Yonatan, Golan Heights

Coordinates: 32°56′11″N 35°47′40″E / 32.93639°N 35.79444°E / 32.93639; 35.79444
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Yonatan
יוֹנָתָן‎
The Cultural Centre building in the moshav
The Cultural Centre building in the moshav
Yonatan is located in the Golan Heights
Yonatan
Yonatan
Yonatan is located in the Golan Heights
Yonatan
Yonatan
Coordinates: 32°56′11″N 35°47′40″E / 32.93639°N 35.79444°E / 32.93639; 35.79444
CountryIsrael
DistrictNorthern
CouncilGolan
RegionGolan Heights
AffiliationHapoel HaMizrachi
Founded1975
Population
 (2022)[1]
860

Yonatan (

community settlement. The settlement is affiliated with the Hapoel HaMizrachi movement, and is under the jurisdiction of Golan Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 860.[1]

The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.[2]

Etymology

The settlement is named after Yonatan Rosenman, who was killed while operating a tank during the Yom Kippur War.[3]

History

The settlement was founded, together with four other settlements, during Yitzhak Rabin's first term as Prime Minister. The original founding nucleus included people from Yonatan Rosenman's Nahal gar'in. Immediately after the Yom Kippur War the founders including Yonatan's brother, Didi, decided to name a settlement after him and to start an agricultural community in the Golan Heights. In 1975 the settlement was started temporarily in the area of the settlement kibbutz Merom Golan, and about a year later it moved to Tel Farj. Only in 1978 did it move to its present-day location.

Landmine incident

In May 2013, a mine exploded during a mine-clearing exercise close to Moshav Yonatan. The explosion killed a newly recruited IDF soldier in the Engineering Corps.

Geography

The present-day location is 570 meters (1,870 ft)

Carmiel
.

Population

Residents of the settlement are members of Bnei Akiva. About 350 people live there, including 75 families and 210 children as of 2007. There is a significant English speaking population on the Moshav as well.

Community

Community life on the moshav is very active, with emphasis on Jewish Orthodox and Zionist life style. A wide range of professionals live on Yonatan. There is a pediatrician, a dentist, a general practitioner, a university lecturer, a landscape architect, rabbinical scholars, teachers, electricians, high tech people, a plumber, and a policeman. For children there are Talmud Torah classes and gymboree. For adults: various

shiurim
given both by the Rabbi and other members of the community, and the culture committee organizes parties, holiday activities, and women's evenings. There is a grocery store, a health clinic, a secretarial office which provides postal services, a mikva, a library, and a gas station on the moshav.

Economy

The economy is based on apple and plum

chicken coops which markets 600,000 chickens a year, and the second-largest dairy herd in Israel (as of 2007), whose milk is delivered to Tnuva, a vineyard which supplies grapes to the Golan Heights winery. Yonatan also partners with the resort village Kinar on the shore of the Sea of Galilee
.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  2. ^ "The Geneva Convention". BBC. 10 December 2009.
  3. ^ History of Yonatan

External links

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