Cross Community Sports Partnership - Cluster 2

 

Daburiyya is an Arab village in Israel's North District and is home to approximately 8,500 residents, predominantly Muslim.  The village is located off of Highway 65 at the foot of Mount Tabor in the Lower Galilee, near the area where the prophetess Deborah judged.

Community Leader
Muhammad Yousef

Eilabun is an Arab village located in the Beit Netofa Valley and has a population of approximately 4,400 inhabitants.  The population is predominantly Christian.

Community Leader
Issam Zureik

Kfar Tavor is a village in the Lower Galilee region, at the foot of Mount Tabor with a population of 2,700.
The community was established in 1901 by pioneers of the First Aliya. Twenty-eight farmers settled in the area with the assistance of the philanthropist Baron Rothschild.  The settlement was originally known as Mas'ha, the name of the nearby Arab village but was renamed in 1903.

Community Leader
Amit Shaham

The Lower Galilee Regional Council encompasses over 9,000 people living in most of the settlements in the Lower Galilee region within the North District of Israel. The Lower Galilee reaches from Jezreel Valley in the south to the Upper Galilee (Beit HaKerem Valley) in the north.  Its eastern border is the Jordan River and the Sea of Galilee.  Its western border is the Zvulun Valley and Akko.
The Lower Galilee is called "Lower" since it is less mountainous than the Upper Galilee.  The peaks of the Lower Galilee raise up to 500 meters above sea level but much of the area around the Sea of Galilee is below sea level.

Community Leader
Ari Moskovich

Kfar Kama is a Circassian town located in the Lower Galilee with a population of 2,900 and is one of two Circassian villages in Israel.  There is archaeological evidence that the area was inhabited from the 6th century.  The current village was founded in 1876 by Circassians who were exiled from the Caucasus by the Russians to the Ottoman Empire due to the Russian-Circassian War.  A Center for Circassian Heritage is situated in the village and the village school teaches in a mixed environment of classes in Circassian, Hebrew, Arabic and English.

Community Leader
Murad Shvaig