Kahal
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Kahal | |
|---|---|
| Country | Israel |
| Council | Mevo'ot HaHermon |
| Region | Galilee |
| Founded | 1980 |
| Population (2012) | 304[1] |
Kahal (Template:Lang-he-n) is a moshav in the Galilee near Highway 85 in northern Israel. The moshav is a combined agricultural community. It lies at the border of the Upper Galilee and Lower Galilee, north of Lake Kinneret and just northwest of Tabgha. It belongs to the Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council and was established in 1980.
The Kahal system
The kahal was a form of local ethnic administration of Russian Jews in Russia. Jews were governed by the kahal system - a system of Jewish laws and traditions. This meant that Jews were not governed by Russian laws in civil matters but by Jewish religious and traditional laws. Just like Muslims were governed by Muslim law, and highlanders in the Caucasus mountains were governed by mountain law, Jews were governed by their own law, not Russian general law.
References
- ^ "Locality File" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 2012. Retrieved October 30, 2013.
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