Beit Yatir ( he, בית יתיר), officially Metzadot Yehuda ( he, מְצָדוֹת יְהוּדָה), is an
Israeli settlement
Israeli settlements, or Israeli colonies, are civilian communities inhabited by Israeli citizens, overwhelmingly of Jewish ethnicity, built on lands occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. The international community considers Israeli se ...
in the southern
Hebron Hills of the
West Bank, organized as a religious-Zionist
Orthodox moshav
A moshav ( he, מוֹשָׁב, plural ', lit. ''settlement, village'') is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 an ...
. Located on a hill, 900 metres
above sea level
Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''.
The comb ...
, near the
Green Line
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Places Military and political
* Green Line (France), the German occupation line in France during World War II
* Green Line (Israel), the 1949 armistice line established between Israel and its neighbours
** City Line ( ...
, south of
Susiya, and close to the
Palestinian village of as-Seefer,
[Weibel, Catherin]
Seam Zone keeps Palestinian children in limbo, disrupting education
UNICEF 21 May 2012] it falls under the jurisdiction of
Har Hevron Regional Council. In , it had a population of .
The ruins of the ancient town of
Eshtemoa Eshtemoa, meaning obedience or "'place where prayer is heard", was an ancient city in the Judaean Mountains, mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. It is also the name of two people mentioned in the First Book of Chronicles.
Eshtemoa, Jud ...
are nearby.
The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank
illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.
History
Beit Yatir was established in 1979 by students from the
Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva. In 1983, the moshav was moved southwest from its original location south of the town of
as-Samu to its current location in the
Yatir Forest. A visual landmark of the moshav is a high wind turbine.
The social make-up of the moshav residents varies between
sabras to
immigrants from various countries, including France, Russian,
Brazil, and English-speaking countries. The moshav does not require residents to become members of the cooperative.
Education
A
Religious Pre-Army Mechina, with several dozen students enrolled, is headed by Rabbi Moshe Hagar.
References
External links
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Brazilian-Jewish diaspora
Moshavim
Religious Israeli settlements
Populated places established in 1979
1979 establishments in the Israeli Military Governorate
French-Jewish culture in Israel
Russian-Jewish culture in Israel
Israeli settlements in the West Bank