The City of Crookston is seeking individuals willing to serve as election judges at the 2016 General Election (November 8th). Election judges are reimbursed for their time. For questions or to obtain an application form, please contact Angie Menge or Angel Weasner at 218-281-4503.
At 209 meters below sea level, it is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth, and the second lowest lake in the world after the Dead Sea, a saltwater lake. It is not a real sea - it is called a sea because of tradition. The lake is also known on modern maps as Lake Galilee or Lake Tiberias, in the region of Galilee. In modern Hebrew, it is known as Yam Kinneret (info â¢ help) (×× ×× ×¨×ª), Sea of Kinnereth (Numbers 34:11; Joshua 13:27).
Israel Fact. The Sea of Galilee is shaped like a harp, kinnor in Hebrew, but this is not where the name of the lake comes from. Israelis call the Sea by the biblical name Kinneret. This was the name of a city on the northwestern edge of the lake during the Canaanite and Israelite periods.bout six miles north of Tiberias, you can visit Kibbutz Ginosar, the former home of one of Israel's great statesmen, Yigal Allon. The kibbutz has a museum devoted to Allon's life and the history of the Galilee region.