Jisr az-Zarqa (Arabic: جـِسـْر الزرقاء‎, Hebrew: גִ'סְּר א-זַּרְקָא‎ lit. bridge over the blue [stream]) is an Israeli Arab local council on Israel's northern Mediterranean coastal plain. Located just north of Caesarea within the Haifa District, it achieved local council status in 1963. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) the town had a population of 11,100 residents at the end of 2005. Its name refers to the Taninim stream, which is known in Arabic as 'the blue [stream].'