Geva
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Gevaş ( ; ) is a municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,544 km 2 , and its population is 26,918 (2022). In the last elections of March 2019, Murat Sezer from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected Mayor. As Kaymakam, Hamit Genç was appointed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoĝan in July 2019. The municipality is populated by Kurds.
Geva ( , lit. Hill) is a kibbutz in the Jezreel Valley in Israel. Located near the city of Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
Geva was founded in 19211 by Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia as the second and third wave of immigration. The community was targeted during the 1929 Palestine Riots in August of that year, and destroyed by fire. By 19481 it had a population of 439, which had grown to 506 at the end of 1951. The Gevatron singing troupe was established by members of Geva in 1948. It recorded over 20 albums. At the peak of its popularity in the 1980s, the troupe appeared at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv before an audience of 120,000. It collaborated with some of Israel's leading singers, among them Yoram Gaon, Shoshana Damari and Yehudit Ravitz. In 1972, the Gevatron won the David's Harp prize, in 1992 it won the Histadrut prize, and in 2008, it won the Israel Prize.
Notable people
Shimon Peres (1923–2016), former Israeli prime minister and president
References
External links
Official website
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