Tuba-Zangariyye

Tuba Zangarija (also Tuba az- Zanghariya ) (Arabic طوبه زنغرية, Hebrew טוּבָּא - זַנְגָרִיָה ) is a Bedouin inhabited by the tribe of the ' Arab al - Heib community with the status of the local association in the Northern District of Israel with a population of 5,730.

Geography

Tuba Zangarija located at 250 meters above sea level near the Jordan River in the Chulaebene. It is located about 8.5 km east of Safed near Rosh Pina and the Kibbutz Kfar HaNassi. The Golan Heights begin two kilometers east. The municipality consists of the parts A Tuba ( Tuba sources ) and Al - Zanghariyya and covers an area of ​​2,962 dunams, about 2 square kilometers. Prior to the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, the area of Al- Zanghariyya alone had an area of ​​27,918 dunams.

History

The Bedouin tribes of the 'Arab al- Zanghariyya and ' Arab al- Heib lived until 1903 with your stoves in tents on the tuba well beziehungszweise in stone houses. The Bedouins of the tribe of Al- Heib for a long time had good relations with the Jewish settlers who settled in the outskirts of the Chulaebene since the 1880s. During the Arab Revolt of the years 1936 to 1939 they helped the Jewish settlers in their defense efforts. In 1948 she formed an alliance with the Haganah in defense of Upper Galilee against the invading Syrian forces. Some of them formed a special unit with the Palmach, the Pal- Heib.

On May 4, 1948 before the Declaration of Independence of Israel, the two Bedouin settlements were attacked and captured as part of Operation Yiftach by the operation Matateh (Operation broom ). A portion of the inhabitants of Al- Zanghariyya fled into the neighborhood tuba, but most of them went to Syria. The abandoned buildings were blown up on 17 June 1948. Today there are in this area of the kibbutz Elifelet and a private farm called Kare Desche.

Until the 1960s, the remaining Bedouins in Tuba lived in their tents built of reeds, but today is their community a village with stone houses, mosques, roads, water and electricity supply. 1988 Tuba Zangarija a local association under Israeli municipal law.

Stop 2011

On the night of October 3, 2011 was the mosque of Tuba Zangarija a fire stop, which is counted to the price -tag attacks because of the slogans on the walls of the building. He is revenge (the price ) for a terrorist attack in Hebron from September 2011 to be in which two Israelis were killed. Official Israel was shocked because some of the residents of the community are part of the Israeli Defence Forces ( IDF). President Shimon Peres and the Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazim and Sephardim two Jewish communities, Yona Metzger and Shlomo Amar, drove on the day after the attack to the point of action to bring their regret about the incident expressed.

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