Giv'at Ze'ev
Giv'at Ze'ev
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Hebrew transcription(s) | |
• ISO 259 | Gibˁat Zˀeb |
• Also spelled | Givat Zeev (unofficial) |
Coordinates: 31°51′51″N 35°10′11″E / 31.86417°N 35.16972°E | |
Region | West Bank |
District | Judea and Samaria Area |
Founded | 1977 |
Government | |
• Head of Municipality | Yossi Avrahami |
Area | |
• Total | 4,841 dunams (4.841 km2 or 1.869 sq mi) |
Population (2022)[1] | |
• Total | 21,097 |
• Density | 4,400/km2 (11,000/sq mi) |
Name meaning | Zeev's Hill (also: Wolf Hill) |
Website | www |
Giv'at Ze'ev (
The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law,[3] but the Israeli government disputes this.[4][5]
Description
According to the Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem, Israel has confiscated land from three nearby Palestinian villages to construct Giv'at Ze'ev:
- 2,246 dunams from Al Jib,[6]
- 30 dunams from Beit Duqqu,[7]
- 9 dunums from Beit Ijza,[8]
- 1,036 dunams from Beitunia, for Giv'at Ze'ev and Beit Horon.[9]
It was named after Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and declared a local council in 1983.[citation needed] Palestinians contend that under the expropriation maps contained in military orders, the road connecting it to Jerusalem, though ostensibly designed to "facilitate Palestinian movement", actually would confiscate 15 square kilometers of prime agricultural land, on which the livelihoods of 24,000 Palestinians depend to enable the programmed development of this settlement bloc.[10]
In 1996 a program of expansion with new housing units and an envisaged 20,000 new settlers was approved, to be constructed on land confiscated from the Palestinian villages of
Both the Ayelet HaShahar synagogue and yeshiva built on private Palestinian land owned by the Allatif family of the nearby Palestinian township of
Giv'at Ze'ev has four elementary schools and one junior high school. There are two youth movement branches: the Israeli Scouts (Arava tribe) and Bnei Akiva.
Location
It is located just off
Religious life
The religious population in mixed and includes
Giv'at Ze'ev is the center of the Karlin-Stolin Chasidim and one of the town's most notable residents is the Stoliner Rebbe Boruch Yaakov Meir Shochet. There is also a Chabad Lubavitch community there as well.[15]
Ramat Givat Zeev
Ramat Givat Zeev is a new section that was being developed in 2013.[16] The 400 housing units include both single-family houses and multi-family apartment buildings.[17] The development is being marketed towards English-speaking religious Jews making Aliyah to Israel.[18]
Archeology
Near Giv'at Ze'ev and in the settlement itself there are several archeological sites:
Hurvat Latatine is an archeological site located in the entrance to Giv'at Ze'ev. Its ruin have been identified since the beginning of the 20th century with the road station mentioned on the Madaba Map as TO ENNATON (literally: "the ninth"). This is due to a certain preservation of the name of the site in the name of the ruin, due to the findings of the road station at the site, and due to the location of the site around the ninth mile on the ancient Roman road between Jerusalem and Lod which goes via Beit Huron. Archaeological surveys carried out on the site during the years of the British mandate found ruins from the Second Temple period. Excavations that were conducted in June 1995, found remains of a church and a road station from the beginning of the 5th century AD, a mosaic floor and an oil press.
Hurvat Jaafar, is a site located in Giv'at Ze'ev and that dates back to the Second Temple period and ended in the early Muslim period. Excavated for the first time in the early nineties, the findings included an elaborate oil press as well as many house walls that have been preserved, each house had its own cistern. In the excavations carried out in 2014, another oil press was found on the site, a Byzantine bath house and a pottery maker's house from the Umayyad period.
References
- ^ "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ a b 'An Israeli settlement in close-up,' BBC News, 22 September 2009.
- ^ 'An Israeli settlement in close-up,' BBC News, 22 September 2009:'Built, like all settlements, in defiance of international law on land captured in 1967, its location is strategically important, south of Israel's Highway 443 cutting into the West Bank for 20 km to connect Tel Aviv with Jerusalem.'
- ^ "The Geneva Convention". BBC News. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
- ^ Eric Silver (10 March 2008). "Israel defies freeze on illegal settlements". The Independent.
- ^ Al Jib Village Profile, ARIJ, August 2012, p. 18
- ^ Beit Duqqu Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 18
- ARIJ, p. 16
- ^ Beituniya Town Profile, ARIJ, p. 18
- ^ Deborah Cowen,Emily Gilbert (eds.) War, Citizenship, Territory, Routledge, 2008 p.277.
- ^ Cheryl Rubenberg,The Palestinians: In Search of a Just Peace,Lynne Rienner Publishers 2003 p.222
- Jerusalem Post. 10 March 2008. Archived from the originalon 8 July 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
- ^ Chaim Levinson, 'Israel pledges to raze settler structures built on Palestinian land with forged deeds,' at Haaretz, 3 September 2013.
- ^ René Backmann,A Wall in Palestine,Macmillan 2010 p.136
- ^ "Chabad of Giv'at Ze'ev – Giv'at Ze'ev, Israel". Archived from the original on 2008-01-14.
- ^ "New Jerusalem Housing Exclusively for Anglos". 7 October 2013.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-12-17. Retrieved 2013-12-17.
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External links
- Givat Zeev Municipality
- Nefesh B'Nefesh Community Guide for Giv'at Ze'ev, Israel.
- Current weather in Givat Zeev (local weather station)
- "An Israeli settlement in close-up". BBC. 22 September 2009. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
- "In the shadow of an Israeli settlement". BBC. 25 September 2009. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
- "Land Grab. Israel's Settlement Policy in the West Bank" (PDF). B'tselem. May 2002. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
- "Under the Guise of Security. Routing the Separation Barrier to Enable the Expansion of Israeli Settlements in the West Bank" (PDF). B'tselem. December 2005. p. 34. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
- Chabad of Giv'at Ze'ev