
Irit Amit-CohenBar Ilan University | BIU · Department of Geography and the Environment
Irit Amit-Cohen
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Conservation, Planning and Development of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Ldscape
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Global changes and trends have been greatly influencing the way cultural tourism is defined, operated, and developed. These changes require the creation of new measurement and management tools. Given the diverse nature of cultural tourism, one of the most pertaining obstacles hindering its sustainable development is that the required relevant infor...
The primary focus of this book is to introduce an inventory of proposed cultural landscapes in Israel that have been identified, researched, and mapped by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority. The first step of identifying cultural landscapes in Israel was based on adapting the definitions developed in the international conventions to the Israeli...
Israeli cultural landscapes are highly diverse and reflect a long and complex settlement history. From the ancient sites associated with some of the earliest agricultural practices in the world to those intimately bound up with the world’s three major monotheistic traditions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—these landscapes hold a distinctive place...
Since its establishment, Israel has produced a series of plans that have shaped the country’s built environment, infrastructure, and landscapes. The protection of cultural landscapes cannot be understood without a preliminary understanding of the Israeli statutory planning context. This chapter will present the institutional framework that has shap...
This chapter presents a list of fifty cultural landscapes in Israel that were identified, researched, and mapped by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority. They are organized according to the following classification: properties inscribed on the World Heritage List, properties noted on the World Heritage Tentative List, Cultural Landscapes with Nati...
Over the last decade, the significance of cultural landscapes has become more widely understood and accepted in Israel. Population growth, pressure on the land and accelerated development, growing concern about diminishing landscape resources, and fear of damage to cultural assets all led to the recognition that natural landscape and cultural herit...
As landscapes are inherently dynamic, the protection of cultural landscapes depends upon a management framework to guide change in the landscape while retaining important values “for present and future generations” (UNESCO, Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention, Paris: UNESCO World Heritage Centre. https://w...
The proposed cultural landscapes in Israel are classified according to the categories defined in the Operational Guidelines of the World Heritage Convention (UNESCO, Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention, 2021). In 1972, UNESCO recognized the “combined works of nature and man” with the adoption of the Conven...
Under the Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic in Israel, almost every taken-for-granted feature of the day-to-day life was affected. This phenomenon and its derived socio-economic effects on cultural tourism have been investigated in a northern peripheral area, Beit She’an Valley, which includes a small urban municipality, Beit She’an town, and a region...
IAP Yehoshua Hankin had two loves: love for his wife Olga, many years his senior, and a love for the land. The two competed with each other, but he never preferred one over the other. Displayed for the reader, against the backdrop of the atmosphere in the Land of Israel toward the close of the Ottoman period and into that of the British Mandate, is...
Business entrepreneurship among rural households in Israel is a relatively new phenomenon, which is spreading rapidly and is a key component of the economic and social development of rural areas. Nevertheless, the government of Israel has no consistent policy on this issue, in part because of the unique legal frameworks that apply to most of the ru...
This paper examines what veteran Moshav members and officials perceive to be the causes of the weakening of cooperation in Moshavim (pl. of Moshav). Veteran Moshavim are those established before the founding of the state of Israel. The findings are based on a sample of 192 Moshav households in eight veteran Moshavim in different parts of Israel as...
Integrated rural heritage landscapes: the case of agricultural cooperative settlements and open space in Israel
Irit Amit Cohen and Michael Sofer
amitcoi@biu.ac.il; soferm1@biu.ac.il
Abstract
Progressing development trends threaten the continued existence of open space, natural resources and cultural heritage sites in rural areas. These trends are...
In the current study, the use of thermal remote sensing to detect irrigation-system malfunctions in olive orchards and table grape vineyards was evaluated. In the first part of the study, irrigation malfunctions were simulated. In the olive orchard, where deficit irrigation is routinely applied, both simulated leaks and clogs were detected. In grap...
Today there is no systematic way to identify and locate failures of irrigation
systems mainly because of the labor costs associated with locating the failures.
The general aim of this study was to develop an airborne thermal imaging system
for semi - automatic monitoring and mapping of irrigation system failures,
specifically, of leaks and clogs.
D...
Irit Amit-Cohen. Values and Sites; Cultural Heritage in the Kibbutz
The kibbutz, with its concepts of "yard", "place" and "home" is signifying an enclosed area encompassing social, cultural, economic, organizational and physical entities. These components are interrelated and the relationship between them creates a uniqueness that distinguishes th...
Advertising acts as a mirror of society, reflecting its values, norms and preferences. Therefore, the widespread use of signs and symbols that represent landscape values in advertising may be regarded as expressing prevailing preferences of the public. This paper examines evidence supporting this claim, based on a study of 85 full-page promotional...
