Ein Kiniya ( Hebrew עֵין קֻנִיֶּה , Arabic. عين قنية , in official English transcript: Ein Qiniyye) is a Druze village in the Northern District of Israel , in the Golan Heights . Administratively is the local council.
| Local council | |
| Ein kinia | |
|---|---|
| Heb. עין קנייא | |
| A country |  Israel |
| County | Northern |
| History and Geography | |
| First mention | XIV century |
| Local council with | 1982 |
| Square | |
| Height above sea level | 750 [1] m |
| Timezone | UTC + 2 , in summer UTC + 3 |
| Population | |
| Population | 2,033 people ( 2018 ) |
| Nationalities | Druze (98.8%), Arabs (1.2%) |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Postcode | 12432 |
| ain-kynia.com (ar.) | |
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Geography
Ein Kiniya is located at an altitude of 750 m in the northeast of the Golan Heights, on the southern slope of the Hermon massif, 157 kilometers northeast of the center of Tel Aviv and about 83 km northeast of the city of Haifa.
Ein Kiniya is located in the northern part of the Golan Heights, in which an ethnically mixed population lives. The main composition is represented by Arabic-speaking Druze, who also live in more densely populated municipalities: Bukata , Masaada , Majdal Shams . There are several Jewish villages around: 2 km north-east of the village of Ein Kiniya is Nimrod moshav, and 2 km to the north lies Neve Ativ moshav. Access to Ein Kinia is via highway number 99 on the south side of the village, and via road number 989, which runs along the village on the north side.
History
Ein Kiniya is located 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. Syrian Arabs fled during the Israeli war in 1967, with the exception of residents of several villages inhabited by Druze. One of these villages was also Ein Kiniya.
Ein Kinia was described at the end of the 19th century by the French traveler Victor Gerin as a village with a population of about 500 people, of which 300 were Druze, the rest were Christian Arabs ( Maronites ). There were several sources that provided residents with enough drinking water. They grew tobacco, cotton, olives and figs. [2]
In 1982, shortly after the annexation of the Golan Heights by Israel, a local council was established in Ein Kiniya. South of Ein Kiniya there was a bridge over the Nahal Saar Creek. The bridge during the Six Day War was blown up by the retreating Syrian army . After the war, the Gesher xa-Yedidut Friendship Bridge ( Hebrew גשר הידידות ), which symbolizes the friendly relations between Jews and Druzes, was rebuilt. [3]
Population
According to the Central Bureau of Statistics of Israel , the population at the beginning of 2018 was 2,033 people [4] .
According to data in 2005, 98.8% of the Druze lived in Ein Kiniya, 0.7% of Arab Christians, and 0.5% of Arab Muslims. During 2009, the registered population decreased by 13.2%.
Notes
- ↑ Central Bureau of Statistics of the State of Israel. Data for 2011. (Hebrew)
- ↑ Yigal Alon. Museum and Education Center - Man in the Galilee, Databases - Ein Kiniya) Archived January 14, 2010 on Wayback Machine (Hebrew)
- ↑ Friendship Bridge (Hebrew)
- ↑ Official data on Israeli settlements on 12/31/2017 (Hebrew) . Central Bureau of Statistics of Israel . Date of treatment December 27, 2018.