Key facts
- Native name
- עמק החולה ( Hebrew ) سهل الحولة ( Arabic )
- Type
- Valley
- Country
- Israel
- State province
- Northern District
- Population center
- Kiryat Shmona
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Encyclopedic overview
A wheat field in the Hula Valley, against the background of Mount Hermon, March 2007 Hula Valley farmland
The Hula Valley (Hebrew: עמק החולה, romanized: ʿEmeq haḤūlā; Arabic: سهل الحولة, romanized: Sahl al-Ḥūlat) is a topographic depression forming a valley and fertile agricultural region in northern Israel with abundant fresh water that used to be part covered by marshland and Lake Hula. These areas were a breeding ground for mosquitoes carrying malaria and were drained in the 1950s. A small section of the valley was later reflooded in an attempt to revive a nearly extinct ecosystem. It is a major stopover for birds migrating along the Great Rift Valley between Africa, Europe, and Asia, with an estimated 500 million migrating birds now pass through the Hula Valley every year.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hula Valley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.