Menahemia

Menahemia Template:Hebrew
Hebrew transcription(s)
• standard	Menahemya
Country	Israel
Council	Valley of Springs
Founded	1901
Population  (2008)	979

Menahemia (Template:Lang-he-n) is a village in the Jordan Valley in north-eastern Israel. Located near Highway 90 between Beit She'an and Tzemah Junction around 5 km south of Tzemah, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. With an area of 6,000 dunams, the village had a population of 1,000 in 2007.

The village was established on December 23–26, 1901 as a moshava under the name Milhamiaby the five first families on land purchased in southern Jordan Valley, and was the first Jewish settlement of its time. It was renamed Menahemia in 1921 after the father of High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel.

It had its own local council from 1951 onwards, but on 1 January 2006 jurisdiction over the village was transferred to Beit She'an Valley Regional Council.

Menahemia established homes – regional pharmacies before the First World War. Established a quarry, where they quarried raw materials for the "Nesher" factory near Haifa, the quarry also provided work for the early stage kibbutzim in the Jordan Valley. A gypsum manufacturing plant was also established, and provided work for residents Menahemia. There also existed a museum for the Medical History of the region, and the history of Menahemia and Naharayim.