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), biblical city which gave the Sea of Galilee its Hebrew name; now Tell el-'Oreimeh or Tel Kinrot on the northwestern coast of the lake
- Kinneret College, college south of the Sea of Galilee
- Kinneret Farm, experimental training farm (1908-1949), now museum
- Kinneret Subdistrict, Israel
- Kvutzat Kinneret, kibbutz southwest of the Sea of Galilee
- Moshavat Kinneret, village (moshava) southwest of the Sea of Galilee
- Kinneret Day School, Jewish day school in Riverdale, NY
People
- Kineret (singer), an Orthodox Jewish recording artist
- Kinneret Shiryon (born 1955), Reform rabbi, the first female rabbi in Israel
Other
- Kineret (medication), brand name of anakinra; no direct relation to the lake
- 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 second lake in Syria
- Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir, publishing company, Israel
- Operation Kinneret, another name of the Israeli military Operation Olive Leaves
See also
- All pages with titles containing Kinneret
- All pages with titles containing Kineret
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