Migdal Oz
Migdal Oz ( Hebrew מגדל עוז) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank with 313 inhabitants (2004). In 1994 Migdal Oz had 221 inhabitants. Migdal Oz belongs to the religious kibbutz movement. "The .. name Migdal Oz means" tower of strength, strong tower "and is named after the biblical use of this name for God as protector, e.g. in Psalm 61.4" .
history
The settlement was founded in 1977 and belongs to the Gush Etzion settlement block .
Migdal Oz is partly on the land of the Palestinian village of al-Khader. Since the establishment of the settlement, land has been gradually confiscated from the Palestinian village of Bait Ummar in order to expand the settlement to the west, a total of almost 2,000 dunams .
On August 8, 2019, the body of a Talmud student was found near the settlement. The victim is 19-year-old Dvir Sorek from the Ofra settlement. He studied at a Talmud school in Migdal Oz. The victim's grandfather was the victim of a terrorist attack in October 2000.
Footnotes
- ↑ Scheel, Wolfgang: Lexicon of biblical local names in modern Israel, 3rd edition, Hammerbrücke 2003 ( ISBN 3-933750-32-6 ), p. 122f
- ↑ [The Segregation wall eats up lands of Al Khader Village] ( The Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem , November 24, 2006)
- ↑ Ahmad Jaradat, Anahi Ayala Iacucci: Settler Attacks in the Occupied Palestinian Territories During February - March 2007 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( Alternative Information Center , April 4, 2007); Amos Gvirtz: [Don't say we didn't know: Settlers continue to invade Palestinian-owned shops in Hebron] ( Gush Shalom / Jerusalemites , March 5, 2007).
- ↑ Talmud students found stabbed to death. In: Israelnetz .de. August 8, 2019, accessed August 11, 2019 .
Coordinates: 31 ° 38 ' N , 35 ° 9' E