1. A process is currently underway to locate a suitable candidate for the role of the Kinneret Academic College on the Jordan Valley (Registered Association).
2. Definition of the role: the College’s President bears the responsible towards the general council of the College as well as towards the board of directors of the College, for all matters regarding for administering the institution, including: all its level and quality; the college’s academic level; and fulfillment of roles by each authority and position holder in the college and association which are within the academic and administrative structure.
3. The position’s designated commencement date is October 2022.
4. The College’s President will be employed by the College in a full time position (at least 4 days per week) and the college will constitute her or his sole place of employment.
5. Initial requirements (threshold conditions) for the role include:
   1. Prior experience in academic management of an institution of higher education.
   2. Professor of senior academic standing.
6. The role requires high personal capabilities which will allow coordinating and create work liaisons with institutions, government organizations, Israeli and international donors.
7. Candidates may submit a résumé up to 1 June 2022 in WORD format, ONLY to this email address: resum1@kinneret.ac.il

The submission must note “Application for the Role of College’s President.” The résumé must contain the following information:

• General details/
• Overall and academic education, including degrees, appointments and certifications (if any).
• Public positions filled or currently being filled (if any).
• Prior experience in academic management in an institution of higher education.
• Additional information which the candidate assumes the may be of relevant.

8. Applications which uphold the initial requirements (threshold conditions) will be forwarded to the Search Committee which will examine each candidate’s suitability for the role in accordance with the requirements and other parameters as may be defined, while relating to the future goals facing the next President, including realizing the College’s objectives, particularly the master plan as set by its institutions, including academic and managerial aspects, while advancing college infrastructures and all relevant aspects.
9. Candidates found by the Search Committee to be the most suitable will be invited for personal meetings with the committee. On reaching its conclusion relative to the most appropriate candidate, the Search Committee will convey its recommendations.
10. For clarifications and to convey details please use this email address only: resum1@kinneret.ac.il up to 1 June 2022.
11. We recommend checking the college website for updates (if any). The Search Committee is authorized to periodically consolidate various issues related to locating and / or changing the parameters via a Call for Proposals (including altering the threshold conditions, providing extensions, etc.)
12. It is hereby clarified that the search is not being conducted as a tender and Tender Laws do not apply to it. The Call for Proposals does not obligate the college to act in any manner whatsoever, and the college reserves the right to change any of the conditions and / or stages of the search procedure and / or all of them and / or halt the search procedure at any stage and appoint a suitable candidate without and / or despite the search procedure, based on its considerations.

On September 25, 1918, 102 year ago, an important battle was fought between the Australian light cavalry forces and Imperial Germany’s troops along with their Ottoman allies for the control of Samakh (modern day Tzemach), a key strategic point located on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee, just outside Tiberias.

The results of the battle had the potential to shift the power balance in the Middle Eastern theater during World War I, since the town of Samakh controlled the most direct route to Damascus, which was part of the Ottoman Empire. Also, a series of railroad lines, which were part of the Ottoman lines of communication, ran through the town.

Kinneret Academic College will commemorate the events of that day later on this month by holding an official ceremony with the anticipated participation of the Australian Defense Attaché, as well as other dignitaries.

Israelis are already imagining a new tourist destination, with luxury hotels in the Emirates, but interesting possibilities have also opened up for incoming tourism.

Dr. Eran Ketter, a consultant and a researcher in tourism in the Tourism and Hotel Management Department at Kinneret Academic College, said. “The establishment of relations between Israel and the UAE is not just a political and diplomatic opportunity, but also an aviation and tourism opportunity. Emirates has a wide range of destinations in Asia, including in India, China and Japan, that facilitate improved access to main business centers. For tourism and leisure, Emirates can offer convenient, fast access to main touring and vacation destinations such as Thailand, India, Vietnam, the Philippines, and the Maldives. All this by flying eastwards, without the need for roundabout routes via regional airports such as Istanbul and Frankfurt that serve Israel today.”

“Another way in which the establishment of relations is important,” says Ketter, “is in

opening the Israeli market to incoming tourism from the Gulf states, thereby starting to

realize Israel’s potential for Muslim pilgrimage tourism, known as ‘halal tourism’. Israel has

several important tourist sites, such as Jerusalem, Acre, and Hebron, social and cultural ties

with the Islamic world, and tourism infrastructure well adapted to tourists whose language

is Arabic and who strictly observe Islamic law.”

Several recently discovered milestones, some carrying inscriptions, have offered new insights into the incense route that crossed the Negev during antiquity, connecting the southern part of the Arabic peninsula to Gaza via Petra.

Dr. Chaim Ben David from Kinneret College’s Land of Israel Studies Department and Prof. Benjamin Isaac from Tel Aviv University’s Department of Classics, have said even before the latest discoveries, “milestones are known only from the Roman period, and in the entire Nabataean realm, from Arabia through southern Jordan, not a single stretch of wide, built road with milestones is known in a Nabataean context – i.e., pre-106 CE.” Only three milestones from before that year were found in Jordan and Israel.

The previously unknown section of the incense route was unearthed in 2018 west of the eastern range of Mount Grafon. Two milestones were found along it on the occasion, and several others were uncovered in later surveys of the itinerary.

“The area of the mountainous Upper Galilee remains very much a mystery,” Dr. Hayah Katz, a senior lecturer at Kinneret Academic College’s Kinneret Department of Land of Israel Studies said, “With the one exception of Tel Rosh, no excavation has even been conducted in the region, but only some archaeological surveys.” In a paper recently published in the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, she analyzed the results of these surveys, as well as of the salvage dig in the 1970s by the Israel Department of Antiquities. They exposed the remains of the fortress, which Katz had the opportunity to excavate last year

Based on the findings, she proposes a new way of looking at the issue: the existence of a previously unknown local power, whose population, or at least part of it, would later become part of the Kingdom of Israel.

“… I believe that the fortress has to be dated to a period between the 11th and the first half of the 10th century and not later, while previously it was believed to have been erected any time between the 11th and the ninth century [BCE],” Katz said. “Moreover, in my opinion, the fortress was part of a distinct local entity, even though we do not know its name. At the time, there were several political entities in the area of the land of Israel, including Saul’s Kingdom and Geshur around the Sea of Galilee.” All the rural villages surrounding the Mount Adir fortress were part of this power, Katz said.

“I think that later the population of these villages, many of them refugees from the Canaanite city of Hazor, which had been destroyed, will become part of the Israelites, who, in my view, part of them were not a population coming from abroad, but rather a mixture of local groups” she said. The pottery unearthed in the area also backs a mixture of Canaanite, Phoenician and even Cypriot influences, Katz said. The hope is that further research in the area will be able to shed more light on the mysterious kingdom and the questions surrounding the region.

On September 25th 2018, The Historic Semakh Railway Station commemorates 100 years since the Australian Light Horse cavalry battle for the station and the end of World War 1 in Israel.

The Australian Light Horse Charge Before Dawn , over unknown terrain, is unique in modern cavalry history.

Today, the Historic Semakh Railway Station is part of the Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee and houses a notable visitor’s center, memorial grove to the Australian Soldiers and B.A. and M.A. courses in Israel Studies.