Editing Tiberias (section)

===State of Israel===
[[File:Dover tverya17.jpg|thumb|Tiberias and the [[Sea of Galilee]]]]
[[File:PikiWiki Israel 69028 the tomb of rabbi meir the miracle owner.jpg|thumb|Tomb of [[Rabbi Meir|Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes]]]]
[[File:PikiWiki Israel 11886 house in galilee street tiberias.jpg|thumb|Black basalt buildings in Tiberias]]
The city of Tiberias has been almost entirely Jewish since 1948. Many [[Sephardic]] and [[Mizrahi Jews|Mizrahi]] Jews settled in the city, following the [[Jewish exodus from Arab countries]] in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Over time, government housing was built to accommodate much of the new population, like in many other [[development town]]s.

In 1959, during [[Wadi Salib riots]], the "''Union des Nords-africains'' led by David Ben Haroush, organised a large-scale procession walking towards the nice suburbs of [[Haifa]] creating little damage but a great fear within the population. This small incident was taken as an occasion to express the social malaise of the different [[Mizrahi Jews in Israel|Oriental communities in Israel]] and riots spread quickly to other parts of the country; mostly in towns with a high percentage of the population having North African origins like in Tiberias, in [[Beer-Sheva]], in [[Migdal HaEmek|Migdal-Haemek]]".<ref>{{cite web|author=Jeremy Allouche|title=The Oriental Communities in Israel 1948-2003|url=http://doczz.fr/doc/96608/the-oriental-communities-in-israel--1948-2003|page=35|access-date=2017-12-24|archive-date=2017-12-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224214338/http://doczz.fr/doc/96608/the-oriental-communities-in-israel--1948-2003|url-status=live}}</ref>

Over time, the city came to rely on tourism, becoming a major Galilean center for [[Christian pilgrims]] and internal Israeli tourism. The ancient cemetery of Tiberias and its old synagogues are also drawing religious Jewish pilgrims during religious holidays.<ref>M.Gilbert, p.566, 578</ref>

Tiberias consists of a small port on the shores of Galilee lake for both fishing and tourist activities. Since the 1990s, the importance of the port for fishing was gradually decreasing, with the decline of the Tiberias lake level, due to continuing droughts and increased pumping of fresh water from the lake. It was expected that the lake of Tiberias will regain its original level (almost {{convert|6|m|ft|abbr=off}} higher than today), with the full operational capacity of Israeli desalination facilities by 2014. In 2020, the lake raised above the level it was in 1990.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://kineret.org.il/miflasim/?fromdate=1989-01-10&todate=2023-08-10&maxmiflas=-208&minmiflas=-215&Frequency=daily&submitGraph=+%D7%94%D7%A6%D7%92+%D7%90%D7%AA+%D7%94%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%A3+#graph |url-status=live |archive-date=2023-08-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810143054/https://kineret.org.il/miflasim/?fromdate=1989-01-10&todate=2023-08-10&maxmiflas=-208&minmiflas=-215&Frequency=daily&submitGraph=+%D7%94%D7%A6%D7%92+%D7%90%D7%AA+%D7%94%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%A3+ |website=kineret.org.il |language=he |access-date=10 August 2023 |title=מפלס הכינרת}}</ref> 

In 2012, plans were announced for a new ultra-Orthodox neighborhood, Kiryat Sanz, on a slope on the western side of the Kinneret.<ref>[http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/new-ultra-orthodox-neighborhood-to-be-built-in-israel-s-north-1.422255 New ultra-Orthodox neighborhood to be built in Israel's north] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120518170344/http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/new-ultra-orthodox-neighborhood-to-be-built-in-israel-s-north-1.422255 |date=2012-05-18}}, Apr. 3, 2012, Haaretz</ref>