Ramat Yishai

Ramat Yishai (Hebrew: רָמַת יִשַּׁי, Jesse's Heights; Arabic: رمات يشاي‎) is a town in the North District of Israel, located on the side of the Haifa–Nazareth road about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) eastern to Kiryat Tivon. It achieved local council status in 1958. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), it had a population of 6,600 in 2010, with a growth rate of 6.3%. The vast majority of the citizens of the village are Jewish.

History

Ottoman era

During the Ottoman era was here a Muslim village called Jeida. The village appeared as Geida on the map which Pierre Jacotin compiled in 1799.

In 1859, the village of Jeida was estimated to have 120 inhabitants, and the tillage was 20 feddans. In 1875 Victor Guérin found rock-cut cisterns here. In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found that Jeida was much like Al-Harithiyah, but with houses of adobe. A spring existed 3/4 of a mile to the west.

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jaida had a total population of 327; 324 Muslims and 3 Christians; of which two were Roman Catholics and one was Melchite.