Yokneam is a moshava in the Northern District of Israel. Located on the outskirts of the city of Yokneam Illit on the border of the Jezreel Valley and the Menashe Heights, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Megiddo Regional Council and is administrated by a local committee which is elected every five years. In 2022 it had a population of 1,382.
Yokneam Moshava
Tel Yokneam archaeological site.
Yehoshua Hankin planting a tree in the Jezreel Valley.
Yokneam 1937
A moshava was a form of agricultural Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel region, established by the members of the Old Yishuv beginning in the late 1870s and during the first two waves of Jewish Zionist immigration – the First and Second Aliyah.
Gedera, before 1899
Yokneam (moshava)
Yavne'el (moshava)
Great Synagogue of Rishon LeZion, founded in 1885 (photo c. 1910–1924)