Nokdim

Nokdim (Hebrew נוקדים ) is an Israeli settlement in the occupied by Israel since 1967, the West Bank, with 828 inhabitants (2007 ). The settlement was founded as El - David (Hebrew אל דוד ) on 5 July 1982, is located just south of Bethlehem in the Gush Etzion region in the Judean hills near the settlement of Tekoa.

According to a report by the Israeli organization Shalom Achschaw there are 31.2 % of the land on which the settlement was built on Palestinian private property, so that the settlement under Israeli law should not have been built.

History

The original name of El- David goes back to two men who lived in the Jewish settlement of Tekoa and 1982 perished. Eli Pressman, an immigrant from France, fell in 1982 Lebanon war, David Rosenfeld, an immigrant from the United States, was assassinated in July 1982 by its Palestinian employees. After the funeral of David Rosenfeld represented six families from Tekoa their tents at this location, and called it El- David. In December 1982, the tents were replaced by caravans. After the number of settlers had increased to about 200, was the location in 1993 the status of official settlement. In the same year fixed dwellings were first built and the place in " Nokdim " German " sheep farmer " renamed, after the biblical prophet Amos, who " was a sheep farmer in Tekoa " the tradition according to 1.1 LUT.

Presence

Avigdor Lieberman, the chairman of the party Jisra'el Beiteinu, from March 2009 to December 2012 Foreign Minister of Israel, lives in Nokdim.

In June 2010, several Russian-born Israeli families who wanted to settle in the settlement were rejected. The inhabitants of the settlement argued that not applicable according to Jewish religious law as Jews members of the family could undermine the morale of the Jewish residents and encourage their assimilation. In addition, the Jewish children threatened by influencing perversions and it would be a risk that non - Jews would worship idols.