Reihan ( he, רֵיחָן) is an Israeli settlement organized as a

moshav ovdim A moshav ( he, מוֹשָׁב, plural ', lit. ''settlement, village'') is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 a ...

in the northwest edge of 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 close to the Green Line, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Shomron Regional Council The Shomron Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית שומרון, ''Mo'atza Azorit Shomron'', English ''Samaria Regional Council'') is an Israeli regional council in the northern portion of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Thirty-five Is ...

. 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.

Geography

The settlement is located on a west-facing hillside at 387 metres

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, south of the

Ta'anakh The Ta'anakh region ( he, חבל תענך, ''Hevel Ta'anakh''), also known as Ta'anachim ( he, תענכים), is an area to the south of Israel's Jezreel Valley and east of the Wadi Ara region. The area is named after the biblical city (Joshua 17 ...

and the biblical city of the same name, and east of

Barta'a Barta'a ( ar, برطعة, he, בַּרְטַּעָה) is a town in Israel and the Palestinian territories that straddles both sides of the Green Line (Israel), Green Line in the Wadi Ara (or Nahal 'Iron) region. Western Barta'a is in the Haifa D ...

. Reihan is today home to 200, including 52 families, and it operates a

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and

poultry farm Poultry farming is the form of animal husbandry which raises domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese to produce meat or eggs for food. Poultry – mostly chickens – are farmed in great numbers. More than 60 billion ch ...

History

The moshav was established in 1977 as a Nahal outpost and populated in 1981 by civilian members of a

Labour Zionist Labor Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת סוֹצְיָאלִיסְטִית, ) or socialist Zionism ( he, תְּנוּעָת הָעַבוֹדָה, label=none, translit=Tnuʽat haʽavoda) refers to the left-wing, socialist variation of Zionism. ...

group. It is located in the "

Shaked Shaked ( he, שָׁקֵד, ''lit.'' Almond) is a secular Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank. Located near the Green Line, it is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council. In it ...

bloc", meant to ensure contiguous Israeli presence between the strategic

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and Palestinian population centres.

References

{{Shomron Regional Council Populated places established in 1977 Non-religious Israeli settlements Moshavim 1977 establishments in the Israeli Military Governorate Israeli settlements in the West Bank