Bat Ayin

Bat Ayin (Hebrew: בת עין ) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank with 987 inhabitants ( 2010). The settlement was founded in 1989 and is part of the Gush Etzion settlement bloc. The end of 2010 the settlement counted 987 inhabitants, in 1994, Bat Ayin had 319 inhabitants.

The international organizations and the international community consider Bat Ayin, like all Israeli settlements in the territories occupied since 1967 as illegal under current international law ( Fourth Geneva Convention). Israel, however, denies that it is an occupied territory, in which the Fourth Geneva Convention is valid.

The founder of Bat Ayin were not originally orthodox Jewish Israelis who had been known to Orthodox Judaism new. You are a flow of religious Zionism to you, the Chassidic teachings of Chabad, Rabbi Nachman, Zvi Yehuda Kook and Shlomo Carlebach connects.

In 2002, tried a Jewish terrorist organization from the settlement, followers of Meir Kahane to perpetrate a bomb attack on a Palestinian girls school in Jerusalem.

On 13 July 2009, Israeli settlers from Bat Ayin set fire to Palestinian plantations, the specific destruction of almond and olive trees. In the previous month, the settlers had destroyed about 200 trees of Palestinian farmers in the area and the Israeli army had arrested 15 left Israeli activists who wanted to support the Palestinian farmers.