Kirjat Arba
Kirjat Arba ( City of Four , Hebrew קריית ארבע) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank . It is located on the outskirts of Hebron , around 40 kilometers south of Jerusalem . The settlement was founded in 1970 by Jewish settlers just east of Hebron on an abandoned military base. The first 120 of today's 7,272 residents (as of December 31, 2016). moved into the first houses in 1971. Another 3,000 or so Israelis live in several smaller settlements in the area; z. B. Bet Chaggai in the south or Giv'at Charsina in the east of Hebron. The mayor of Kirjat Arba is Tzvi Katzover .
Since Kirjat Arba can be seen as a suburb of Hebron, the Jewish settlers who live in the tiny Jewish enclaves in Hebron are also counted as part of Kirjat Arba. They are considered to be the hard core of the radical settler movement, which, with reference to the biblical Eretz Israel, claim the West Bank, which is mostly inhabited by Palestinians.
Kiryat Arba attracts many Palestinian migrant workers because of the high unemployment in Hebron.
history
The Torah contains the term Kirjat Arba as the old name of Hebron (Genesis 23.2). There Kirjat Arba is described as the city of the tribe of Judah , in which Abraham and David worked. Today's Jewish settlers are committed to this tradition and derive from it the religious significance of Hebron and the justification of the settlement Kirjat Arba.
After Arabs and Jews had lived together in Hebron for centuries, 67 Jewish residents of the city were murdered in the organized massacre of Hebron on August 23, 1929 , and the surviving Jews fled Hebron. The Rabbi Moshe Levinger and Eliezer Waldmann wanted after the Six Day War renew the Jewish presence in Hebron. For the Passover festival in 1968 Levinger moved with 87 followers and relatives to the Park Hotel in Hebron. Two days later he announced that the group intended to remain in Hebron to force a Jewish presence in Hebron. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan wanted to remove the settlers and suggested a nearby military base as a settlement site. After negotiations between Levinger and the government led by the Labor Party Avoda , the Kirjat Arba settlement was founded in 1970 in the east of Hebron on the site of a former military base.
Baruch Goldstein , who committed the massacre in the Patriarch's Cave in Hebron on February 25, 1994 , lived in Kirjat Arba, where his grave is located.
In September 2011 a house of culture was inaugurated in Kirjat Arba, which provoked protests from Israeli artists and intellectuals who do not want to go on stage in a place where so many things collide with my view of life (actor Rami Baruch).
Population development
| year | Residents | increase |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 3,000 | - |
| 1981 | 3,100 | + 3.33% |
| 1982 | 3,340 | + 7.74% |
| 1983 | 3,080 | - 7.79% |
| 1984 | 3,540 | + 14.93% |
| 1985 | 3,670 | + 3.67% |
| 1986 | 3,600 | - 1.91% |
| 1987 | 3,700 | + 2.77% |
| 1988 | 3,750 | + 1.35% |
| 1989 | 3,870 | + 3.20% |
| 1990 | 4,290 | + 10.85% |
| 1991 | 4,670 | + 8.85% |
| 1992 | 4,910 | + 5.13% |
| 1993 | 5,070 | + 3.25% |
| 1994 | 5,120 | + 0.98% |
| 1995 | 5,220 | + 1.95% |
| 1996 | 5,810 | + 11.30% |
| 1997 | 6,030 | + 3.78% |
| 1998 | 6,190 | + 2.65% |
| 1999 | 6.240 | + 0.80% |
| 2000 | 6,380 | + 2.24% |
| 2001 | 6,440 | + 0.94% |
| 2002 | 6,580 | + 2.17% |
| 2003 | 6,605 | + 0.37% |
| 2004 | 6,651 | + 0.69% |
| 2005 | 6,800 1 | + 2.4% 1 |
| 2006 | - | - |
| Source: Israel Central Bureau of Statistics | ||
See also
Web links
- Sites in Hebron
- Population of localities numbering above 1,000 residents and other rural population on 31/12/2005
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.
- ↑ a b Nils Metzger: The steadfast settlers of Kiryat Arba. In: Zeit Online . September 20, 2011, accessed September 21, 2011 .
- ↑ A stage for radical settlers. In: FAZ . September 21, 2011, p. 31.
Coordinates: 31 ° 32 ' N , 35 ° 7' E