ʿArʿara

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ʿARʿARA

ʿAR ʿARA (Ar. ﺮﻋﺮﻋة, ʿArʿarata), Israeli Muslim-Arab village near the Iron Valley road connecting Ḥaderah with Afulah (a stretch of the ancient Via Maris). It had 2,450 inhabitants in 1967 and 14,500 in 2002, with an economy based on field and garden crops, tobacco, olives, fruit trees, and sheep. In 1970 it received municipal status. Its area is 3.5 sq. mi. (9 sq. km.).

[Efraim Orni /

Shaked Gilboa (2nd ed.)]

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