Kabul (Israel)
Kabul (Hebrew כאבול Kavul, Arabic كابول, DMG Kābūl ) is the name of a purely Arab inhabited town and a biblical area southeast of the city of Acre in Israel, located in the North District. The city lies at an altitude of 40 to 160 meters above sea level. The etymology of the name is unclear, the name is both the word gewul ( "border" ), derived from a term meaning " fertile soil " or from the Hebrew word mekubbal. According to tradition, the residents of Kabul were so rich that they dressed with gold and silver.
General
Kabul has developed since the end of the term of office of a small village with about 100 buildings, with no education and less than 600 inhabitants, a town with 9400 inhabitants ( 2005) and a number of schools, health facilities and an agricultural research center on an area of just 7.15 km ². The only access road to Kabul goes from the west of the Road 70
History
Mention is the place probably already in the Bible as the border town of the territory of Asher, during the conquest under Joshua (Joshua 19:27 EU). Later Kabul was handed over by King Solomon to Hiram of Tyre, as thanks for the help at the temple. Flavius Josephus describes Kabul as a former border town of Ptolemäergebiets from which raids were undertaken to Galilee. This old Kabul went under due to internal dissensions. It is historically no clear evidence that today's Kabul is identical with the biblical and said with Flavius Josephus.
Al- Muqaddasi described in the 985 standing at the time under Abbasid rule Kabul as a place with vast sugar cane plantations and origin of the best sugar in the whole territory of Syria. In the period of the Arab Caliphates Kabul was one of the main locations of a Syrian military district.
In the Middle Ages Kabul became the Jewish pilgrimage city since, according to tradition, the graves of Reuben and Simeon are in Kabul, as well as that of the prophet Micah. During the Middle Ages more graves were added, among other things, by Judah ha -Levi, Abraham ibn Ezra, Solomon ibn Gabirol or.
Later, Kabul turned into a purely Arab inhabited place. In the Israeli War of Independence in 1948 Kabul was captured by the Sheva Brigade during Operation Dekel without a fight. Few residents fled Kabul, most of the inhabitants behaved the Israeli forces against neutral or friendly. Therefore Kabul remained as an Arab place exist, and was raised in 1974 in the state of a local association. Nevertheless, Kabul is called " ethnically cleansed " from the Palestinian side as well.