Bnei Yehuda, Golan Heights
Bnei Yehuda
בְּנֵי יְהוּדָה | |
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Coordinates: 32°47′55″N 35°41′23″E / 32.79861°N 35.68972°E | |
District | Northern |
Council | Golan |
Founded | 1972 |
Population (2022)[1] | 1,152 |
Bnei Yehuda (Hebrew: בְּנֵי יְהוּדָה) is an Israeli settlement organized as a moshav located in the southern Golan Heights, under the administration of Israel. The moshav was built in 1972 and falls under the municipal jurisdiction of the Golan Regional Council. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli and the U.S government disputes this.[2] In 2022 its population was 1,152.[1]
History
Late Ottoman and Mandate periods
In the winter of 1885, members of the Old Yishuv in Safed formed the Beit Yehuda Society and purchased 15,000 dunams of land from the village of Ramthaniye in the central Golan.[3] Due to financial hardships and difficulty in securing a kushan (Ottoman land deed), the site was abandoned a year later. Soon afterwards, the society regrouped and purchased 2,000 dunams of land from the village of Bir esh-Shagum on the western slopes of the Golan.[4]
In 1890, six houses were built with the help of the
Modern village
Modern Bnei Yehuda was founded in 1972 east of the former site by workers of the
References
- ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ "The Geneva Convention". BBC. December 10, 2009.
- ^ Gil-Har, Yitzhak (1981). "Separation of Trans-Jordan from Palestine". The Jerusalem Cathedra, ed. Lee Levine, Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi and Wayne State University, Jerusalem, p. 306.
- ^ Reshaping Palestine: From Muhammad Ali to the British Mandate, 1831-1922, Martin Sicker
- ^ M. R. Fishbach, Jewish property claims against Arab countries, Columbia University Press (2008), pp. 36-37.
- ISBN 0-7425-0914-1
- ^ Gil-Har (1981), p. 306.
- ^ Vilnai, Ze'ev (1976). "Benei-Yehuda". Ariel Encyclopedia (in Hebrew). Vol. 1. Israel: Am Oved. pp. 955–57.
- ISBN 965-448-413-7.
- ^ "In recognition of the Moshavim movement in Israel" - The story of Givat Yoav Link