The Jezreel Valley (Hebrew: עמק יזרעאל‎, Emek Yizre'el; Arabic: مرج ابن عامر‎, Marj Ibn Amer; in the Douay-Rheims, Jezreel is spelled Jezrahel) is a large fertile plain and inland valley in the south of the Lower Galilee region of Israel. The West Bank cities of Jenin and Tulkarm border the Jezreel from the south. Samarian highlands and Mount Gilboa, to the north by the Lower Galilee, to the west by the Mount Carmel range, and to the east by the Jordan Valley.