Timrat

Place in Northern, Israel

32°42′12″N 35°13′30″E / 32.70333°N 35.22500°E / 32.70333; 35.22500CountryIsraelDistrictNorthernCouncilJezreel ValleyAffiliationHaMerkaz HaHakla'iFounded1981Founded byBnei HaEmek MovementPopulation

(2022)^[1]

1,291Websitewww.timrat.org.il

Timrat (Hebrew: תִּמְרַת, lit. 'Date') is a community settlement in northern Israel. Located in the Lower Galilee near Nahalal, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 1,291.^[1]

History

The village was established in 1981, though the site had previously been the location of kibbutz Timorim, which was established in 1948, but moved to the centre of the country in 1954 due to a shortage of land.^[2] Timorim had been established on the land of the depopulated Arab village of Ma'alul.^[3]^[4]

Archaeology

The village is situated near the historic tell Shimron, which is the northernmost point of a natural winterthorn population.^{[citation needed]}

A Hebrew inscription with the word Shabbat (שַׁבָּת) was discovered west of Timrat by a casual hiker. This finding suggests a potential marking of the Sabbath boundary for a nearby town.^[5]

Notable residents

Shir Levo Football player

References

^ ^a ^b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
^ Yuval Elʻazari, ed. (2005). Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. p. 555. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.
^ Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. p. xx. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
^ Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, p. 347, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
^ "CXXII. Timrat no. 7243", Volume 5/Part 2 Galilaea and Northern Regions: 6925-7818, De Gruyter, p. 1351, 2023-03-20, doi:10.1515/9783110715743-008, ISBN 978-3-11-071574-3, retrieved 2024-02-07