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3 unusual facts about Upper Galilee


Emek Hahula High School

Emek Hahula Comprehensive High School is located in Kfar Blum in the Upper Galilee region of Israel.

Upper Galilee

Following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the Balfour Declaration in which the British Empire promised to create "A Jewish National Home" in Palestine, the Zionist Movement presented to the Versailles Peace Conference a document calling for including in the British Mandate of Palestine the entire territory up to the Litani river — with a view to this becoming eventually part of a future Jewish state.

Upper Galilee Mountains blind mole rat

The Upper Galilee Mountains blind mole rat (Spalax galili) is an extant species of subterranean rodent within the Spalacidae family, indigenous to Upper Galilee in northern Israel.


Ishmael ben Elisha ha-Kohen

The tomb of Ishmael ben Elisha ha-Kohen is located in the Druze village of Sajur in the Upper Galilee.

Yehuda Getz

Getz was born in Tunisia in 1924, and moved to Israel in 1949, living in the Kerem Ben Zimra moshav in Upper Galilee.


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Hanna Jubran

Hanna Jubran is a Palestinian sculptor, born in Jish, the upper Galilee.

Metzudat Koach

This fort commanded the main road to Upper Galilee and the routes to the Jewish settlements of Ramot Naftali and Manara.

Moshe Kelman

On 15 February 1948, Kelman led a force of 60 men which attacked the remote village Sa'sa', in the Upper Galilee.