Hof HaCarmel Regional Council

Regional council

Hof HaCarmel חוף הכרמל‎
Regional council (from 1951)

District	Haifa
Government
• Head of Municipality	Asif Izek
Area
• Total	187,360 dunams (187.36 km or 72.34 sq mi)
Population
• Total	28,500
• Density	150/km (390/sq mi)
Website	Official website

Hof HaCarmel Regional Council (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית חוף הכרמל, Mo'atza Azorit Hof ha-Karmel, lit. Carmel Coast Regional Council) is a regional council located in the northern Israeli coastal plain. The council serves a large area, stretching from Tirat HaCarmel in the north to Caesarea in the south. Its offices are located in Ein Carmel to the south of Haifa. The head of the council is Asif Izek, elected in 2018.

Location

Straddling the coast of the Mediterranean Sea to the west, the boundaries of the municipal area are:

To the north: Haifa, Tirat HaCarmel and Zevulun Regional Council
To the south: Hadera, Pardes Hanna-Karkur and Menashe Regional Council
To the east: Megiddo and Jezreel Valley regional councils as well as the Wadi Ara settlements.

In the centre of the council area are the enclave towns of Binyamina, Zikhron Ya'akov, Fureidis and Jisr az-Zarqa.

Communities

Hof HaCarmel Regional Council contains many different types of settlements, including eight kibbutzim, ten moshavim and two community settlements. Most of the land in the Hof HaCarmel region is owned and leased by the Israel Land Administration.

Kibbutzim

Moshavim

Community settlements

Other villages

Ein Hod
Ein Hawd (Arab village)
Kfar Galim (educational campus)
Kfar Tzvi Sitrin (educational campus)
Meir Shfeya (youth village)
Sheikh Brak (unrecognized and recently abandoned Armenian village)

Education

Educational institutes include:

Yemin Orde (religious)
Zvi Sitrin Village (religious)
Meir Shfeya (youth village)
Hof HaCarmel Comprehensive High School, in Ma'agan Michael
Matal Hof Hacarmel - an educational therapeutic centre established in 1990 by the Board of Education and Hof HaCarmel Regional Council to deal with comprehensive diagnostic and therapy of children with special needs.

Sister regions

New Hampshire, United States since December 2004

External links

Official website (in Hebrew)

v t e Hof HaCarmel Regional Council
Kibbutzim	Beit Oren Ein Carmel HaHotrim Ma'agan Michael Ma'ayan Tzvi Nahsholim Neve Yam Sdot Yam
Moshavim	Bat Shlomo Beit Hanania Dor Ein Ayala Geva Carmel HaBonim Kerem Maharal Megadim Nir Etzion Ofer Tzrufa
Community settlements	Atlit Caesarea Ein Hod
Other villages	Ein Hawd Kfar Galim Kfar Tzvi Sitrin Meir Shfeya

v t e Regional councils of Israel
Center District	Brenner Drom HaSharon Gan Raveh Gederot Gezer Hefer Valley Hevel Modi'in Hevel Yavne Hof HaSharon Lev HaSharon Nahal Sorek Sdot Dan
Haifa District	Alona Hof HaCarmel Menashe Zevulun
Jerusalem District	Mateh Yehuda
Judea and Samaria Area	Gush Etzion Har Hevron Southern Jordan Valley (Bik'at HaYarden) Mateh Binyamin Megilot Dead Sea Shomron
North District	al-Batuf Bustan al-Marj Gilboa Golan Jezreel Valley Northern Jordan Valley (Emek HaYarden) Lower Galilee Ma'ale Yosef Mateh Asher Megiddo Merom HaGalil Mevo'ot HaHermon Misgav Upper Galilee Valley of Springs
South District	al-Kasom Be'er Tuvia Bnei Shimon Central Arava Eshkol Hevel Eilot Hof Ashkelon Lakhish Merhavim Neve Midbar Ramat HaNegev Sha'ar HaNegev Sdot Negev (Azata) Shafir Tamar Yoav

v t e Haifa District
Cities	Baqa al-Gharbiyye Hadera Haifa Harish Kiryat Ata Kiryat Bialik Kiryat Motzkin Kiryat Yam Nesher Or Akiva Tirat Carmel Umm al-Fahm
Local councils	Ar'ara ('Ara) Basma Binyamina-Giv'at Ada Daliyat al-Karmel Fureidis Isfiya Jatt Jisr az-Zarqa Kafr Qara Kiryat Tiv'on Ma'ale Iron Pardes Hanna-Karkur Rekhasim Zikhron Ya'akov
Regional councils	Alona Hof HaCarmel Menashe Zevulun
See also	Haifa metropolitan area Krayot
Other sub-divisions: Central District Jerusalem District Judea and Samaria Area Northern District Southern District Tel Aviv District

32°36′N 35°00′E / 32.600°N 35.000°E / 32.600; 35.000

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