Mehola () is a religious

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and

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in the

West Bank The West Bank is located on the western bank of the Jordan River and is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that make up the State of Palestine. A landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...

. Located in the Jordan Valley near the Green Line and the Palestinian village of Bardala,Isabel Kershne
Strategic Corridor in West Bank Remains a Stumbling Block in Mideast Talks,'
New York Times, 4 January 2014. it falls under the jurisdiction of

Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Bik'at HaYarden'', ''lit.'' Jordan Valley Regional Council), also Aravot HaYarden (''lit.'' Jordan Plains), is a regional council covering 21 Israeli settlements in the Jordan Valley in the ...

. With an area of 5,000

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s, 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 village was established in 1967 by

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members. It was named after the

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city of Abel-meholah (, , ), which was located in the area. The inhabitants of Mehola cultivate some of the village lands of the depopulated

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village of Al-Fatur. In 1993, it was the site of Mehola Junction bombing. In June 2012, the outpost Givat Sal'it () in the northern Jordan Valley was retroactively legalised by redesignating it as a neighbourhood of Mehola, from which it is separated by a major inter-city highway.

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* {{Authority control Moshavim Religious Israeli settlements Populated places established in 1967 1967 establishments in the Israeli Military Governorate Israeli settlements in the West Bank

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