Hura
Sign in to savethumb|right|A view of Hura Hura, or Houra (, ) is a Bedouin town in the Southern District of Israel. It is located near Beersheba and beside the town Meitar. The town was established in 1989 as a part of solution offered by the state for the consolidation of Negev Bedouin population, and was declared a local council in 1996. In it had a population of .
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Place details
- Locality
- حورة
- Region
- מחוז הדרום
- Country
- ישראל
- Population
- 21,558
- Timezone
- Asia/Jerusalem
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Hura
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Local council
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Hura.jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Israel north negev#Israel
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Southern
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1989
- Settlement.leader_title
- Head of Municipality
- Settlement.leader_name
- Alatawneh Habes
- Settlement.unit_pref
- dunam
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- חורה
- Country
- Israel
- Located in
- Southern District
- Population
- 23942
- Area
- 6.646
- Elevation
- 418
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.huranet.org/Pages/default.aspx
- Image
- Hura.jpg
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- Commons category
- Hura, Israel
- inception
- 1989-01-01
- native label
- חורה
- postal code
- 85730
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thumb|right|A view of Hura Hura, or Houra (, ) is a Bedouin town in the Southern District of Israel. It is located near Beersheba and beside the town Meitar. The town was established in 1989 as a part of solution offered by the state for the consolidation of Negev Bedouin population, and was declared a local council in 1996. In it had a population of .
Hura is one of seven Bedouin townships in the Negev desert with approved plans and developed infrastructure (the other six are: Ar'arat an-Naqab (Ar'ara BaNegev), Lakiya, Shaqib al-Salam (Segev Shalom), Kuseife (Kseife), Tel as-Sabi (Tel-Sheva) and the city of Rahat, the largest among them).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hura” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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