Nokdim

View of Nokdim from Herodion

Nokdim ( Hebrew נוקדים) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967 , with a population of 2,052 (2016). The settlement was founded on July 5, 1982 as El-David (Hebrew אל דוד) and is located south of Bethlehem in the Gush Etzion region in the Judean Hills near the settlement of Tekoa .

According to a report by the Israeli organization Shalom Achshaw , 31.2% of the land on which the settlement was built is privately owned by Palestinians , so the settlement should not have been built under Israeli law.

history

The original name El-David goes back to two men who lived in the Jewish settlement of Tekoa and perished in 1982. Eli Pressman, an immigrant from France , died in the 1982 Lebanon War ; David Rosenfeld, an immigrant from the USA , was murdered by his Palestinian employees in July 1982. After David Rosenfeld's funeral, six families from Tekoa pitched their tents in this place and named it El-David . In December 1982 the tents were replaced by caravans. After the number of settlers had risen to over 200, the place received the status of an official settlement in 1993. In the same year, permanent dwellings were built for the first time and the place was renamed “Nokdim”, German “sheep farmer”, after the biblical prophet Amos , who according to tradition 1.1 LUT “was a sheep farmer in Tekoa”.

present

Avigdor Lieberman , the leader of the Jisra'el Beitenu party and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense of the State of Israel between 2009 and 2018, lives in Nokdim.

In June 2010, several Israeli families from Russia who wanted to settle in the settlement were turned away. The residents of the settlement asserted that the members of the families who were not considered Jews under the Jewish religious law could undermine the morality of the Jewish residents and promote their assimilation. In addition, the Jewish children threatened to be influenced by perversions and there was a danger that the non-Jews would worship idols.