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Elazar (Hebrew: אֶלְעָזָר) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, 18 kilometers south of Jerusalem in the Gush Etzion cluster of settlements. A community settlement, it had a population of 2,615 in 2022. It is administered by the Gush Etzion Regional Council. [2]
The four kibbutzes of the Gush Etzion at the time of the 1948 war (Kfar Etzion, Ein Zurim, Massuot Yitzhak, Revadim) overlaid on a 1943 Survey of Palestine map.The land area is shown as being within the village boundaries of Khirbet Beit Zakariyyah. 1943 Survey of Palestine map, shortly prior to the founding of Jewish settlements in the area.
On 21 March 2024, David Ben Avraham (Hebrew: דוד בן אברהם), a 63-year-old Palestinian Jewish convert, was shot and killed by an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) soldier near Elazar, an Israeli settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. [1] The soldier had approached Ben Avraham and asked whether he was Jewish, to which he responded ...
Admission is $18. Proceeds will benefit the Gush Etzion Foundation, which supports initiatives in the region.
The perpetrator was speeding on Route 60 which connects the West Bank and Gush Etzion. [1] He swerved off the road near a bus station outside the settlement of Elazar and rammed his car into two people, crashing over the guard railing.
Gush Etzion Junction is located in the northern Judean Hills at about 950 m above sea level. The junction is a 25-meter (82 ft) diameter roundabout (traffic circle) at the intersection of Route 60 and Route 367. Nearby communities include Efrat, Elazar, Alon Shvut, Kfar Etzion, Migdal Oz and Beit Fajjar.
Alon Shvut, literally, "oak of return", is a reference to the return of the Jews expelled from Gush Etzion by the Jordanian Arab Legion in 1948 following the Kfar Etzion massacre. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The 700-year-old Kermes Oak ( Quercus calliprinos ) [ 10 ] is sacred to the Arabs with the name Ballutet el Yerzeh (oak of Yerzeh).
Metzad (Hebrew: מיצד), also known as Asfar (אַסְפָר), is an Israeli settlement organised as a community settlement in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc in the West Bank. Established as by ultra-orthodox Jews in 1984, it is located south of Bethlehem in the eastern Judean Mountains, 14.5 km from the Green Line, outside the Separation ...