Ya'ara
{{Infobox Kibbutz
| name = Ya'ara
| hebname = {{Script/Hebrew|יַעֲרָה}}
| image = Yaara.jpg
| foundation = 1950
| founded_by = Maghrebi Jews
| district = north
| council = Ma'ale Yosef
| affiliation = Moshavim Movement
| popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}}
| population = {{Israel populations|Ya'ara}}
| population_footnotes={{Israel populations|reference}}
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| coordinates = {{coord|33|4|1|N|35|11|5|E|display=inline,title}}
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Ya'ara ({{langx|he|יַעֲרָה||Honeysuckle}}) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located near Ma'alot-Tarshiha, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Ya'ara}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}
History
The village was established in 1950 on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Arab al-Samniyya{{cite book|title=All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_By7AAAAIAAJ |first=W.|last=Khalidi|author-link=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies|isbn=0-88728-224-5|page=6}} by immigrants from Yemen, who were later joined by Jewish immigrants from North Africa and local Bedouin, making it the first mixed Jewish-Bedouin village in the country. It was named after the surrounding forests.{{Citation needed|date=January 2016}}
During the 2023–24 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, northern Israeli border communities including Ya'ara faced targeted attacks by Hezbollah and Palestinian factions based in Lebanon, resulting in their evacuation.{{Cite web |last=Fabian |first=Emanuel |title=IDF to evacuate civilians from 28 communities along Lebanese border amid attacks |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-to-evacuate-civilians-from-28-communities-along-lebanese-border-amid-attacks/ |access-date=22 October 2023|date=16 October 2023 |website=The Times of Israel |language=en-US}}
References
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Category:Bedouin localities in Israel
Category:Populated places established in 1950
Category:Populated places in Northern District (Israel)
Category:1950 establishments in Israel