Tomer ( he, תֹּמֶר, , Palm Tree) 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
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 ...
in the
West Bank
The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...
.
Located in the
Jordan Valley next to the Palestinian village of
Fasayil, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council.
In it had a population of .
The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank
illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.
History
According to
ARIJ, Israel confiscated 1,049
dunam
A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount ...
s of land from the
Palestinian village of
FasayilFasayil Village Profile
p. 17, ARIJ in order to construct Tomer.
The village was established in 1976,
References
{{Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council
Moshavim
Israeli settlements in the West Bank
Populated places established in 1976
1976 establishments in the Israeli Military Governorate