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Ein Qiniya عين قنية עין קנייא‎
Village
Ein Qiniyye
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Coordinates: 33°14′13″N 35°43′51″E / 33.23694°N 35.73083°E / 33.23694; 35.73083
Country	Golan Heights, internationally recognized as Syrian territory occupied by Israel. See Status of the Golan Heights.
Israeli District	Northern District
Israeli Subdistrict	Golan
Syrian Governorate	Quneitra Governorate
Syrian District	Quneitra District
Syrian Subdistrict	Mas'ade Subdistrict
Population	2,190

Ein Qiniyye or 'Ayn Qunya (Template:Lang-ar; Template:Lang-he) is a Druze village in the Israeli-occupied southern foothills of Mount Hermon, 750 meters above sea level. It was granted local council status in 1982. Its inhabitants are mostly Syrian citizens with permanent residency status in Israel (for more about the status and position of the Golan Heights Druze community see here). In 2022 it had a population of 2,190.

History

Ein Qiniyye is one of the four remaining Druze-Syrian communities on the Israeli-occupied side of Mount Hermon and the Golan Heights, together with Majdal Shams, Mas'ade and Buq'ata. Geographically a distinction is made between the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon, the boundary being marked by the Sa'ar Stream; however, administratively usually they are lumped together. Ein Qiniyye and Majdal Shams are on the Hermon side of the boundary, thus sitting on limestone, while Buq'ata and Mas'ade are on the Golan side, characterised by black volcanic rock (basalt).

Since the adoption of the 1981 Golan Heights Law, Ein Qiniyye is under Israeli civil law, and incorporated into the Israeli system of local councils. Some of the young people of the village used to study at Syrian universities, but at the end of 2012 a Druze cleric advised them against applying until the Syrian Civil War was over. Most of the town's residents are Druze, but a few Christians remain of a much larger community that left the town in the 1940s and 1950s.

Sister City

• Great Neck, New York, USA (2022)

References

1. "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
2. ^ "The Druze population in Israel - a collection of data on the occasion of the Prophet Shuaib holiday" (PDF). CBS - Israel. Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 2019-04-17. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
3. Syria war drives Druze students away Ynetnews, 2 December 2012
4. "Last Christians of Israeli-controlled Golan Heights endure". Arab News. 30 June 2017.
5. "Last Christians of Israeli-controlled Golan Heights endure". France24. 30 June 2017.
6. Hasten, Josh "Great Neck, NY, signs ‘sister pact’ with Israeli towns" JNS.org Dec. 7, 2022 https://www.jns.org/great-neck-ny-signs-sister-pact-with-israeli-towns/

External links

• Media related to Ein Qiniyye at Wikimedia Commons

v t e Quneitra Governorate of Syria
Quneitra District	Quneitra Asbah al-Asha Ayn al-Tineh Ayyuba Bariqa al-Bassa al-Sharqiya–Ayn Qadi Beer Ajam Ghadir al-Bustan Hader Hajja Khan Arnabah Kudna Kum al-Basha Kum al-Wasiyya–Marj Barghut Jabah Jubata al-Khashab Maalaqah Madinat al-Salam Masharah Mamtana Naba al-Sakher Qarqas al-Qahtaniyah al-Qasibah al-Rafid Ruwayhina al-Suwaysah Tirinja al-Ufaniya Umm Batinah
Fiq District	Sayda
Syrian localities in Israeli-occupied Golan Heights	Populated Buq'ata Ein Qiniyye Ghajar Majdal Shams Mas'ade Depopulated Al-Ahmadiyah Al-'Al Almin 'Ayn Fit Ain Hamra Ain Ziwan al-Birah al-Butayha Dabburah Dalwa Dayr Aziz Dayr Siras al-Eshshah Fiq Hafar Hatal Jabbin Jawziah Jubata ez-Zeit Kafr Harib Kafr al-Ma Kafr Naffakh Khisfin Khushniyeh Khokhah Kisrin Mansura Qarahta Er-Ramthaniyye Saffuriyah Shayta al-Sindiyanah Skufiyah as-Summaqah Umm al-Dananir Za'ura
Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights	Town Katzrin Kibbutzim Afik Ein Zivan Ein Gev El Rom Gadot Geshur Kfar Haruv Ma'agan Merom Golan Metzar Mevo Hama Mishmar HaYarden Natur Ortal Snir Tel Katzir Moshavim Alonei HaBashan Ani'am Avnei Eitan Bnei Yehuda Eliad Givat Yoav Haspin Kanaf Keshet Kidmat Tzvi Ma'ale Gamla Neot Golan Neve Ativ Nimrod Nov Odem Ramat Magshimim Ramot Sha'al Yonatan Community settlements Kela Alon Had Nes HaOn Trump Heights
Israeli settlements in italics were on the Mandatory Palestine side of the 1923 border.

v t e Northern District of Israel
Cities	Acre Afula Beit She'an Karmiel Kiryat Shmona Ma'alot-Tarshiha Maghar Migdal HaEmek Nahariya Nazareth Nof HaGalil Safed Sakhnin Shefa-'Amr Tamra Tiberias Yokneam Illit
Local councils	Israel Abu Snan Arraba Basmat Tab'un Beitegen Bi'ina Bir al-Maksur Bu'eine Nujeidat Daburiyya Deir al-Asad Deir Hanna Eilabun Ein Mahil Fassuta Hurfeish Hatzor HaGlilit I'billin Iksal Ilut Jadeidi-Makr Jish Julis Ka'abiyye-Tabbash-Hajajre Kabul Kafr Kanna Kafr Manda Kafr Yasif Kaukab Abu al-Hija Kfar Kama Kfar Tavor Kfar Vradim Kisra-Sumei Majd al-Krum Mashhad Mazra'a Metula Migdal Mi'ilya Nahf Peki'in Ramat Yishai Rameh Reineh Rosh Pinna Sajur Sha'ab Shlomi Shibli–Umm al-Ghanam Tuba-Zangariyye Tur'an Yafa an-Naseriyye Yanuh-Jat Yarka Yavne'el Yesud HaMa'ala Zarzir Occupied Buq'ata Ein Qiniyye Ghajar Majdal Shams Mas'ade Katzrin (Israeli settlement)
Regional councils	Israel Al-Batuf Beit She'an Valley Bustan al-Marj Northern Jordan Valley (Emek HaYarden) Gilboa Jezreel Valley Lower Galilee Ma'ale Yosef Mateh Asher Megiddo Merom HaGalil Mevo'ot HaHermon Misgav Upper Galilee Occupied Golan

• Populated places in Quneitra Governorate
• Populated places in the Golan Heights
• Local councils in Northern District (Israel)
• Druze communities in Syria
• Christian communities in Syria
• Villages in Syria
• 14th-century establishments in the Mamluk Sultanate