Zemer (Hebrew: זמר; Arabic: زيمر) is an Arab local cooncil in the Center Destrict o Israel. It is locatit in the Arab Triangle aurie, atween Baqa-Jatt an Bat Hefer on Road 574. Zemer is the result o a merger o fower veelages - Yama, Bir as-Sika, Ibtan an Marja - in 1988
Yama an Ibtan appeared in Ottoman tax registers compiled in 1596, in the Nahiyas o Qaqun an Jabal Sami, respectively, o the Nablus Liwa. Yama haed a population o 18 Muslim hoosehaulds an 5 bachelors, while Ibtan wis indicatit as empty even tho it paid taxes.[1]
Prior tae 1948, aw fower veelages wur admeenistratively relatit tae modren-day Palestinian toun o Deir al-Ghusun.[2]
Zemer's population at the end o 2006 wis 5,200,[3] an its jurisdiction is 8,203 dunams.[4]