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New York Mills, named for the textile factories that were once the backbone of the surrounding villages economy, ranked among the foremost producers of quality fabrics in the country. Originally a wilderness area just south of the Mohawk River, the community began with a few scattered homes after the establishment of a small textile mill in 1808.
Metropolitan area Country Number % of Jews out of total population Tel Aviv Israel 3,891,000 94.8 New York City United States 2,109,300 10.8 Jerusalem Israel 992,800 72.3
Kiryas Joel ( Yiddish: קרית יואל, romanized : Kiryas Yoyel, Yiddish pronunciation: [ˈkɪr.jəs ˈjɔɪ.əl]; often locally abbreviated as KJ) is a village coterminous with the Town of Palm Tree in Orange County, New York, United States. The village shares one government with the Town. The vast majority of its residents are Yiddish ...
The Israeli border with Egypt is the international border demarcated in 1906 between the United Kingdom and the Ottoman Empire, and confirmed in the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty; the Israeli border with Jordan is based on the border defined in the 1922 Trans-Jordan memorandum, and confirmed in the 1994 Israel–Jordan peace treaty.
Saratoga County is a county in the U.S. state of New York, and is the fastest-growing county in Upstate New York. [4] As of the 2020 U.S. census, the county's population was enumerated at 235,509, [1] its highest decennial count ever and a 7.2% increase from the 219,607 recorded at the 2010 census, [5] representing one of the fastest growth rates in the northeastern United States; and despite ...
The geography of Israel is very diverse, with desert conditions in the south, and snow -capped mountains in the north. Israel is located at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea in West Asia. [ 1] It is bounded to the north by Lebanon, the northeast by Syria, the east by Jordan and the West Bank, and to the southwest by Egypt. [ 1]
The term 'Land of Israel' (γῆ Ἰσραήλ) occurs in one episode in the New Testament (Matthew 2:20–21), where, according to Shlomo Sand, it bears the unusual sense of 'the area surrounding Jerusalem'. [19] The section in which it appears was written as a parallel to the earlier Book of Exodus. [21]
New York Mills was founded in 1884 by Finnish immigrants. Major industries include agriculture (row crops, grain and dairy farming), Lund Boat Company fishing boat manufacturers, and a variety of service professions. Tourism is an increasingly important economic factor in the area; Otter Tail County contains 1,048 of the state's lakes,