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Jezreel Valley
A verdant valley cradled by ancient mountains, where the land speaks of millennia of cultivation and passage.
The Jezreel Valley unfolds across Israel's Northern District as a generous fertile plain, embraced by the Lower Galilee highlands to the north and Samaria's peaks to the south. Mount Carmel guards it from the west while the Jordan Valley marks its eastern boundary, with Mount Gilboa defining its southern reach. This amphitheater of geography has long drawn human settlement and trade.
Afula rises as the valley's largest city, positioned near its heart like a modern anchor to this ancient landscape. The valley's rich soil and strategic location have made it a crossroads of cultures and commerce throughout history, a place where earth and horizon seem to converse across generations.
The Jezreel Valley's Arabic name, Marj Ibn Amir, preserves linguistic memory alongside its Hebrew designation, reflecting the layered histories of those who have inhabited and crossed this land.
Test yourself
Which fertile plain in Asia straddles the boundary between Lower Galilee and Samaria, serving as a historic crossroads where Mount Carmel guards its western edge?
The Jezreel Valley is the only one of these four valleys that lies in Israel between Lower Galilee and Samaria with Mount Carmel to its west; the Hunza Valley is in Pakistan, Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan, and Bering Island is not a valley but an island in Russia.
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