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

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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

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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,"

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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

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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.

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

Ski resort

History

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