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Poria Illit

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name	Poria Illit
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image	Poria Illit.JPG
foundation	1912 (original)
1940 (first re-establishment)
1955 (second re-establishment)
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district	north
council	Emek HaYarden
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population
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pushpin_map	Israel northeast#Israel
pushpin_mapsize	250
pushpin_label_position	left
meaning	Upper Poria
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1940 (first re-establishment) 1955 (second re-establishment)

Poria Illit or Poriya Illit (, lit. "Upper Poriya") is a community settlement in northern Israel. Located near the southwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek HaYarden Regional Council. In it had a population of .

Etymology

Poria or poriya, pronounced poriyA (with stress on a), is the transliteration of פוריה, the singular feminine form of the Hebrew word for 'fertile' or 'productive'.

History

Poria was first settled in 1912 and operated as a farm run by Jewish immigrants from the Second Aliyah. However, the original residents left after the outbreak of World War I, and the land was abandoned until 1940.

That year a group of settlers (kvutza) affiliated with the socialist-Zionist Noar HaOved (Working Youth) movement, Alumot, settled in the area. They renovated the original basalt stone houses, naming the village Poria Alumot. In 1947 they were given a permanent site for their kibbutz at Bitania Illit, on a hill opposite Poria. The new kibbutz was named Alumot.

Another kibbutz founded in its place was dissolved in 1949 and most of the residents moved to Alumot. Poria Illit was established in 1955. In 1991 it was officially recognized as distinct from Poria – Neve Oved.

According to the Company for Location and Restitution of Holocaust Victims' Assets, there are 65 plots in Poria that were purchased by Jews who were later murdered in the Holocaust.

File:Poria Farm 1912.png|Poria farm, 1912 File:פוריה - מראה.-JNF045511.jpeg|Poria 1940 File:פוריה - חדר האוכל בקבוצת אלומות-JNF034077.jpeg|Poria 1946

Health care

The nearby Poriya Medical Center was founded in 1955, replacing the Schweitzer Memorial Hospital from Tiberias. The center incorporates a maternity hospital owned by the Scottish Church, previously also located in Tiberias. In 2005, the center was renamed for Prof. Baruch Padeh, former director-general of the Ministry of Health, who headed the hospital in 1974–1976. Located on Poriya Ridge above Tiberias, it serves the population of Tiberias, Golan Heights, Jordan Valley, Lower Galilee, among them many kibbutzim and moshavim. In 2022 it was again rebranded as the Tzafon Medical Center (Northern Medical Center).

Notable people

Oron Shaul, soldier killed in Gaza and ransomed by Hamas

References

Bousso, Nimrod. (October 24, 2011). "Bringing the Boondocks in From Beyond the Pale". Haaretz.
"Inflection of פּוֹרֶה".
[http://www.romgalil.org.il/cds/135/ Poria Illit] Galilee Development Authority {{in lang. he
Bousso, Nimrod. (May 16, 2014). "A Gift From Shoah Victims to Survivors, Decades On". Haaretz.
[http://www.poria.health.gov.il/?CategoryID=2168&ArticleID=3288 Poriya Medical Center]

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