Neve Ativ (), is an
Israeli settlement in the
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 ...
, organized as a small
Alpine
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-styled
moshav. Located on the slopes of
Mount Hermon
Mount Hermon ( ar, جبل الشيخ or جبل حرمون / ALA-LC: ''Jabal al-Shaykh'' ("Mountain of the Sheikh") or ''Jabal Haramun''; he, הַר חֶרְמוֹן, ''Har Hermon'') is a mountain cluster constituting the southern end of th ...
, west of
Majdal Shams
Majdal Shams ( ar, مجدل شمس; he, מַגְ'דַל שַׁמְס) is a Druze town in the southern foothills of Mount Hermon, north of the Golan Heights, known as the informal "capital" of the Golan Heights. The majority of residents are S ...
. it falls under the jurisdiction of
Golan Regional Council
Golan Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית גולן, ar, مجلس الجولان الإقليمي) is a regional council that supervises regional services to Israeli settlements located on the Golan Heights. It is made up of 18 moshav ...
. 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.
Ski resort
The moshav's main industry is
tourism
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. Neve Ativ operates the nearby
Mount Hermon ski resort
The Mount Hermon ski resort ( he, אתר החרמון) is situated on the south-eastern slopes of Mount Hermon, a few kilometers off the Purple line, in the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights. The site is surrounded by the Hermon na ...
,
which has of ski runs on the slopes of the -above-sea-level Mount Hermon. The resort was destroyed in the 1973
Yom Kippur War
The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was an armed conflict fought from October 6 to 25, 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by E ...
, but re-opened the following year.
["Ski resort back in business,"](_blank)
Chicago Tribune
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, March 7, 1975, accessed December 18, 2009
History
Israel and Syria fought major battles in the area in 1967 and 1973, and it remains a strategic military position. Neve Ativ was built on the land of the destroyed
Syrian village of
Jubata ez-Zeit. It was founded in 1972, when the Golan region was a part of the
Israeli Military Governorate
The Israeli Military Governorate was a military governance system established following the Six-Day War in June 1967, in order to govern the civilian population of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula and the Western part of Golan ...
, governed by military occupation system. The name Ativ is an
acronym
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for four fallen soldiers from the
Egoz Reconnaissance Unit
Unit 621, otherwise known as Egoz ( he, יחידת אגוז, ''Yehidat Egoz''. lit. "Nut"), is an elite Israel Defense Forces (IDF) commando unit specializing in guerrilla warfare, special reconnaissance, and direct action (military). It is a pa ...
killed in action in the Golan: Avraham Hameiri, Tuvia Ellinger, Yair Elegarnty, and Binyamin Hadad. Neve means
Oasis.
In 1981, the area of Golan was unilaterally
annexed by Israel, abolishing military occupation system and imposing Israeli civil rule on the area. In November 1996, a dining room in the settlement was set on fire and the walls on the building had "Down With the Occupation" and "The Golan Belongs to Syria" painted on them. Pro-Syrian Druze were believed to be behind it.
See also
*
Economy of Israel
*
Tourism in Israel
Tourism in Israel is one of Israel's major sources of income, with a record 4.55 million tourist arrivals in 2019, and, in 2017, contributed NIS 20 billion to the Israeli economy making it an all-time record. Israel offers a plethora of historica ...
References
{{Golan Regional Council
Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights
Moshavim
Agricultural Union
Golan Regional Council
Populated places in Northern District (Israel)
Populated places established in 1972
1972 establishments in the Israeli Military Governorate