Zarzir
{{Short description|Town in Israel}}
{{About|the town in Israel|the village in northern Syria|Zarzur}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Zarzir
| native_name = {{Hlist
| {{Lang|he|{{Script/Hebrew|זַרְזִיר}}|rtl=yes}}
| {{Lang|ar|زرزير|rtl=yes}}
}}
| settlement_type = Local council (from 1997)
| translit_lang1 = Hebrew
| translit_lang1_type1 = ISO 259
| translit_lang1_info1 = Zarzir
| translit_lang1_type3 = Also spelled
| translit_lang1_info3 = Bet Zarzir (official)
| image_skyline = File:Zarzir council.jpg
| image_caption = Council headquarters
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| coordinates = {{coord|32|43|38|N|35|13|29|E|region:IL|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|Israel}}
| subdivision_type1 = District
| subdivision_name1 = Northern
| unit_pref = dunam
| area_total_dunam = {{formatnum:3889|R}}
| population_footnotes = {{Israel populations|reference}}
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Zarzir ({{langx|ar|زرزير}}, {{langx|he|זַרְזִיר}}), also known as Beit Zarzir, is an Arab local council located {{convert|10|km|mi}} west of the city of Nazareth in the Northern District of Israel. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Zarzir}},{{Israel populations|reference}} consisting of five Bedouin tribes, Mazarib, Grifat, Haib, Jawamis, and Eyadat.
Service in the IDF
A few kilometres away, at HaMovil Junction, there is a memorial to the Bedouin soldiers of the IDF fallen since 1948, 230 of them by 2022.[https://magazine.esra.org.il/posts/entry/monument-honors-fallen-bedouin-soldiers-of-israel.html?format=amp Monument Honors Fallen Bedouin Soldiers of Israel]. Lydia Aisenberg for ESRAmagazine, 21 February 2022. Accessed 6 June 2024. The Monument to the Bedouin Soldier (sometimes translated a Fighter or Warrior), established at a site close to Bedouin and other Israeli Arab towns, was inaugurated on Independence Day in 1993 by then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The memorial includes a museum of Bedouin heritage and a garden with medicinal herbs.
On June 6, 2024, during the Hamas-Israel war, an IDF soldier from Zarzir was killed in action in the Gaza Strip by Hamas gunmen who were trying to infiltrate through the border fence into Israel. Warrant Officer Zeed Mazarib, 34, was part of a force of Bedouin trackers from the Desert Reconnaissance Battalion sent to intercept the Hamas cell.[https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-strikes-school-in-central-gaza-where-it-says-dozens-of-terrorists-were-gathered/ IDF strikes school in central Gaza where it says dozens of terrorists were gathered], Emanuel Fabian for Times of Israel, posted & accessed June 6, 2024.
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
Dr. Tomer Mazarib, The Integration Process of the Bedouin population into Arab Villages and Towns in the Galilee: Historical, Social and Cultural Aspects from the beginning of the 18th Century to the end of the 20th Century (Haifa: University of Haifa Press, 2016).
External links
- [http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Zarazir_1717/index.html Welcome To Zarazir].
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