Meiser

Meiser
Hebrew	מֵיסִר
Arabic	ميسر
Council	Menashe
Coordinates	32°26′41″N 35°2′31″E / 32.44472°N 35.04194°E / 32.44472; 35.04194Coordinates: 32°26′41″N 35°2′31″E / 32.44472°N 35.04194°E / 32.44472; 35.04194
Meiser

Meiser (Arabic: ميسر‎; Hebrew: מֵיסִר‎‎) (also: Shaykh Maysar, Shaykh Maysir, Khirbat Maysar), is an Israeli Arab village located 0.5km west of the Green Line north of the city of Baqa-Jatt in the Wadi Ara region. It is one of three Arab villages in the Menashe Regional Council and is part of the triangle. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics the village had a population of 1,500 in 2005.

See also

• List of Arab localities in Israel
• Wadi Ara

Bibliography

• Conder, Claude Reignier and H.H. Kitchener (1881): The Survey of Western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archaeology. London:Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. vol 2 p. 68, map VIII
• Palmer, E. H. (1881): The survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English name lists collected during the survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and explained by E.H. Palmer. p.152,
• Petersen, Andrew (2002): A Gazetteer of Buildings in Muslim Palestine: Volume I (British Academy Monographs in Archaeology) p. 283
• http://www.cbs.gov.il/population/new_2007/table3.pdf

External links

• The Village's homepage