Shagor

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Shagor
Hebrew	שגור
Arabic	الشاغور (al-Shaghur)
Founded in	2003
Government	City (from 2005)
District	North
Population	27,800 (2004)
Jurisdiction	dunams

Shagor, or Al-Shaghur (Hebrew: שגור‎, Arabic: الشاغور‎) is a city in the North District of Israel. It was formed in 2003 with the merger of three Arab local councils Majd al-Krum, Deir al-Asad and Bi'ina. It was declared a city in 2005.

According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the city had a population of 27,800 at the end of 2004.

[edit] History

The three villages like other Arab villages in the Galilee were laregely agricultural. The main crops were the orchards of olives, figs, citrus and pomegranates.Majd al-Krum, Deir al-Asad and al-Bi'ina were captured by Israel on Oct. 30 during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish was temporarily educated in Deir al-Asad. This part of town also provided sanctuary to Uri Davis for a year while he was evading army service. A large percentage of land from the Shaghur villages was confiscated by Israel to form the nearby city of Karmiel.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Demographics

The city has a mostly Muslim and Arab population with a few Christian residents in the Bi'ina area. Most residents did not flee the city's neighborhoods during al-Nakba. The city seems somewhat divided due to the lack of cooperation between the two major areas of Majd al-Krum and Deir al-Asad. As a result after recent elections for city mayor, a Deir al-Asad resident was victorious. The residents of Majd al-Krum boycotted the elections and the area now finds itself at an economic and social disadvantage to the other city neighborhoods.

[edit] Sources

Nafez Nazzal, The Palestinian Exodus from Galilee 1948, Beirut: The Institute for Palestine Studies, 1978, p. 92
A. Pallemans United Nations Archives 13/3.3.1, box 11
Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS)

North District
Cities	Afula \| Acre (Akko) \| Bet She'an \| Karmiel \| Kiryat Shmona \| Ma'alot-Tarshiha \| Migdal HaEmek \| Nahariya \| Nazareth \| Nazareth Illit \| Safed \| Sakhnin \| Shagor \| Shefa-'Amr (Shfar'am) \| Tamra \| Tiberias
Local councils	Abu Sinan \| Ajar \| Arrabe \| Basmat Tiv'on \| Beit Jann \| Bir al-Maksur \| Bu'eine Nujeidat \| Buq'ata \| Deir Hanna \| Dvorya \| Eilabun \| Ein Knaya \| Ein Mahal \| Fassuta \| Ghajar \| Hurfeish \| Hazor HaGelilit \| I'billin \| Iksal \| Ilut \| Jadida Makar \| Julis \| Ka'abiyye-Tabbash-Hajajre \| Kabul \| Kafar Kanna \| Kaokab Abu al-Hija \| Katzrin \| Kfar Kama \| Kfar Manga \| Kfar Tavor \| Kfar Vradim \| Kfar Yasif \| Kineret \| Kisra-Sumei \| Maghar \| Ma'ilya \| Majdal Shams \| Mas'ada \| Mashhad \| Mazra'a \| Metula \| Mevo Hama \| Migdal \| Nahf \| Peki'in \| Ra'ama \| Reineh \| Ramat Yeshi \| Rosh Pinna \| Sajur \| Sha'ab \| Shelomi \| Shibli-Umm al-Janam \| Tuba-Zangariyye \| Tur'an \| Yafi'a \| Yanuh-Jat \| Yavne'el \| Yesod HaMa'ala \| Yirka \| Zarzir
Regional councils	Al-Batuf \| Bet Shean Valley \| Bustan al-Marj \| Northern Jordan Valley (Emek Hayarden) \| Gilboa \| Golan \| Jezreel Valley \| Lower Galilee \| Upper Galilee \| Ma'ale Yosef \| Mateh Asher \| Megiddo \| Merom HaGalil \| Mevo'ot HaHermon \| Misgav

Israeli municipality merger of 2003
New municipalities: Baqa-Jat \| Binyamina-Giv'at Ada \| Carmel City \| Kokhav Ya'ir \| Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut \| Shagor \| Tzoran-Kadima \| Yehud-Monosson
Old municipalities: Baqa al-Gharbiyye \| Bi'ina \| Binyamina \| Daliyat al-Karmel \| Deir al-Asad \| Giv'at Ada \| Isfiya \| Jat \| Kadima \| Maccabim-Re'ut \| Majd al-Krum \| Modi'in \| Neve Monosson \| Tzoran \| Tzur Yigal \| Yehud