Natur () is an

Israeli settlement Israeli settlements, also called Israeli colonies, are the civilian communities built by Israel throughout the Israeli-occupied territories. They are populated by Israeli citizens, almost exclusively of Israeli Jews, Jewish identity or ethni ...

in the southern

Golan Heights The Golan Heights, or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria. It is bordered by the Yarmouk River in the south, the Sea of Galilee and Hula Valley in the west, the Anti-Lebanon mountains with Mount Hermon in t ...

. The settlement was established as a

kibbutz A kibbutz ( / , ; : kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania Alef, Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economi ...

in 1980, after Israel occupied the area in the 1967

Six Day War The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states, primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan from 5 to 10June 1967. Military hostilities broke ...

. 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 (, , 'The Young Guard') is a Labor Zionism, Labor Zionist, secular Jewish youth movement founded in 1913 in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary. It was also the name of the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party, the ...

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

moshav A moshav (, plural ', "settlement, village") is a type of Israeli village or town or Jewish settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 and 1 ...

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

Archaeology

In 1984, several

dolmen A dolmen, () or portal tomb, is a type of single-chamber Megalith#Tombs, megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the Late Neolithic period (4000 ...

s were excavated near the kibbutz chicken coops in Natur. 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