Maʿale Amos
Maale Amos (Hebrew: מעלה עמוס, German: ascent of Amos ) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank with 319 inhabitants (2004).
In 1994 Maale Amos had 388 residents. The settlement was founded in 1981 and is located in the Gush Etzion region , south of the Palestinian village of Kisan and the Israeli military base Iwei ha-Nachal, around 14 kilometers from the “ green line ”. In 1988 thirty houses in Kisan were destroyed and land in the village was successively expropriated for the expansion of the Israeli settlement of Maale Amos.
Most of the residents of Maale Amos are Orthodox Jews who immigrated from the United States . The place was named after the biblical prophet Amos , who came from neighboring Tekoa .
Footnotes
- ↑ a b Dror Etkes, Lara Friedman: Settlements in Focus: The Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the West Bank ( memento of the original from October 23, 2007 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. ( Shalom Achshaw , October 2005).
- ↑ a b Kisan Village Threatened by Settlement Expansion ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2006 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. ( Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem , May 1, 2000)
Coordinates: 31 ° 36 ' N , 35 ° 14' E