4% Jewish and 21.6% Arab residents lived in the city (14.4% Christians and 7.2% Muslims).

In May 2019, the city administration decided to change the city name to Nof HaGalil ('View of Galilee') to avoid confusion with the neighboring city, which was implemented after a survey among the city's residents in June.

Sports

The football club Hapoel Nof HaGalil plays in the second-class Leumit league and plays its home games in Etztadion Green (Hebrew איצטדיון גרין).

sons and daughters of the town

  • Dudu Aouate (* 1977), Israeli soccer player
  • Aya Korem (* 1980), Israeli pop and rock musician, singer and songwriter

Town twinning

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  2. ^ Dan Rabinowitz: Overlooking Nazareth: The Ethnography of Exclusion in Galilee. Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 9780521564953 . Pp. 28-30.
  3. ↑ Data from the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics ( Memento of April 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ NAZARETH ILLIT IS GETTING A NEW NAME: NOF HAGALIL , The Jerusalem Post , March 11, 2019, accessed on June 9, 2019.
  5. ↑ Interior Ministry Changes The Name Of Natzrat Illit (Upper Nazareth) , Yeshiva World News , June 27, 2019, accessed on July 26, 2019.
  6. ↑ NAZARETH ILLIT on the website of the city of Alba Iulia, accessed on June 9, 2019 (Romanian).
  7. ^ Helmut Braun: Chernivtsi: the history of a lost cultural metropolis. Ch. Links Verlag , 2013. ISBN 9783861533740 . P. 169.
  8. ^ Brochure about Győr , accessed on June 9, 2019.
  9. ↑ Bratski gradovi on the website of the city of Kikinda, accessed on June 9, 2019 (Serbian).
  10. ^ Nazareth-Illit on the website of the city of Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, accessed on June 9, 2019.
  11. ↑ Leverkusen: Nazareth-Illit , Rheinische Post , February 5, 2008, accessed on June 9, 2019.
  12. ↑ Les jumelages de la Ville de Saint-Etienne on the website of the city of Saint-Étienne, accessed on June 9, 2019 (French).
  13. ↑ Hermanamiento de Ciudades on the website of the city of San Miguel de Tucumán, accessed on June 9, 2019 (Spanish).