The Sea of Galilee, also Kinneret, Lake of Gennesaret, or Lake Tiberias (, Judeo-Aramaic: י ַ מ ּ א דטבריא, ), is the largest freshwater lake in Israel, and it is approximately in circumference, about long, and wide.

The Sea of Galilee ( Kinneret ) is situated in northeast Israel, near the Golan Heights, in the Jordan Rift Valley, the valley caused by the separation of the African and Arabian Plates.

Israel's most well-known open water swim race, the Kinneret Crossing, is held every year in September, drawing thousands of open water swimmers to participate in competitive and noncompetitive events.

Tiberias (;, Tverya, Tiveria ;, ) is a city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee ( also called the Kinneret ), Lower Galilee, Israel.

Remembering her youth on a kibbutz on the shores of the Kinneret, one woman said: " Oh, how beautiful it was when we all took part in the discussions, were nights of searching for one another — that is what I call those hallowed nights.

Kinneret Day School is a private Jewish day school in Spuyten Duyvil, serving grades K through 8 in addition to pre-school.

In 1909, Jewish pioneers established the first cooperative farming village ( kibbutz ), Kvutzat Kinneret.

Hayes also asserted that the Yarmouk River would be channeled into Lake Kinneret, in order to prevent a rise in its salinity which could come about as a result of the diversion of the River Jordan, and that a joint Israeli-Jordanian dam about 5 km east of kibbutz Sha ' ar HaGolan would be constructed.

** Kvutzat Kinneret, kibbutz southwest of the lake

The center of Jewish culture and learning shifted to the region of the Kinneret, particularly the city of Tiberias.

By early April 2012, having risen almost two metres over the winter, the water level of the Kinneret was at its highest level in five years.

In 1951 his mortal remains were buried in the Kibbutz Kinneret beside the other founders of Labour Zionism.

Lahav authored screenplays, including the 1996 Israeli crime film Kesher Dam, and two novels: Andre ’ s Wooden Clogs ( Kinneret, 2002 ), based on the true-life story of a boy's survival of The Holocaust in Holland ( in Hebrew, also translated to Dutch, Italian and English ), and The Swamp Queen Does The Tango ( Am Oved, 2004 ), an adult fairy tale ( in Hebrew ).

** Syrian and Israeli troops clash over Lake Kinneret ( also known as the Sea of Galilee ) for 3 hours.

The region in turn gave the English name " Sea of Galilee " to the Kinneret ( Numbers 34: 11, etc.

Theologians and ichthyologists speculate that the apostle Peter and his contemporaries harvested the fish that are today sold in modern industry along the Sea of Galilee, presently known as Lake Kinneret.

The modern name, Kinneret, comes from the Old Testament or Hebrew Tanakh " sea of Chinnereth " in and, and spelled " Chinneroth " in.

The name Kinneret may originate from the Hebrew word kinnor (" harp " or " lyre ")), in view of the shape of the lake.

Later, Kinneret pioneers established Kibbutz Degania Alef.

Here many different age groups work together to build a raft with their bare hands and then sail that raft across the Kinneret.

Moshe Dayan was born on Kibbutz Degania Alef near the shores of Lake Kinneret ( Sea of Galilee ) in pre-Mandate Palestine.

Also in the area are several pre-schools including the Riverdale Temple Nursery School, Spuyten Duyvil Preschool, Kinneret Day School, SAR Academy ( Early Learning Center ) Riverdale Nursery School and Family Center, and the Riverdale Presbyterian Church Nursery School.

He died in Afula on 29 February 1980 and was buried on the shore of Lake Kinneret ( the Sea of Galilee ) in the cemetery of Kibbutz Ginosar.

* 1981: Kinneret Shiryon, born in the United States, became the first female rabbi in Israel.

Hess's grave near Lake Kinneret, Israel.

In 1961 he was re-interred in the Kinneret Cemetery in Israel along with other Socialist-Zionists such as Nachman Syrkin, Ber Borochov, and Berl Katznelson.

Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;

But he is more interesting than the others, the ones who come from the highroad to watch him, more interesting than Life considered as a cyclist.

a `` Double-Figure '', which went to the Chicago Art Institute, and is considered by him the most successful of his abstracts ; ;

The young William Faulkner in New Orleans in the 1920's impressed the novelist Hamilton Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner, and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so.

After allowing for group exposures, it is apparent that other factors must be considered if we are to comprehend fanaticism.

If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.

This is not to assume that his work was without merit, but the validity of his assumptions concerning the meaning of history must always be considered against this background of an unprofessional approach.

The national average is more than $4 and that figure is considered by experts in the mental health field to be too low.

A recent study on radiation exposure by the AEC's division of biology and medicine stated: `` The question of the biological effect of ( radiation ) doses is not considered '' herein.

The latter matter is considered in detail in a later section.

This agreement is considered very good for such short time intervals.

As was said in Gonzales, `` it is the Appeal Board which renders the selective service determination considered ' final ' in the courts, not to be overturned unless there is no basis in fact.

the Athletic program at Carleton is considered an integral part of the activities of the College and operates under the same budgetary procedure and controls as the academic work.

Whether considered alone or in relation to other editions, COLH 40 is a document of prime importance.

Biological warfare is considered to be primarily a strategic weapon.

The following information on snakes varying greatly in size ( but all with less than a 10-foot maximum ) shows, when considered with the foregoing, that there is probably no correlation between the length of a snake and the time required for it to mature.

It is hypothesized that fertility is a function of the social system when the population as a whole is considered and a function of the subsystems when the two-fold division of core families and marginal families is considered.