Yokneam Moshava
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| Coordinates: 32°39′14.04″N 35°6′1.07″E / 32.6539000°N 35.1002972°ECoordinates: 32°39′14.04″N 35°6′1.07″E / 32.6539000°N 35.1002972°E | |
| District | Northern |
| Council | Megiddo |
| Affiliation | Agricultural Union |
| Founded | 1935 |
| Founded by | Jews from the Yishuv and Jewish immigrants. |
| Population (2015) | 1,345 |
Yokneam (Hebrew: יָקְנְעָם) is a rural settlement in Israel's Northern District, on the outskirts of the city of Yokneam Illit. Located on the border of the Jezreel Valley and the Menashe Heights, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Megiddo Regional Council and is administrated by a local committee which is elected every five years. In 2015 it had a population of 1,345.
Yokneam is named after a biblical city-state mentioned in : "The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one." Yokneam is also mentioned in as one of the borders of the Tribe of Zebulun: "And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families: and the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid: And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that is before Jokneam.
In around 1872 the land was purchased by three families and was split into two sections: the first was owned by the Sursock and Tueni families of Beirut, and the second was owned by the Khouri family of Haifa. Both sections were the same size and together measured 17,500 dunams in total. Two Arab minor sharecropper villages called Qira and Qamun existed on the land. Qira was located near the spring of the Shofet river and Qamun was located on Tel Qamun, the location of the ancient city of Yokneam.
Yehoshua Hankin, a prominent Zionist activist and one of the managers of the Palestine Land Development Company, who had had close ties with the Sursock family since 1891, planned to purchase land in the Jezreel Valley owned by the family. In 1924, the Sursock family initiated the deal and Hankin purchased the section of the land that was owned by the Sursock and Tueni families (8,750 dunams) for a price of 37,686 Palestine pounds. On 6 February 1934, after years of negotiations, Hankin purchased the other half from the Khouri family (8,750 dunams) for a price of 40,391 Palestine pounds. The Khouri family finally agreed to the deal because it went bankrupt. 70 dunams of the land were transferred to the kibbutz of HaZorea.
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