Alon Shvut

Schewut Allon (Hebrew: אלון שבות ) and Al ( l) on Schwut, is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. It was founded in 1970 and is located southwest of Jerusalem, between Bethlehem and Hebron cities at an altitude of 959 m above sea level.

Allon Schewut Gush Etzion Regional Council is managed by and serves as a regional center for the Gush Etzion communities of. 2010 counted Allon Schewut 3033 inhabitants. The settlement is situated 4.6 km east of the Green Line and is located west of the barrier fence.

The international organizations and the international community consider the Israeli settlements in the territories occupied since 1967 as illegal under current international law ( Geneva Convention IV ). Israel, however, denies that it is occupied territory, where has the Fourth Geneva Convention validity.

Name

Allon Schewut means " oak of return" and refers to an oak tree near the town that embodies the longing to return in 1948 by the Jordanian Arab Legion from Gush Etzion, a Jewish settlement bloc, expelled Jews. The oak tree is part of the emblem of the Regional Council of Gush Etzion and serves as a symbol of renewal and resistance.

History

Allon Schewut was founded in 1970 as a community and service center for families who were associated with the emerging on-site Hesder Yeshiva Har Etzion. For years, the only clinic, the only grocery store, the only post office and the only bank were housed within a large radius in Allon Schewut.

The residents of Allon Schewut are mostly national-religious Jews, the Har Etzion Yeshiva, the visiting Duke College for Teachers and the Zomet Institute of technologically - religious research and their relatives. In addition, there are some families of returnees the pre- 1948 community.

In November 1998, the illegal even under Israeli law outpost Giwat HaHisch ( גבעת החי"ש ) was built. It consists of over thirty mobile units and is inhabited part of recently immigrated Inca Jews from Trujillo, Peru.

In 2000, a second residential doubled the size of the city to meet the growing demand for housing. Among the many new immigrants were Neuzuzügern, particularly from the United States of America.

Archaeological finds in Giwat HaHisch, which are dated to about 300 BC, the early settlement of the area show. Further evidence comes from the late Byzantine era, including a mosaic floor. Allon Schewut sits on the ancient road to Jerusalem, which is marked by Roman milestones. Many ancient ritual baths are scattered in the surrounding hills. They were probably used by pilgrims on their way to the temple in Jerusalem, which was about a day's journey. In addition, are also ancient grape and olive presses and tanks, knocked out of the solid rock that reveal a long Agrikulturgeschichte.

Geography

Allon Schewut is on well 950 m above sea level. NN in the northern Judean hills. The summers are hot and dry, winters are cold with rain and sometimes a few centimeters of snow.

The city lies a few hundred meters west of the Gush Etzion junction where the Route 60, the North-South connection that the watershed of Nazareth via Jerusalem to Be'er Sheva approximately follows, and the Route 367 to the west into the valley of Elah to the Israeli coastal Plain, and descends to Tel Aviv, cruising.

Allon Schewut lies on a northwest - southeast axis along a ridge, with a gently sloping plain to the south and steep ravines in the north. The Giwat HaHisch outpost is located on the extension of the ridge adjacent to a canyon northeast of the city.

Land question

According to a report by the Israeli organization Shalom Achschaw are 24.13 percent of the land on which the settlement was built on Palestinian private property, which violates Israeli law. Since a ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court in 1979 no Israeli settlements may be built on land that is located in the Palestinian private property. The Israeli military administration in the occupied territories, on whose statistics the report is based, however, denies that the report reflects the reality correctly.