Telem, Har Hebron

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Telem
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Telem is located in the West Bank
Telem
Telem
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District Judea and Samaria Area
Council Har Hevron
Region West Bank
Founded 1982
Name meaning Furrow

Telem (Hebrew: <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />תֶּלֶם‎) is a community settlement and an Israeli settlement located in the southern Judean Hills region of the West Bank, west of Kiryat Arba, and under the jurisdiction of the Har Hevron Regional Council. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.[1]

The village was established on 31 January 1982 as a pioneering Nahal military outpost and demilitarized only a year later when turned over for residential purposes in the form of a non-religious cooperative village (Hebrew: מושב שיתופי, moshav shitufi) belonging to the Herut Betar movement. In 1995, with the assistance of the Amana settlement organization,[2] houses were built.

In 2004, a group of about twenty religious families joined the village in order to strengthen and build a mixed community. In the centre of the village, a Beit Midrash was established and named the 'Netivot Dror Yeshiva' in memory of Dror Weinberg, an Israel Defense Forces army colonel who, as of 2007, was the highest ranking Israeli soldier to be killed during the Second Intifada.[citation needed]

The community still has agriculture including grape vineyards and chicken coops. Its original name was Mitzpe Guvrin since it overlooks the Beit Guvrin region.[3]

References

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  2. Amana Settlement Movement
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