Ateret ( he, עֲטֶרֶת, ''lit.'' Crown) is an Israeli settlement organized as a

community settlement A community settlement ( he, יישוב קהילתי, ''Yishuv Kehilati'') is a type of village in Israel and the West Bank. While in an ordinary town anyone may buy property, in a community settlement the village's residents are organized in ...

in the

West Bank The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...

. Located in the municipal jurisdiction of the

Mateh Binyamin Regional Council Mateh Binyamin Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית מטה בנימין, ''Mo'atza Azorit Mateh Binyamin,'' Lit. Council for the Region of the Tribe of Benjamin) is a regional council governing 46 Israeli settlements and outposts in ...

, it is located on a hilltop, at an

elevation The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § ...

of 760 metres, occupying land confiscated by Israel from three nearby

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

villages: Ajjul,

'Atara Atara ( ar, عطارة ''Atâra'') is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 15 kilometers north of Ramallah in the central West Bank. A village of nearly 2,300 inhabitants, it is situated along a mountain ridge l ...

, and

Umm Safa Umm Safa/Kafr Ishwa ( ar, أم صفا) or Um Al-Safa is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate. Location Umm Safa is located north of Ramallah. It is bordered by 'Ajjul and 'Atara to the east, Deir as Sudan and Ajju ...

. In it had a population of . The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.

Etymology

Initially, the locality was called Neve Tzof B, due to its proximity to the existing

Neve Tzuf Halamish ( he, חַלָּמִישׁ. ''lit.'' Flint), also known as Neveh Tzuf ( he, נְוֵה צוּף, links=no, ''lit.'' Oasis of Nectar), is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, located in the southwestern Samarian hills to the north o ...

locality . Later, the name "Ateret" was given, in connection with the name of the biblical city "Atarot" in the land of the

Tribe of Ephraim According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Ephraim ( he, אֶפְרַיִם, ''ʾEp̄rayīm,'' in pausa: אֶפְרָיִם, ''ʾEp̄rāyīm'') was one of the tribes of Israel. The Tribe of Manasseh together with Ephraim formed the ''House ...

. This is due to the proximity to the village of Atara , which preserves this name.

History

The village was founded in August 1981 by a group, led by Tzvi Halamish, of eight families and a few singles.Ateret
/ref> According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated land from three nearby

villages in order to construct Ateret: *363

dunams A dunam (Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount o ...

from Ajjul,'Ajjul Village Profile
ARIJ, p. 17 *163 dunums from

,Atara Village profile
ARIJ, p. 18 and *186 dunams from

.Umm Safa Village Profile
ARIJ p. 16

References

{{Matte Binyamin Regional Council Religious Israeli settlements Populated places established in 1981 Mateh Binyamin Regional Council 1981 establishments in the Israeli Military Governorate Community settlements Israeli settlements in the West Bank