Talk:Nahariya
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[edit] Spelling
The municipality of Nahariya website (see external link on page) spells it Nahariya, so I guess that's official. Whether it is correct according to the Academy for the Hebrew Language is another issue; that I do not know. -- Y Ynhockey || Talk Y 10:54, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- The Academy puts a double Y because of the dagesh on the yod. I am fine with Nahariya. That is also what the JP and Haaretz in English would use. Gilgamesh, Izak or anyone else, is there an agreement by now on which transliteration standard to use? gidonb 14:50, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Demographics and History
Was the municipality really started from nothing in the 1930's, or was there already a community there? It would be good if the history information reaches a little farther back. Also in demographics, "97.3% Jewish and non-Arabs" isn't very informative. Why combine Jews and non-Arabs into the same demographic group? I suggest a breakdown into at least Jewish, Arab, and "other" categories. CarlGH 10:19, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
- I believe 'Nahariya was founded in the 1930s' means just that - it was built from nothing in the 30s, granted, at the time it was a very small settlement. I will now update the article with bits of additional historic info from the Hebrew Wikipedia.
- The other thing is Jews + non-Arabs, because the Israel Central Bureau of statistics makes all censuses in this way, dividing between Arabs and non-Arabs. Sometimes the non-Arabs are further divided into Jews and others, but I can't find the information for Nahariya on the CBS site, so I can't say if this is the case here. If you find another census, or the CBS subdivisions, feel free to update the article.
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Ynhockey (Talk) 10:28, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
- (after edit conflict) Hi CarlGH, I believe that Nahariya was a new village in the 1930s on land that was bought to build that community. Please feel free to look for more information and add what you can find. Non-Arabs should indeed become "other", but only after the figure for Arabs is added. To separate Jews from "others" (3-4% of the Israelis) is usually difficult as the statistic is mostly given together with Jews. One of the reasons is that the overwhelming majority of the "others" are now family members of Jews who immigrated to Israel under the "law of return". Before the huge influx of "others" from the former USSR, the tiny "other" population (then perhaps 0.2% of the Israelis) was added to the Druze population. All Druze, almost all Muslims and a very large majority of the Christians are now summarized under Arabs. I think that the new classification lost detail, but even then it did not have the detail of the size of the "others". gidonb 10:40, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
