Qiryat Tiv'on

Qiryat Tiv'on is a city in the Haifa District of Israel, within the hills between the Zvulun and Jezreel valleys. Kiryat Tiv'on is located 15 kilometres southeast of Haifa, on the main road to Nazareth. Kiryat Tiv'on is the end result of the municipal merger of numerous older settlements, Tiv'on, Elro'i, Kiryat HaRoshet and Kiryat Amal.

On the outskirts of Tiv'on is a Bedouin township referred to as Basmat Tab'un. In 2017 it had a population of 17,717. In 1859, the village of Tubaun became expected to have a tillage of twenty-two feddans. In 1875, Victor Guerin located that the village had 200 inhabitants. In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described Tubaun as a small adobe village, on excessive ground, at the threshold of the wood. A population list from about 1887 confirmed that Tuba'un had approximately 90 population; all Muslims. The 1922 census of Palestine showed that Tub'un had 151 population, all Muslim. In 1925 a Zionist enterprise purchased 30 feddans in Kiskis and Tabon from the Sursuk circle of relatives of Beirut. At the time, there were 36 households dwelling there.