New Castle County, Delaware state by area. It has more people than the other two counties, Kent and Sussex, combined. It is also the most economically developed of the three. Matt Meyer was elected New Castle County Executive in 2016. New Castle County is home to two minor league sports teams: the Wilmington Blue Rocks (baseball) and the Delaware Blue Coats (basketball) which also plays in Wilmington. It also has a professional auto racing track in New Castle known as Airport Speedway, which races on Saturday nights throughout the summer. The first permanent European settlement on Delaware soil was Fort Christina, resulting from Peter
Ma'ale Hever to eleven families on 24 August 1983, after which it was renamed after the nearby Hever Stream. In its early years, the only route leading to the village passed through the Palestinian town of Bani Na'im. In 2009, Assaf Ramon, son of Israeli Astronaut Ilan Ramon who was aboard the fatal mission Columbia when the space shuttle exploded, was killed when the F-16 he was flying crashed in the vicinity of Ma'ale Hever. Ma'ale Hever Ma'ale Hever () or Pnei Hever (), at an elevation of 810 metres, is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located in the eastern