Kinneret

Kinneret is the English transliteration for Kineret, the Hebrew name of the Sea of Galilee, the largest freshwater lake in Israel.

Other meanings of Kinneret and Kineret include:

Places

  • Camp Kinneret, a summer camp of Canadian Young Judaea
  • Kinneret (archaeological site), biblical city which gave the Sea of Galilee its Hebrew name; now Tell el-'Oreimeh or Tel Kinrot on the northwestern coast of the lake
  • Kinneret College, college south of the Sea of Galilee
  • Kinneret Farm, experimental training farm (1908-1949), now museum
  • Kinneret Subdistrict, Israel
  • Kvutzat Kinneret, kibbutz southwest of the Sea of Galilee
  • Moshavat Kinneret, village (moshava) southwest of the Sea of Galilee
  • Kinneret Day School, Jewish day school in Riverdale, NY

People

  • Kineret (singer), an Orthodox Jewish recording artist
  • Kinneret Shiryon (born 1955), Reform rabbi, the first female rabbi in Israel

Other

  • Kineret (medication), brand name of anakinra; no direct relation to the lake
  • Kinneret, Israeli song based on Rachel Bluwstein's poem "Perhaps" ("Ve'Ulai")
  • Kinneret bream or Kinneret bleak, Acanthobrama terraesanctae, fish endemic to the Sea of Galilee and a second lake in Syria
  • Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir, publishing company, Israel
  • Operation Kinneret, another name of the Israeli military Operation Olive Leaves

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Kinneret
  • All pages with titles containing Kineret
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