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Emek HaYarden Regional Council

place in Israel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ1967925 ↗
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Emek HaYarden Regional Council (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית עמק הירדן, Mo'atza Azorit 'Emeq HaYarden, lit. Jordan Valley Regional Council) is a regional council comprising much of the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, the southern parts of its eastern shore, and the northern part of the Jordan Valley all the way to Beit She'an in the south.

History

Emek HaYarden Regional Council was the first regional council in Israel, established in 1949.

Most of the communities are of the kibbutz type and are located on Highway 90, a north–south road which traverses the council's territory parallel to the Jordan River and along the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. The offices of the council are located between Degania Alef and the Tzemah Industrial Zone.

List of villages

This regional council provides various municipal services for the villages within its territory:

Voting Patterns

In the 2022 election, 73 percent of voters in the regional council voted for the parties of the center-left coalition led by Yair Lapid, while 27 percent voted for the parties of the right-wing coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu and 0.4 percent voted for the Arab parties.

See also

Important sites in the area, in alphabetical order (ignoring articles).

Capernaum, archaeological and Christian pilgrimage site

Hamat Gader, ancient and modern hot springs spa

Khirbet Minya, Umayyad qasr

Kinneret (archaeological site) at Tel Kinrot/Tell el-Oreimeh

Kinneret Cemetery (see Moshavat Kinneret#Cemetery)

Kinneret Farm or Kinneret Courtyard, Zionist experimental training farm (est.

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This entry incorporates text from “Emek HaYarden Regional Council” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.