Reineh

Infobox Israel municipality
name=Reineh


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hebname=ריינה
arname=لرينة
meaning=
founded=
type=lc
typefrom=1968
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altOffSp=Arrabe
altUnoSp='Arraba-Batuf
district=north
population=15,300
popyear=2005
area_dunam=10000

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Reineh, or Reine (Arabic: الرينة, Hebrew: ריינה) is an Israeli Arab village in the Galilee, located between Nazareth and Qana of Galilee. The village attained Local council status in 1968. As of 2004, Reineh is home to 15,300 residents, of which 80% are Muslim Arab, 19.3% are Christian Arab and the minuscule remainder being Druze Arabs, according to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics.

History

The village is believed to be located on the site of ancient Abel, whence flowed water to Sepphoris. Until 1927 the village was located north of the Nazareth highway, but a destructive earthquake led its inhabitants to resettle south of the road in its present location.

Until 1970 Reina, Israel was in elementary school and one was rented rooms and managed by the son of the village Ali Qassem Hamdan Athamneh after a bitter struggle with the authorities by the residents of the village and Ali Qassem Hamdan atamni able to build two primary schools in 1970. The majority of the construction costs by villagers who volunteered and volunteered to build schools. In 1978 started at the high school and began working in the same year and was the initiator of a secondary school Ali Qassem Hamdan Athamenh The mobile classroom, and within five years, this school has become one of the best secondary schools in Israel .

Reine also takes pride in its graduates who went on to pursue bigger and greater things, two of whom are:Prof Asaad Nimer Bsoul (currently living in the USA) and Dr. Ahmad Rinawi. The three Rinawi Brothers are referred to by some as Palestine Poets. They are the late Abu al-Amin: Toufik Rinawi, Abu Atef: Mohamad Rinawi Bsoul, and the late Abu Mansour: Elias Mansour Rezek Software Eng.
*List of Arab localities in Israel