Arbel
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Arbel אַרְבֵּל |
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Remains of the ancient synagogue
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 Arbel
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| Coordinates: 32°48′44″N 35°28′57″E / 32.81222°N 35.48250°ECoordinates: 32°48′44″N 35°28′57″E / 32.81222°N 35.48250°E | |
| Grid position | 195/246 PAL |
| Council | Lower Galilee Regional Council |
| Founded | 1949 |
| Founded by | Demobilized soldiers |
| Population (2015) | 673 |
Arbel (Hebrew: אַרְבֵּל) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located on Mount Arbel next to the Sea of Galilee near Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council. In 2015 its population was 673.
Arbel was established in 1949 by demobilized soldiers on the lands of the depopulated Arab village of Hittin, whose residents fled/were expelled during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It was initially a moshav shitufi, but became a moshav ovdim in 1959.
Ceramics from the late Roman and Byzantine periods have been found.
In Second Temple period, the village of Arbel was the home of the sage Nittai of Arbela. According to Josephus, Arbel was the site of military operations carried out by the forces of Herod the Great in his conquest of the land from Antigonus II Mattathias.
In 1047 CE, Nasir Khusraw was on a pilgrimage through Palestine, and noted that he came to the village of Irbil, after leaving Hittin, on his way to Tabariyyah. He further noted that "on the south side of [Irbil] rises a mountain; and on the mountain is an enclosure, which same contains four graves -those of the sons of Yacub (Jacob) - .[..] -who were brothers of Yusuff (Joseph) [..] And going onward I came to a hill, and below the hill a cavern, in which was the tomb of the mother of Moses."
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