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Elazar (Israeli settlement)

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Elazar ( ) is an Israeli settlement in the Judean Hills region of the West Bank , 18 kilometers south of Jerusalem in the Gush Etzion cluster of settlements.¹ A communal settlement , it has around a settlement population of 1,700 (2010) composed of 450 families.² It is administered by the Gush Etzion Regional Council . The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law , although the Israeli government disputes this. The Netiv Ha’avot outpost , officially an expansion of Elazar, 500 meters beyond the Elzar settlement's jurisdiction, and adjacent to Alon Shvut is built on privately owned Palestinian agricultural land, the former property of the Mussa family of al-Khader . Local Palestinian villagers maintain they owned and worked the land until military curfews and closures in the wake of the Al-Aqsa Intifada forced them to abandon it, whereupon settlers moved onto the land to build there in February 2001. An assistant to the Minister of Defence at that time, Brig. Baruch Spiegel , stated that the outpost was built on privately owned Palestinian land and on “survey land”, meaning land whose ownership was still subject to determination. Netiv Ha'avot subsequently figured among 105 outposts listed in the Sasson Report submitted to the Israel cabinet in 2005, and the report noted that Israeli Ministry of Housing and Construction had by that date spent the cabinet in 2005. The report notes that the Construction and Housing Ministry spent NIS 300,000 to develop the outpost. Netiv Ha'avot has since been the subject of two High Court of Justice petitions. The court ordered the government to form a committee to examine the land ownership issue after 8 Palestinian farmers from al-Khader petitioned for the demolition of the outpost in 2002 on the basis that it was built on their privately owned land. No committee was constituted however. In 2008, a second petition to demolish the outpost was filed by Peace Now , and the state said a committee would be formed to examine land ownership. The office of the State Attorney responded by concurring that the oupost was unauthorized and that action, stop-work orders an demolitions, was being taken. In July 2009, justices ordered the state to provide a “clear timetable for carrying out the orders.” The timetable was never produced, On being told by Israeli Labor MP Yuli Tamir , who confronted the residents, that the outpost had been built without permits, the Gush Etzion Council head Shaul Goldstein replied:"I have examined 200 locales around Israel, and they were all erected this way. This is the building culture in Israel." The state, though having repeated for 9 years that the outpost had been built illegally, stated through the Attorney General on the 25 April 2010, in a notification to the High Court of Justice that the government was considering approving the settlement, subject to determining what buildings stood on state ground and which constructions were built on private Palestinian land. If cases were found reflecting the latter circumstance, them demolitions would proceed. B'tselem , the Israeli Human Rights organization, argued that such an approval constituted an approval of looting and unlawful construction, and implied that the state was ignoring obligations undertaking in the Road map for peace . The Peace Now petition was rejected in October 2010 by Justice Edmond Levy because the land survey had not been carried out. The survey, completed a month later, found that 60% of the outpost was built on privately owned Palestinian farmland. On April 13, 2014, Israel announced its intention to retroactively declare 983 dunams around Nevit Ha'avot state land, marking the largest expropriation of West Bank territory in recent times. Palestinian village leaders were given notice of the state's intention to appropriate the land, and have 45 days to appeal the decision. According to Haaretz the "planned appropriation of land far exceeds the size of the Netiv Ha’avot, which is built on just a few dozen dunams". About 50 families live in the outpost, including the secretary of Amana described by Haaretz as "the organization that is the driving force behind all the illegal outposts". Palestinians living in nearby villages were given 45 days to appeal the decision. Dror Etkes, head of the Peace Now settlement tracking project, described the decision as "a faithful reflection of the Netanyahu government’s policy" intended to "extinguish the last embers of the negotiations with the Palestinians". Rachel Shabi, 'Bulldozers prepare as deadline on West Bank settlement freeze looms,' The Guardian 22 September 2010. The named reference "B'tselem" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page ).³

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Place in Judea and Samaria Area, Israel Elazar ( ) is a village in the Gush Etzion Judean Hills region of the West Bank , 18 kilometers south of Jerusalem . A religious community sometimes known as a communal settlement , it has around 350 families living there. Elazar was established in 1975 as a moshav , a semi-socialist community (somewhat similar to a kibbutz) by a core group of 10 pioneering families of religious Jewish academics who had emigrated from North America . This community was built on an abandoned field that was strewn with boulders. The community of Elazar has roots in events that go back 2,100 years as it was named for the Maccabi Eleazar son of Horan , brother of the Maccabean leader Judas Maccabeus who was killed at the Battle of Beth-zechariah in 162 BC adjacent to the community's location. Elazar was distinguished in that it was the first attempt to create a semi-socialst community that was based on hi-tec industry rather than agriculture. The early industries on Elazar included a sophisticated data processing center, a chemical industry that extracted natural red food dye from grape skins (after chemical dyes were taken off the market when the food industry needed a safe replacement for coal-tar based food dyes). The chemical plant on Elazar had a branch that methylated hesperidin which is now recognized as an important anti-inflammatory bio-flavonoid. The laboratory on Elazar had a service that performed analytical testing of agricultural substances such as feed, fertilizer, soil and processed sewage for many farmers throughout Israel. Elazar had an electronics factory that invented, patented and marketed the world's first telephone dialer. In those early days there was a restaurant that served many tourist buses that stopped by in after visiting Bethlehem and on their way to Hebron. There was also a factory that produced and sold crafts such as decorative needlework patterns and a gift shop that served the tourists. In time Elazar incorporated agriculture into the framework of the community so poultry runs were built and orchards were planted. Elazar is located in the Judean Highlands, the central mountains of Israel, and is at an altitude of 925 meters. It is blessed with a mild temperate climate complete with dry summer days, cool damp summer nights and mild winters with temperatures that do not often go below freezing. The terrain of Gush Etzion can be rugged and mountainous so the orchards were planted on ancient terraces that had lain fallow for 2,000 years since the Second Temple Period. Orchard crops included sweet cherries, sour cherries, nectarines, peaches, plums, walnuts and pistachios. Members of early Elazar did research trials on bramble fruits (raspberries, blackberries and boysenberries) as well as asparagus to determine their commercial potential in Gush Etzion. Research trials were also first performed on European wine grapes. The results from those trials were spectacular and area orchards have slowly been replaced by vineyards. The wine grapes of Gush Etzion produce very high quality wines that are exported to the US. The moshav framework was dissolved in 1987 and was replaced by the present communal settlement . Once the change in structure away from the semi-socialist framework was made Elazar became very attractive to the non-immigrant population and today a significant majority of the residents of Elazar are native Israelis. Various farming and industrial activities provide employment within the community, but most of the residents work in Jerusalem.

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village in the gush etzion judean hills region of the west bank

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israeli settlement in the west bank

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