Wadi Ara
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Wadi Ara or Nahal Iron (Arabic: وادي عارة, Hebrew: נחל עירון, ואדי עארה), refers to an area within Israel that is mostly populated by Arabs. It is located northwest of the Green Line and is mostly within Israel's Haifa District. Originally captured by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, it was ceded to Israel in exchange for territory south of Hebron in the 1949 Israel-Jordan armistice.
The area has come under political attention as some Israeli politicians such as Avigdor Lieberman of the Yisrael Beiteinu party have brought up transferring the area to the sovereignty and administration of the Palestinian Authority for a future Palestinian State. In return the Palestinian Authority is to transfer specific large Israeli settlement "blocs" within the West Bank east of the Green Line to the Israel. According to politicians who support this land-swap, Israel would ensure and secure itself as primarily Jewish state. However many politicians within the Knesset disagree and believe it would only decrease Israel's Arab population by a mere 10%, while most Israeli Arabs object to trading Israeli citizenship for Palestinian citizenship.[1]
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[edit] Localities in Wadi Ara
[edit] Arab
- Aqqada
- Ar'ara ('Ara included in municipal borders)
- al-Arian
- Baqa-Jatt (Merger of Baqa al-Gharbiyye and Jatt)
- Basma (Merger of Barta'a West, Ein as-Sahala, and Muawiya)
- Bir as-Sikka
- Buweishat
- al-Byar
- Dar al-Hanoun
- Ein Ibrahim
- Kafr Qara
- Khor Saqr
- Ibthan
- Ma'ale Iron (Baiyada, Musmus, Zalafa, Musheirifa, Salim)
- al-Marja
- Meiser
- Muallaqa
- Murtafi'a
- al-Shari'ah
- Umm al-Fahm
- Umm al-Qutuf
- Yamma
[edit] Jewish
- Ein Iron
- Barkai
- Gan HaShomron
- Giv'at-Oz
- Ma'ale Iron
- Ma'anit
- Magal
- Maor
- Mei Ami
- Metzer
- Qazir-Harish
- Zemer
[edit] References
- ^ Israeli Arabs and the vote Uri Dromi
[edit] See also
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