Yirka

Yirka (Hebrew: יִרְכָּא‬, Arabic: يركا‎) is an Israeli Druze toun in Israel's North Destrict, northeast o Acre. History In 1596, Yirka appeared in Ottoman tax registers as bein in the Nahiya o Akka o the Liwa o Safad. It haed a population o 174 Muslim hoosehaulds an 24 bachelors an peyed taxes on an olive press. A visitor tae the Yirka in the late nineteent century wrote that "cut stanes o auncient appearance hae been uised in biggin the modren hooses. [..] Aboot a hunder cisterns cut in rock, a hauf o which are nae langer uised, an the ither hauf serve for the wants o the fowk, reveal the existence in this place o an auncient locality o some importance." In the Survey o Wastren Palestine, Yarka is describit as a well-biggit stane veelage inhabitit bi 400 Druze who grew olives an figs. The tomb o Sheikh Abu Saraya Ghanem, a Druze releegious scholar is locatit in Yarka. Economy Ane o the lairgest factories in the Middle East, a steel mill biggit an awned bi the Kadmani faimily, is locatit in Yarka. My Baby, wi 11,000 metres o retail space, is Israel's lairgest store for childer's an baby's supplies. The store haes an annual turnower o NIS 100 million. References Bibliografie Freemit airtins Druze Archived 2016-12-27 at the Wayback Machine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org