Ma’ona Colony
July 14, 2025
Ma’alot
July 14, 2025Ein Ya’akov is a moshav located in the north of the occupied Palestinian territory, near the settlement of Ma’alot-Tarshiha. It was established in 1953 by Jewish immigrants from Kurdistan and Iraq on land situated to the east of the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Kabri, in the district of Acre.
As of 2021, the population of the settlement was 1,215 settlers.
Sources:
Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, Hebrew sources were used:
- The settlement’s website (in Hebrew)
- Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics
- Palestine Remembered entry for the village of al-Kabri