that changed hands twice in the Battles of the Kinarot Valley, between the Haganah and the Syrian Army. On May 21, 1949, after the Syrian retreat, the Haganah set up a position in Samakh. Walid Khalidi wrote in 1992, that the structure remaining of Samakh was the ruins of the railway station and a water reservoir. The members of Degania Alef kibbutz built a public park, a petrol station, and factories known as the Tzemah Factories on the village site. The Kinneret College is also located there. The kibbutzim Masada and Sha'ar HaGolan were established southeast of the village site in 1937, and have since expanded onto lands within Samakh's former jurisdiction. Both Ma'agan and the nearby kibbutz Tel Katzir were built on Samakh's land in 1949. The kibbutzim Deganya Alef and Deganya Bet are also close to Samakh's location, but not on land that belonged to the village. The Tzemah road junction, between Highway 90, 92 and 98, is next to the site of Samakh; near it are a small water park and a Burger Ranch restaurant. See also Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel References Bibliography (pp. 132, 177, 186, 260, 269, 372) External links Welcome to Samakh Samakh, Zochrot Survey of Western Palestine, Map 6: IAA, Wikimedia commons Samakh, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center Samakh Railway Station Arab villages depopulated prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War District of Tiberias Sea of Galilee