Sharona (Hebrew: שׂרוֹנָה /saˈʁona/, but publicized in English as /ʃəˈɹoʊnə/) is a moshav in the Lower Galilee Regional Council, Israel.
In the early 13th century, the geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi described Sârûniyyah as "a pass near Tabariyya, you go up it to reach At Tûr".
Incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, Sharona appeared under the name of Saruniyya in the 1596 tax registers as being in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Tabariyya under the Liwa of Safad. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 17 households. They paid taxes on wheat, barley, occasional revenues, goats and beehives; a total of 3592 Akçe.
A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin showed the place, though unnamed.
In 1875, Victor Guérin visited Sarona and noted:
In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine noted "basaltic stone houses, containing about 250 Moslems, situated in arable plain, without trees."
According to Avneri, Sarona was settled by Circassian refugees from the Caucasus in 1878, but by 1910 they had moved elsewhere and had been replaced by Arabs. The land was purchased from the Arabs by the Jewish Colonization Association in 1910.
Sharona is a given name for a female. In particular it may refer to:
music: Hast & CHARON, lyrics: Leppäluoto
THE FALL HAS COME TO HURT, BELOVED I WAS SOMETIMES DOWNHEARTED
THE HATE INSIDE MY HEAD SPEAKS
THE FALSE, UNTRUE DISGUISE BETRAY
MY LIFE IS OPEN WIDE
DECISION COMES IN TIME
EASY FOR YOU TONIGHT TO DIE
TAKE MY HEART
EASY FOR YOU TONIGHT TO CRY
TAKE MY LIFE
THE WORDS I KEPT INSIDE, ALL LIES
REVEALED TO SEE DAYLIGHT
THESE WOUNDS I TRIED TO HIDE
INSIDE WHERE ALL ELSE DIES
AND THE FALL CAME BEATIN` MAN TO GROUND
AND THE SORROW CHEATIN` HER TO BLEED