Netiv HaGdud () is an
Israeli settlement organized as a
moshav 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 ...
.
[Netiv HaGdud](_blank)
Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council Located in the
Jordan Valley around twenty kilometres north of
Jericho
Jericho ( ; , ) is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, and the capital of the Jericho Governorate. Jericho is located in the Jordan Valley, with the Jordan River to the east and Jerusalem to the west. It had a population of 20,907 in 2017.
F ...
, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council.
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
According to
ARIJ, in order to construct Netiv HaGdud, Israel confiscated land from two nearby
Palestinian villages: 215
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(215000 m
2) from
Fasayil, and 993 dunams (993,000 m
2) from
Al-Auja.
The settlement was established in April 1975 by members who had been preparing in
Ma'ale Efraim, and was named after the 38th Battalion of the
Jewish legion, which
fought in the Jordan Valley during
World War I
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
.
In May 1977 it moved to its present site.
A
nearby archaeological site, which has been excavated by
Ofer Bar-Yosef amongst others, has produced remains from the
Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...
era, including
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A.
[
Ofer Bar-Yosef, Avi Gopher, Eitan Tchernov & Mordechai E. Kislev (1991) Netiv Hagdud: An Early Neolithic Village Site in the Jordan Valley, Journal of Field Archaeology, 18:4, 405-424, DOI: 10.1179/009346991791549077]
References
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Moshavim
Israeli settlements in the West Bank
Populated places established in 1975
1975 establishments in the Israeli Military Governorate