Kinneret Explained

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