Ge'alya

Ge'alya גְּאַלְיָה‎
Ge'alya
Coordinates: 31°53′6″N 34°45′58″E
Country	Israel
District	Central
Council	Gan Raveh
Affiliation	Moshavim Movement
Founded	1948
Founded by	Bulgarian Jews
Population  (2022)[1]	924
Website	www.gealya.co.il

Ge'alya, sometimes written Galia (Hebrew: גְּאַלְיָה), is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain and covering 2,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gan Raveh Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 924.^[1]

History

The moshav was founded in 1948 by immigrants from Bulgaria, on land belonging to the Palestinian village of Qubayba, which was depopulated in 1948.^[2]

It is located south of the ancient site of Tel Shalaf, where Iron Age artifacts have been found.^[3] Tel Shalaf, is identified by some but not all scholars with the city of Eltekeh.^[4] Eltekeh appeared in Sennacherib's Annals as the site of a battle between the Assyrians and Egyptians in 701 BCE, and in the Bible as a Levitical city within the first Dan tribal area (Joshua 19:44 and Joshua 21:23).^[4][5]

References

1. "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
2. Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 408. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
3. Yavne, Survey Map Israel Antiquities Authority
4. W. R. Gallagher (1999). Sennacherib's Campaign to Judah. Leifen: Brill. pp. 123–124.
5. Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p.163-164, ISBN 965-220-186-3 (English)

External links

• Official website (in Hebrew)