The inhabitants fled after bombardment and the fall of major neighboring towns ( Shefa -' Amr and Nazareth ).

Tamra (, or ) is an Israeli Arab city in the North District of Israel located in the Lower Galilee north of the city of Shefa -' Amr and approximately east of Akko ( Acre ).

Others allege that the name " Shfar-am " was changed to an Arabic form " Shefa -' Amr " in the Mamluk period.

Archaeological research in Shefa -' Amr indicates that the area has been inhabited for centuries.

Shefa -' Amr is mentioned in the Talmud as one of the cities that contained the seat of the Jewish Sanhedrin.

Shefa -' Amr contains Byzantine remains, including remains of a church and tombs.

During early Ottoman rule in Palestine, in 1564 C. E., the revenues of the village of Shefa -' Amr were designated for the new waqf of Hasseki Sultan Imaret in Jerusalem, established by Hasseki Hurrem Sultan ( Roxelana ), the wife of Suleiman the Magnificent.

) mention that Shefa -' Amr was among a group of villages in nahiya of Akka which had rebelled against the Ottoman administration.

In the 1596 daftar, Shefa -' Amr was part of the nahiya ( subdistrict ) of Akka with a population of 91 households (" khana ").

After el-Omar's death in 1775, Jezzar Pasha allowed Uthman to continue as a ruler of Shefa -' Amr in return for a promise of loyalty and advance payment of taxes.

During this period Shefa -' Amr was a regional centre of some importance due to its location in the heart of the cotton growing area and its natural and man-made defenses.

The significance of cotton to the growth of Shefa -' Amr is fundamental.

Shefa -' Amr, 1910

Shefa -' Amr is an ancient city located in the North District in Israel at the entrance to Galilee.

Ibraheem Nimr Hussein, a former mayor of Shefa -' Amr, was chairman of the Committee of Arab Mayors in Israel ( later the Arab Follow-Up Committee ) from its inception in 1975.

According to Ynetnews, in January 2008, Mayor Ursan Yassin met with officials of the Israeli state committee on the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of independence, and announced that Shefa -' Amr intended to take part in the celebrations.

I want to hold a central ceremony in Shefa -' Amr, raise all the flags and have a huge feast.

The 40, 000 residents of Shefa -' Amr feel that they are a part of the State of Israel ... The desire to participate in the festivities is shared by most of the residents.

Population in Shefa -' Amr over the years:

Beit almusica conservatory was founded in 1999 by musician Aamer Nakhleh in the center of Shefa -' Amr.

Every year Shefa -' Amr holds a music festival known as the " Fort Festival.

Al Ghurbal center in Shefa -' Amr

The first plays in Shefa -' Amr were performed in the 1950s by the Christian scouts.

among them the sons of Shefa-A ' mr theater, Athar theater, house of the youth theater, Alghurbal Al Shefa -' Amry theater and Al Ufok theater.

During the early 1950s, about 25, 000 dunams of the land of Shefa Amr was expropriated by the following method: the land was declared a closed military area, then after enough time had passed for it to have become legally " uncultivated ", the Minister of Agriculture used his powers to " ensure that it was cultivated " by giving it to neighboring Jewish communities.

Such a concept derives from the Kabbalistic theology that the physical World, and also the Upper spiritual Worlds, are continuously recreated from nothing by the Shefa ( flow ) of Divine will, which emanates through the Sefirot.

On the night of 22 February 1946 the Palmach attacked the Police Tegart fort at Shefa ' Amr with a 200-pound bomb ; in the firefight that followed, the Palmach suffered casualties.

Situated on the south coast of the island of Efate, in Shefa Province, Port Vila is the economic and commercial centre of Vanuatu.

Shefa -' Amr is known for its mastic-flavored ice cream, bozet Shefa -' Amr.

It remains standing today and is the main church of the Greek Catholic community of Shefa -' Amr.

Efate is an island in the Pacific Ocean which is part of the Shefa Province in The Republic of Vanuatu.

Efate is governed by both the Port Vila Municipality and the Shefa Provincial Council, whose governance is the town limits of Port Vila only, and rural Efate and the outer Efate Islands, respectively.

Arab Knesset member Mohammad Barakeh, a Shefa -' Amr resident himself, warned that protests could erupt if police probe Zada's lynching: " Normally when someone stops a terrorist from continuing to kill he is considered a hero, but in this case it is the heroes who are sitting on the defense stand ".

The largest recorded dish of tabbouleh to date weighed 4, 324 kg ( 9, 532 lb 12 oz ) and was created on 13 November 2009 by the Yaldy Association at Alaayen Elementary School in the Arab town of Shefa -' Amr in Israel.

According to witnesses, the bus driver was initially surprised to see a religiously-observant Jewish soldier making his way to Shefa -' Amr ( an overwhelmingly Arab city ) via public bus, so he asked Natan-Zada if he was certain he wanted to take his current route.

Following the end of his studies, Barakeh returned to his hometown of Shefa -' Amr, a place with considerable importance in the internal politics of Israel's Arab citizens, and took up political activity in the local Maki branch.

* The old market of Shefa -' Amr was once the bustling heart of the city.

NJA helped with the development of other left wing Jewish organizations, including Americans for Peace Now, The New Israel Fund, Jewish Fund for Justice, The Shalom Center, The Shefa Fund, Bridges Journal, American Friends of Neve Shalom, Brit Tzedek v ' Shalom, Bat Shalom, and The Abraham Fund.

Shefa Tal-A Kabbalistic explanation of the Priestly Blessing with Adonai inscribed.

In the appendix are essays by Rabbi Shefa Gold, Zvi Bellin, and Tania Schweig about the Shekhinah.

Other leaders, teachers and authors associated with Jewish Renewal include Rabbis Arthur Waskow, Michael Lerner, Rachel Barenblat, Tirzah Firestone, Phyllis Berman, Shefa Gold, David Ingber, and Marcia Prager.