Mateh Asher Regional Council


The Mateh Asher Regional Council is a regional council in the western Galilee of northern Israel. It is named after the Tribe of Asher, which had been allotted the region in antiquity according to the Book of Joshua. It was founded in 1982 as a merger of three regional councils: Ga'aton, Na'aman, and Sulam Tzor. The council's offices are located on the east side of Highway 4, between Regba and Lohamei HaGeta'ot.
The regional council was established in 1982, now stretches over 216,059 dunams and includes some 17,300 residents. As of 2018, the head of the regional council is Moshe Davidovich and the council's rabbi is Rabbi Shlomo Ben Eliyahu.

List of settlements

This regional council provides municipal services for the populations within its territory, who live in various types of communities, including kibbutzim and moshavim, Arab villages, and community and other settlements:

Kibbutzim

Moshavim

Community settlements and villages

Arab villages

Demographics

In 2022, 82% of the population was Jewish, 15.2% was Muslim, 0.1% was Christian, and 2.7% was counted as other.

Twin towns

Mateh Asher is twin towns with following cities and districts: