Kiryat Tivon
Kiryat Tiv'on
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| Hebrew transcription(s) | ||
| • ISO 259 | Qiryat Ṭibˁon | |
| • Also spelled | Qiryat Tiv'on (official) | |
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 Kiryat Tiv'on
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| Coordinates: 32°43′26″N 35°7′38″E / 32.72389°N 35.12722°ECoordinates: 32°43′26″N 35°7′38″E / 32.72389°N 35.12722°E | ||
| District | Haifa | |
| Government | ||
| • Type | Local council (from 1958) | |
| • Head of Municipality | David Ariely | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 8,419 dunams (8.419 km2 or 3.251 sq mi) | |
| Population (2015) | ||
| • Total | 17,859 | |
Kiryat Tiv'on (Hebrew: קִרְיַת טִבְעוֹן, also Qiryat Tiv'on; Arabic: كريات طبعون) is a town in the Haifa District of Israel, in the hills between the and Jezreel valleys. Kiryat Tiv'on is situated 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) southeast of Haifa, on the main road to Nazareth. Kiryat Tiv'on is the result of the municipal merger of several older settlements, Tiv'on (est. 1947), Elro'i (est. 1935), Kiryat HaRoshet (est. 1935) and Kiryat Amal (est. 1937). On the outskirts of Tiv'on is a Bedouin township called Basmat Tab'un. In 2015 it had a population of 17,859.
In 1859, the village of Tubaun was estimated to have a tillage of 22 feddans. In 1875, Victor Guérin found that the village had 200 inhabitants.
In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Tubaun as a small adobe village, on high ground, at the edge of the wood.
The 1922 census of Palestine showed that Tubun had 151 inhabitants, all Muslim. In 1925 a Zionist organisation purchased 30 feddans in Kiskis (present Alonim) and Tabon (present Kiryat Tiv'on) from the Sursuk family of Beirut. At the time, there were 36 families living there. In the 1931 census Tabun had a population of 239, still all Muslim, in a total of 48 houses. From 1931, and lasting several years, the Jewish Agency struggled to evict the tenant farmers from Tabaun, from the land which was to become Tivon.
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