Editing Givat HaMoreh (section)

==History==
===Hebrew Bible===
The "hill of Moreh" is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible three times, in {{bibleverse|Genesis|12:6}}, {{bibleverse|Deuteronomy|11:30}} and [[Judges 7:1]].

The [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] phrase ''elon moreh'' ({{bibleverse|Genesis|12:6a}}) has been subject to various [[English translations of the bible|translations]] in English versions of the Bible. Translators who consider ''elon moreh'' to be the name of a locality, render it as "the plain(s) of Moreh", e.g. [[King James Version]] and the [[Geneva Bible]], but translators who consider the term to refer to a sacred tree or grove often render it as "[[terebinth]]" (''[[Pistacia terebinthus]]''), a tree which is notable for its size and age in dry landscapes of the region. For example, the [[New International Version]] translation of Genesis 12:6a reads:
:"[[Abraham|Abram]] traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at [[Shechem]]"
and the [[New King James Version]] translates Deuteronomy 11:30 as:
:"Are they ([[Mount Gerizim]] and [[Mount Ebal]]) not on the other side of the [[Jordan River|Jordan]], toward the setting sun, in the land of the [[Canaanites]] who dwell in the plain opposite [[Gilgal]], beside the terebinth trees of Moreh?"

"Moreh" is often understood to mean "teacher" or "oracle", referring to the owner of the tree or the land on which it grew.

Genesis 35:4:
:"And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which [were] in their hand, and [all their] earrings which [were] in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which [was] by Shechem."
A neutral reading discovers that the tree, oak or not, grew above buried idols and dedicated treasure, the Hebrews remembered, and they associated the burial of these things with the [[patriarchal age]].

[[John Wesley]] noted that the plains of Moreh was one of the first places that Abram came to in Canaan, so when Moses sent the incoming [[Israelites]] to this place "to hear the blessing and the curse, they were minded of the promise made to Abram in that very place".<ref>[http://wesley.nnu.edu/john-wesley/john-wesleys-notes-on-the-bible/notes-on-the-fifth-book-of-moses-called-deuteronomy/#Chapter%2BXI John Wesley's Notes on the Bible] on Deuteronomy 11:30, accessed 25 November 2015</ref>

===Ottoman period===
A 19th-century travelogue identifies Moreh as Nebi Dahi, south of Mount Tabor.<ref>[https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/tales-world-tour/chapter-10-holy-land-june-1896-july-1896 Tales from the World Tour]: The 1895-1897 Travel Writings of Mormon Historian Andrew Jenson. Chapter 10: The Holy Land, June 1896–July 1896. Brigham Young University, the Religious Studies Center. Accessed July 2020.</ref>

===British Mandate and State of Israel===
In the 20th century, in the valley below the mountain, the city of [[Afula]] (est. 1925) was developed as the main Jewish center of the region. Afula gradually expanded from the plains to the slopes of Giv'at ha-Moreh.<ref name=Alon/> During the [[1948 Palestine war|War of Independence]] in 1948, the area was completely dominated by Israeli forces, but local Arab population was not displaced. The Arab villages of [[Ed Dahi|Dahi]] and [[Nein]] are located on the slope.

On the central part of Giv'at ha-Moreh there is a [[National parks and nature reserves of Israel|nature reserve]], partly wooded developed by  the [[Jewish National Fund]]. The [[Iris bismarckiana|Nazareth Iris]] blooms here in spring.<ref name=Alon/>