Betar Illite
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Betar Illite בֵּיתָר עִלִּית بيتار عيليت |
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 Betar Illit 1998 |
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West Bank ( Judea and Samaria ) |
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| Community type : | city | ||
| Founded : | 1985 | ||
| Coordinates : | 31 ° 42 ′ N , 35 ° 7 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 950 m | ||
| Area : | 6,801 km² | ||
| Residents : | 51,636 (2016) | ||
| Population density : | 8 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Mayor : | Meir Rubinstein | ||
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Betar Illit or Beitar Illit ( Hebrew ביתר עילית) is a city and Israeli settlement in the West Bank . It was founded in 1985 and is located 10 kilometers southwest of Jerusalem , around 5 kilometers west of Bethlehem and 8 kilometers west of the Etzion Block (Gush Etzion), to which it is assigned, and extends over several hills of the biblical Judean mountains.
Betar Illit is with 51,636 inhabitants (2016), mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews , known as Haredim in Israel , the second largest Israeli settlement in the West Bank. It is 0.4 kilometers east of the Green Line and west of the barrier fence .
Surname
Betar Illit, German Ober-Betar, takes its name from the Betar fortress , the last Jewish bastion in the Bar Kochba uprising against the Romans, which was destroyed in 135. In the immediate vicinity of the ruins is the Palestinian town of Battir .
Legal status
According to the Israeli view, the Etzion Bloc and Betar Illit are among the settlements that must remain within Israel if a peace settlement with the Palestinians is found.
history
Betar Illit was the first settlement beyond the Green Line planned for ultra-Orthodox Jews, whose settlement in settlements around Jerusalem under the Allon Plan was promoted by the Labor Party under Yitzchak Rabin in the 1970s. The settlement was officially founded in 1985, but was not settled until around 1990. The initially slow growth increased sharply after 1995 after the distance to Jerusalem had been reduced to 10 kilometers by the highway (Tunnel Road) opened in 1995. In 2002 Betar Illit already had more than 17,000 inhabitants and was raised to city administration .
geography
Betar Illit is located at an altitude of about 950 meters above sea level in the hill country of the biblical Judean Mountains, about 5 kilometers west of Bethlehem and 10 kilometers southwest of Jerusalem . The city extends over several hills. At its northernmost point it is about 0.4 kilometers from the Green Line , and at the southern end more than 2.5 kilometers. Although 8 kilometers from the Gush Etzion , the city is part of the Etzion Block. Betar Illit is connected to Tel Aviv by road 375 from Bethlehem towards the Elah Valley , with Jerusalem by expressway 60 (Highway 60).
population
The inhabitants of Betar Illit are almost exclusively ultra-Orthodox Jews , called Haredim in Israel.
The population grew from 2000 to 2005 by 70 percent and from 2004 to 2009 by 46 percent to 36,400 inhabitants, in 2009 the growth was around 6.5 percent; the built-up area of the city more than doubled between 2001 and 2009. The population is very young overall, in 2007 62.6 percent were younger than 17 years old. At the end of 2010, Betar Illit had 37,575 inhabitants.
mayor
- Meir Rubenstein since 2007
- Yitzchak Pindrus 2002-2007
Land question
According to a report by the Israeli organization Shalom Achshaw , 15.2 percent of the land on which the city was built is privately owned by Palestinians , which violates Israeli law. Since a 1979 ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court , no Israeli settlements have been allowed to be built on privately owned Palestinian land. However, the Israeli military administration in the Occupied Territories, on whose statistics the report is based, denies that the report accurately reflects the reality.
Controversy
Palestinians living near Betar Illit (in the village of Nahalin) accuse the Jewish settlers of disposing of their sewage unfiltered in Palestinian fields.
In 2013, residents of the Palestinian village of Battir took legal action against Israel's plans to build the barriers through their village. Betar Illit settlement officials attempted to crack down on the Palestinian lawsuit because it would run counter to plans to enlarge Betar Illit.
See also
Web links
- Cara Loverock: The Village of Husan Near Bethlehem . Paying for the Occupation . Alternative Information Center, May 14, 2007
- Tamar Rotem: The price is right . The ultra-Orthodox make up one-third of the population of the territories. But most of them are living there for one reason only, which has nothing to do with ideology and everything to do with the severe shortage of affordable housing within the Green Line. Haaretz , September 29, 2003
- Legal Consequences cf the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory . (PDF; 8.1 MB) Advisory Opinion, International Court of Justice, July 9, 2004, Reports 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved April 21, 2018
- ^ Settlements in the West Bank. (No longer available online.) Foundation for Middle East Peace, archived from the original September 4, 2014 ; accessed on June 25, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Martin Klingst: The struggle for Palestine. 2000 - Clinton . In: Die Zeit , No. 18/2004
- ^ A b c Ethan Bronner, Isabel Kershner: In West Bank Settlements, Sign of Hope for a Deal. In: The New York Times. July 26, 2009, accessed May 9, 2012 .
- ^ Tovah Lazaroff: We are not settlers. We are Jews. In: The Jerusalem Post. June 18, 2007, accessed July 4, 2012 .
- ↑ a b By Hook and by Crook. Israeli Settlement Policy in the West Bank. (PDF; 969 kB) B'Tselem , July 2010, p. 64 f. , accessed June 28, 2012 .
- ↑ Gush Etzion. (No longer available online.) Shalom Achshaw , November 2005, archived from the original on June 28, 2016 ; Retrieved June 28, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Peace Now's Settlement Watch Team: Breaking the Law in the West Bank. One Violation Leads to Another: Israeli Settlement Building on Private Palestinian Property. (PDF; 388 kB) Schalom Achschaw, October 2006, p. 24 , accessed on June 25, 2012 (English).
- ^ Rory McCarthy: 39% of Israeli settlements 'on private land'. In: The Guardian . November 22, 2006, accessed May 9, 2012 .
- ^ Nadav Shragai: Blow to settlement movement. In: Haaretz . November 21, 2006, accessed May 9, 2012 .
- ↑ Nadav Shragai: Peace Now: 40 percent of settlements' land is owned by private Palestinians. In: Haaretz . November 22, 2006, accessed May 9, 2012 .
- ↑ Settlers Drown Palestinians' Land with Wastewater in Bethlehem. (No longer available online.) In: WAFA. May 29, 2011, archived from the original on June 1, 2011 ; accessed on May 9, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Report on a lawsuit. (English)
