The Hula Valley is a topographic depression forming a valley and fertile agricultural region in northern Israel, once fed by abundant fresh water and partly covered by marshland and the shallow Lake Hula. The wetlands were drained in the 1950s to control the mosquito-borne malaria they bred, and a small section was later reflooded to revive the nearly vanished ecosystem. The valley now serves as a major stopover on the Great Rift Valley flyway, with an estimated 500 million migrating birds passing through it each year between Africa, Europe and Asia.
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The Hula Valley (Hebrew: עֵמֶק הַחוּלָה, romanized: ʿEmeq haḤūlā; Arabic: سهل الحولة, romanized: Sahl al-Ḥūlat) is a topographic depression forming a valley and fertile agricultural region in northern Israel with abundant fresh water that used to be part covered by marshland and Lake Hula.
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