Giv'on HaHadashah () is an Israel settlement in the

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, built over land expropriated from the neighboring

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villages of

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Beit Ijza Beit Ijza (, also spelled Bayt Ijza); is a village in the Jerusalem Governorate in the central West Bank with an area of 2,526 dunams. Located approximately six miles north of Jerusalem, it had a population of 698 in 2007 and 854 by 2017. Locat ...

, and

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. It falls under the jurisdiction of

Mateh Binyamin Regional Council Mateh Binyamin Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Mateh Binyamin,'' Lit. Council for the Region of the Tribe of Benjamin) is a Regional Councils in Israel, regional council Local government in Israel, governing 47 Israeli settlements and Israe ...

. 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.

History

The settlement was originally established in 1895 by

Yemenite Jews Yemenite Jews, also known as Yemeni Jews or Teimanim (from ; ), are a Jewish diaspora group who live, or once lived, in Yemen, and their descendants maintaining their customs. After several waves of antisemitism, persecution, the vast majority ...

, but they left the location after a number of years. It was named after the biblical Gibeon, in Hebrew ''Giv'on'' (Joshua 10:10-12), situated nearby.Bitan, Hanna: 1948-1998: Fifty Years of 'Hityashvut': Atlas of Names of Settlements in Israel, Jerusalem 1999, Carta, p.15, (Hebrew) The village was resettled in 1924, but its inhabitants fled as a result of the

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. It was resettled again in 1977 by members of

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, and the Israeli government eventually confiscated land from three nearby

villages in order to construct Giv'on HaHadasha roughly where the original Yemenite settlement's lands had been occupied: *186

dunam A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; ; ; ), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area analogous in role (but not equal) to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amo ...

s from

,Biddu Town Profile
ARIJ, 2012, p. 18 *159 dunams from

,Beit Ijza village profile
ARIJ, 2012, p. 16 *13 dunams from

.Al Jib Village Profile
ARIJ, 2012, p. 18 The community eventually absorbed many Jewish emigrants from the former Soviet Union, as well as many Israeli-born Jews. Although it is mostly

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in character, it is also home to a few religiously observant families.

References

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