Kanaf (Hebrew: כָּנָף, literally “wing”) is a moshav in the Northern District of Israel , on the territory of the Golan Heights , 370 inhabitants of mainly secular sense live in the settlement. Moshav Kanaf was founded in 1991 by the Tnuat Hoshavim settlement movement. Included administratively in the regional council of the Golan [1] .
| Moshav | |
| Canaf | |
|---|---|
| כנף | |
 | |
| A country |  Israel |
| County | Northern |
| History and Geography | |
| Based | 1991 |
| Height above sea level | |
| Timezone | UTC + 2 , in summer UTC + 3 |
| Population | |
| Population | 459 people ( 2018 ) |
| Nationalities | Jews (100%) |
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Geography
Located at an altitude of 310 m, about 17 km northeast of the city of Tiberias, about 67 km east of Haifa and about 124 kilometers northeast of the center of Tel Aviv. Kanaf is located on a plateau in the southern Golan Heights, in places where the terrain begins on a steep slope in the direction of Lake Galilee . Access via road 869, which leads to the lake.
Population
According to the Central Bureau of Statistics of Israel , the population at the beginning of 2018 was 459 people [2] .
History
Kanaf lies on the Golan Heights, which were captured by the Israeli army in 1967 during the Six Day War and have since belonged to the Israelis. This village was founded in early 1985, when a group of people gathered in the neighboring village of El Ad to build a new core of settlers. In April 1985, their number was about 25 activists. For several years, these people lived in tent conditions in the village of El-Ad until the construction of the village of Kanaf until May 1991, when the first inhabitants settled in it. Thus, 1991 is the year of the creation of the official statistics of the settlement. [3] The mohawk economy is based on agriculture and tourism. The community participates in the work of beaches on the east coast of the Sea of Galilee. There are pre-school childcare facilities. Basic education is given to children in the neighboring village of Bnei Yehuda and higher education in the town of Katzrin . There are grocery stores in Canafa.
Attractions
Near the Kanaf moshavim, half a kilometer southeast on the west bank of the Kanaf River, are the remains of a Byzantine-era synagogue. The synagogue is called Dir Aziz [4] (דיר עזיז), it was first described by Lawrence Olyphant in 1885. In his report, he described a wall three meters high, but it was destroyed during the 1920 earthquake. The remains of the synagogue that have survived include a basalt floor, fragments that once comprised eight columns and three benches. Archaeologists have extracted hundreds of Byzantine coins from under the floor of the synagogue.
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Very close to the synagogue is a clean and cold spring. Now the water of this spring forms a small pool, which was built by the residents of the village of Kanaf in memory of a comrade who died in the Second Lebanon War . In the territory near the source you can put up tents and have picnics, and you can swim in the pool.
Notes
- ↑ List of localities in the Golan Regional Council Archival copy of September 30, 2013 on the Wayback Machine (Hebrew)
- ↑ Official data on Israeli settlements on 12/31/2017 (Hebrew) . Central Bureau of Statistics of Israel . Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ About the moshav Kanaf.
- ↑ Ancient synagogue Dir Aziz (Hebrew)
- ↑ Shapira, Ran . When Golan worshipers faced south (23 July 2003). Date of appeal September 21, 2012.