Carmel ( he, כרמל ''Karmel'') is an
Israeli settlement and Religious
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 ...
in the south-east
Mount Hebron
The Hebron Hills, also known as Mount Hebron ( ar, جبل الخليل, translit=Jabal al-Khalīl, he, הר חברון, translit=Har Hevron), are a mountain ridge, geographic region, and geologic formation, comprising the southern part of the J ...
(Har Hevron in Hebrew) area of 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 ...
, close to the Palestinian Bedouin from the village of
Umm al-Kheir, who settled there several decades ago after Israel expelled them from the
Arad desert, and who purchased the land from residents in the Palestinian village of
Yatta.
[ According to ]David Shulman
David Shulman (November 12, 1912 – October 30, 2004) was an American lexicographer and cryptographer.
He contributed many early usages to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' and is listed amon"Readers and contributors from collections" for the se ...
, Carmel lies on lands appropriated from the Bedouin of that village. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Har Hevron Regional Council
The Har Hevron Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית הר חברון, ''Mo'atza Azorit Har Hevron'') is an Israeli regional council in the southern Judean Hills area of Mount Hebron, in the southern West Bank, administering Israeli settle ...
and associates ideologically with the Amana settlement movement. 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.
Etymology
The name Carmel was chosen due to the moshav's close proximity to the location of biblical