Mateh Asher Regional Council

The Mateh Asher Regional Council (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית מטה אשר, Mo'atza Azorit Mateh Asher) is a regional council in the western Galilee of northern Israel. It is named after the Tribe of Asher which had been allotted the region in antiquity according to the Book of Joshua (19:24–31). It was founded in 1982 as a merger of three regional councils: Ga'aton, Na'aman and Sulam Tzor. The council's offices are located on the east side of Highway 4, between Regba and Lohamei HaGeta'ot.

Mateh Asher מטה אשר‎
Regional council (from 1982)
District	Northern
Government
• Head of Municipality	Moshe Davidovich
Area
• Total	212,150 dunams (212.15 km2 or 81.91 sq mi)
Population  (2014)
• Total	25,800
• Density	120/km2 (310/sq mi)
Website	Official website

The regional council was established in 1982, now stretches over 216,059 dunams and includes some 17,300 residents.^[1] As of 2018, the head of the regional council is Moshe Davidovich and the council's rabbi is Rabbi Shlomo Ben Eliyahu.

List of settlements

This regional council provides municipal services for the populations within its territory, who live in various types of communities including kibbutzim and moshavim, Arab villages, and community and other settlements:

Kibbutzim

Adamit Afek Beit HaEmek Eilon Ein HaMifratz

Evron Ga'aton Gesher HaZiv Hanita Kabri

Kfar Masaryk Lohamei HaGeta'ot Matzuba Rosh HaNikra Sa'ar

Shomrat Yehiam Yas'ur

Moshavim

Ahihud Amka Ben Ami

Bustan HaGalil Betzet

Liman Netiv HaShayara

Regba Shavei Tzion

Community settlements and villages

• Klil
• Nes Ammim
• Oshrat

Arab villages

• Arab al-Aramshe
• Sheikh Danun

Demographics

In 2022, 82% of the population was Jewish, 15.2% was Muslim, 0.1% was Christian and 2.7% was counted as other.^[2]

Twin towns

Mateh Asher is twin towns with following cities and districts:^[3]

• (in German): Oldenburg, since 1996