Karnei Shomron
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Karnei Shomron קַרְנֵי שׁוֹמְרוֹן |
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 Great Synagogue in Karnei Shomron |
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West Bank ( Judea and Samaria ) |
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| Municipal administration : | Local government (Israel) | ||
| Founded : | 1977 | ||
| Coordinates : | 32 ° 10 ' N , 35 ° 6' E | ||
| Residents : | 7,102 (2016) | ||
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Karnei Shomron ( Hebrew קַרְנֵי שׁוֹמְרוֹן; literally: "Horns of Samaria") is an Israeli settlement and city that was founded in 1977 in northwest Samaria , east of Kfar Saba . It is an independent Israeli municipal administration . On December 31, 2016, 7,102 Israelis lived in Karnei Shomron.
location
Karnei Shomron is located in the West Bank , 48 kilometers northeast of Tel Aviv and 85 kilometers north of Jerusalem .
The city borders the Wadi Nahal Kana. The wadi is said to have been the historical border between the tribes Ephraim and Manasseh during the time of the first Israelite state . The wadi is managed by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and is registered as a nature reserve .
history
In 1991, four Israeli settlements were merged and given the name Karnei Shomron :
- Karnei Shomron - 1977, founded by 450 families
- Ginot Shomron - 1984, founded by 850 families
- Neve Menachem - 1991, founded by 220 families
- Alonei Shilo - 1999, founded by 25 families
On February 16, 2002, an attack was carried out on the Karnei Shomron Mall . The Palestinian Sadek Abdel Hafeth entered the mall on a Saturday evening ( Shabbat ) wearing an explosive device on his body. At 7:45 p.m. at the entrance to a pizzeria, the suicide bomber detonated this explosive device, killing three young people and injuring 27 people, six of them seriously. Two of the youths died instantly, while the third victim did not succumb to his injuries until February 27, 2002. The fatalities were Rachel Thaler (16 years) and Keren Shatsky (15 years) from Ginot Shomron and Nehemia 'Amar (15 years) from Karnei Shomron. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine took responsibility for the attack, stating that the attacker was an 18-year-old Palestinian teenager from Qalqiliya .
Residents
In the censuses of June 4, 1983, November 4, 1995 and December 28, 2008, the Israeli Central Statistical Office gives the following population figures for Karnei Shomron:
| Year of the census | 1983 | 1995 | 2008 |
| Number of inhabitants | 730 | 5040 | 6559 |
mayor
- Herzl Ben-Ari until 2018
- Yigal Lahav since 2018
Known residents of the settlement
The chief rabbi of Karnei Shomron is Rabbi Yitzhak Halevy. Herzl Ben-Ari is the Mayor of Karnei Shomron.
- Michael Ben-Ari (* 1963), Israeli politician
- Moshe Feiglin (* 1962), Israeli politician
- Shmuel Sackett , Israeli politician
Legal question
The United Nations (UN) consider the Israeli settlements in the West Bank (or Judea and Samaria ) to be illegally established because, in their opinion, this area is not part of the national territory of Israel. The Israeli government denies this legal conception.
Web links
- Sondra Oster Baras: Karnei Shomron - A Place For Every Jew To Call Home . In: One Israel Fund News.
Individual evidence
- ↑ cbs.gov.il ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ; PDF) 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
- ↑ Michael Feige: Settling in the Hearts. Jewish Fundamentalism in the Occupied Territories. Wayne State University Press, Detroit 2009, ISBN 978-0-8143-2750-0 , p. 76.
- ↑ Grean and pleasant land on The Jerusalem Post
- ↑ Karnei Shomron on jewishvirtuallibrary.org
- ↑ Suicide bomber detonates blast in West Bank In: USA Today, February 17, 2002.
- ^ Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