The author explores the riddle behind disappearing citrus orchards and plantations from Israel's coastal scenery. The book reveals the biographies of entrepreneurs who came to Palestine in 1920s and 1930s. Exposing the uniqueness of the plantation companies, describing the figures involved in them and analayzing their contribution to forming Palest...
Mediation refers to an informal process in which a neutral third party helps parties in conflict attain an agreement which they were unable to reach on their own. It is mainly used to solve social, economic and political problems, but its characteristics allow using it to resolve also environmental disputes. The purpose of this article is to examin...
Developers are entrepreneurs that initiate and carry out land development projects. They play an active dominant and leading role in land use planning decisions, and are, therefore, expected to have a significant impact on patterns of development and open space conservation. The present study identified correlations between characteristics of devel...
Until the 1990s Israel was implementing a strict agricultural land preservation policy program, rooted in Zionist ideology. This was changed when shifts in Israeli planning and land policy towards the end of the 20th century brought about accelerated growth and sprawling development in agricultural lands at the urban–rural fringe, particularly in t...
The aim of this chapter is to describe the motivation to develop a knowledge-based spatial decision support system (KB-SDSS) for medfly control in citrus in Israel, its development approach and procedure, its validation, and the steps towards its assimilation among the zone-managers. Development of the KB-SDSS for medfly control in Israel, also kno...
The aim of this chapter is to describe the motivation to develop a knowledge-based spatial decision support system (KB-SDSS) for medfly control in citrus in Israel, its development approach and procedure, its validation, and the steps towards its assimilation among the zone-managers. Development of the KB-SDSS for medfly control in Israel, also kno...
Riparian landscapes are natural habitats of unique ecological, environmental and scenic values, which are highly sensitive to human intervention and impact. Yet, due to their qualities, and especially the presence of water, they are also usually attractive for recreation purposes. This is more so in arid and semi-arid zones like Israel. Nevertheles...
The optimum path found by the least‐cost path (LCP) method is determined by the cost surface as well as the distance. In environmental applications it is not desirable that distance makes a significant impact. Instead, the decision maker seeks for the LCP that reflects the environmental cost surface. However, in most studies this impact is overlook...
Riparian landscapes are natural habitats of unique ecological and scenic values, which are highly sensitive to human intervention and impact. Yet, due to their qualities, and especially the presence of water, they are also usually attractive for recreation purposes. This is more so in arid and semi-arid zones like Israel. Nevertheless, in the past,...
The performance evaluation of a spatial decision support system (SDSS) for medfly control in citrus in Israel, known as ‘MedCila’, is described. The performance was evaluated by considering four aspects: verification, validation, acceptance and effectiveness. For the performance evaluation of MedCila, a representative set of 420 real cases was coll...
In November 20th 2007 Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality confirmed its list of buildings earmarked for conservation. The confirmation was related only to Tel Aviv cultural heritage, the city that was founded in 1909, along the Mediterranean seashore, next to old Jaffa. The list was published 4years after part of the old urban center of Tel Aviv was nomina...
Land use planning systems, worldwide and in Israel, are now taking into account environmental, social, economic and cultural developments. These systems are intended to solve issues related to the conflict between developmental requirements and the need to preserve cultural and natural resources. The importance of open spaces is increasingly recogn...
In the course of the last 50years, the landscape in Israel has undergone major changes, due to accelerated urbanization following
population growth. These processes had increased the pressure on the open land, especially in areas of urban expansion. Recognizing
that Governments and local Municipalities had failed to stop the consequent loss of publ...
The old urban center of Tel Aviv, like other urban centers in the western world, is undergoing accelerated development processes. Together with the trend towards gentrification are processes of urban renewal and infrastructure development and increasing demand for land and buildings, all of which increase the value of the land. The difference betwe...
במחצית השנייה של שנות העשרים ובמהלך שנות השלושים של המאה העשרים פעלו בארץ-ישראל משקיעים בעלי הון רב שלא התיישבו בה אבל הקימו בה חברות מטעים גדולות, רכשו קרקע ופיתחו בערים הגדולות מפעלי מסחר, בניין ותעשייה. המשקיעים ביקשו לסייע ליהודים להתיישב בארץ-ישראל, ואילו חיים וייצמן ביקש למשוך בעלי הון אלה להשקיע בארץ ולעודד באמצעותם את פיתוחה הכלכלי, ובה בעת...
The present research will present the private entrepreneurs' characteristics and personality traits; it will describe a group of Jews who encouraged the development of Palestine during the interwar period. But at the same time, this presentation cannot ignore a survey of the entrepreneur's background and milieu - the environment he grew up in and t...
Cultural Heritage and Cultural Landscape are a set of human products that reflect the society needs thoughts and memories. It represents and symbolizes the relationships of power and controls - out of which it has emerged - and the human processes that have transformed and continue to transform them. These transformations create new cultural landsc...