Kinneret is the English transliteration for Kineret, the Hebrew name of the Sea of Galilee, the largest freshwater lake in Israel.

Other meanings of Kinneret and Kineret include:

Places

  • Camp Kinneret, a summer camp of Canadian Young Judaea
  • Kinneret (archaeological site), a biblical city which gave the Sea of Galilee its Hebrew name; now Tell el-'Oreimeh or Tel Kinrot
  • Kinneret Farm, an experimental training farm (1908-1949), now a museum
  • Kinneret Subdistrict, Israel
  • Kvutzat Kinneret, a kibbutz southwest of the Sea of Galilee
  • Moshavat Kinneret, a village (moshava) southwest of the Sea of Galilee

People

  • Kinneret Keren (born 1972), Israeli biophysicist and nanotechnologist
  • Kinneret Shiryon (born 1955), Reform rabbi, the first female rabbi in Israel
  • Kinneret Wallach (born c. 1973), Israeli former wheelchair tennis and basketball player
  • Kineret (singer), Orthodox Jewish singer, songwriter and producer Kineret Sarah Cohen (born 1970)

Other uses

  • Kinneret College, a college south of the Sea of Galilee
  • Kinneret Day School, a Jewish day school in Riverdale, New York, United States
  • Kineret (medication), brand name of anakinra; no direct relation to the lake
  • Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir, publishing company, Israel
  • Kinneret, Israeli song based on Rachel Bluwstein's poem "Perhaps" ("Ve'Ulai")
  • Kinneret bream or Kinneret bleak, Acanthobrama terraesanctae, fish endemic to the Sea of Galilee and a lake in Syria
  • Operation Kinneret, another name for the Israeli military Operation Olive Leaves

See also

  • Ginosar (disambiguation), a toponym which apparently evolved from "Kinneret"

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