Zarzir

This article is about the town in Israel. For the village in northern Syria, see Zarzur.

Zarzir (Arabic: زرزير, Hebrew: זַרְזִיר), also known as Beit Zarzir, is an Arab local council located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west of the city of Nazareth in the Northern District of Israel. In 2023, it had a population of 9,044,^[1] consisting of five Bedouin tribes, Mazarib, Grifat, Haib, Jawamis, and Eyadat.

Zarzir זַרְזִיר‎ زرزير
Local council (from 1997)
Hebrew transcription(s)
• ISO 259	Zarzir
• Also spelled	Bet Zarzir (official)
Council headquarters
Zarzir
Coordinates: 32°43′38″N 35°13′29″E
Country	Israel
District	Northern
Area
• Total	3,889 dunams (3.889 km2 or 1.502 sq mi)
Population  (2023)[1]
• Total	9,044
• Density	2,300/km2 (6,000/sq mi)

Monument to the Bedouin Soldier

A few kilometres away, at HaMovil Junction, there is a memorial to the Bedouin soldiers of the IDF killed since 1948, 230 of them by 2022.^[2] The Monument to the Bedouin Soldier (sometimes translated a Fighter or Warrior), established at a site close to Bedouin and other Israeli Arab towns, was inaugurated on Independence Day in 1993 by then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.^[2] The memorial includes a museum of Bedouin heritage and a garden with medicinal herbs.^[2]

See also

• Arab localities in Israel
• Israeli Bedouin