Mevo Hama ( he, מְבוֹא חַמָּה) 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 ...

organized as a

kibbutz A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...

in the Golan Heights. The settlement was established as a kibbutz after Israel occupied the area in the

Six Day War The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states (primarily United Arab Republic, Egypt, S ...

in 1967. The southernmost Israeli settlement in the Golan, it is located from the

Sea of Galilee The Sea of Galilee ( he, יָם כִּנֶּרֶת, Judeo-Aramaic: יַמּא דטבריא, גִּנֵּיסַר, ar, بحيرة طبريا), also called Lake Tiberias, Kinneret or Kinnereth, is a freshwater lake in Israel. It is the lowest ...

at a height of above sea level and falls under the jurisdiction of Golan Regional Council. In it had a population of . The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.

History

The second Israeli settlement established in the Golan after the 1967 Six-Day War, it was built on a

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

n military base called "Emrit Ez Edeen", from which the Syrians had fired at the kibbutzim on the border ( Ein Gev and

HaOn HaOn ( he, הָאוֹן, lit. "The Power") is a community settlement on the shore of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. Located at the foot of the Golan Heights about a twenty-minute drive from the city of Tiberias, it is part of Emek HaYard ...

). In January 1968, several members of the surrounding kibbutzim gathered and decided to establish a new settlement in the area and in September had settled the ruins of the base. They were joined in 1971 by several youth groups from Israel,

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

and England. The name of the settlement, meaning ''The Gateway of, or Approach to, the Hot Springs'', referring to nearby

Hamat Gader Hamat Gader ( he, חַמַּת גָּדֵר; arc, חמתא דגדר, ; grc, Ἑμμαθά, or , ; ar, الحمة السورية ', meaning "the Syrian Hamma") is a hot springs site in the Yarmouk River valley, used since the classical ant ...

, was given to it by author

Mattityahu Shalem Mattityahu is a Hebrew first name literally meaning "The gift of Yahweh". English renderings include Matthew, Matthias, and Mattathias. Mattithyahu is a variation. Mattityahu may refer to: People * Mattathias (died 165 BCE), Jewish priest also k ...

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Kibbutzim Kibbutz Movement Populated places established in 1968 Golan Regional Council Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights Populated places in Northern District (Israel) 1968 establishments in the Israeli Military Governorate {{Israel-geo-stub

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