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Masad, Israel

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli communal settlement in the lower galilee regional council”. Today it says “community settlement in northern israel”.
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Place in Israel Masad ( ) is an Israeli communal settlement in the Lower Galilee Regional Council . The village was founded as Har Kotz in 1982. Plans to build a quarry on Kotz Mountain were rejected by the National Planning and Construction Council in 2008 after protests staged by the residents of Massad and nearby Arab village of Eilabun . Masad is surrounded by the Har Kotz Nature Reserve. Among the trees found there are carob , mastic , Valonia oak , Christ's Thorn , Palestine oak , and Jerusalem thorn . The nature reserve derives its name from Mount Qotz (292 m), named for a priestly family that migrated to the Galilee from Jerusalem after the destruction of the Second Temple . News in brief, Haaretz Hareuveni, Imanuel (1985). קום התהלך בארץ: מדריך שמורות טבע בישראל (in Hebrew) (2nd ed.).1

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israeli communal settlement in the lower galilee regional council

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community settlement in northern israel

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