Natur ( he, נָטוּר) 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

Golan Heights The Golan Heights ( ar, هَضْبَةُ الْجَوْلَانِ, Haḍbatu l-Jawlān or ; he, רמת הגולן, ), or simply the Golan, is a region in the Levant spanning about . The region defined as the Golan Heights differs between di ...

. The

settlement Settlement may refer to: *Human settlement, a community where people live *Settlement (structural), the distortion or disruption of parts of a building *Closing (real estate), the final step in executing a real estate transaction *Settlement (fina ...

was established as a kibbutz after Israel

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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. In , it had a population of settlers. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.

History

Natur was established in 1980 by high school graduates from kibbutzim affiliated with the

Hashomer Hatzair Hashomer Hatzair ( he, הַשׁוֹמֵר הַצָעִיר, , ''The Young Guard'') is a Labor Zionist, secular Jewish youth movement founded in 1913 in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary, and it was also the name of the group ...

movement.Once a kibbutz, not always a kibbutz
Haaretz, 8 August 2005 In 2007 it converted from a kibbutz to a

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 ...

. Membership at that time was nearly 200 people. Natur is a mixed religious-secular community.

Archaeology

In 1984, several

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s were excavated in Natur near the kibbutz chicken coops. Numerous stone heaps were documented in the area, along with terraces, walls and circular animal pens, some of which may date from ancient times.Excavations and Surveys in Israel
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References

Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights Kibbutzim Populated places established in 1980 Golan Regional Council 1980 establishments in the Israeli Military Governorate {{Israel-geo-stub

History

Archaeology

See also

References