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Har Brakha

Israeli settlement in the West Bank

Summary

Israeli settlement in the West Bank

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name	Har Brakha
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meaning	Mount of Blessing
founded	1983
founded_by	Nahal
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council	Shomron
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website	https://yhb.co.il/

Har Brakha, more commonly spelled Har Bracha () is an Israeli settlement located on the southern ridge of Mount Gerizim at an elevation of 870 m above sea level, in the West Bank's Samarian Mountains, near the Palestinian city of Nablus. Har Brakha is named after one of the two mountains that are mentioned in Deuteronomy on which half of the twelve tribes of Israel ascended in order to pronounce blessings, and shares the Mount Gerizim ridge with Kiryat Luza, the main Samaritan village. It is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council. In it had a population of .

The rabbi of Har Bracha and the Har Bracha Yeshiva is Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, author of the Peninei Halakha book series.

The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law. The Israeli government disputes this.

The land of Har Brakha was confiscated by the Israelis from three nearby Palestinian villages: mostly from Burin, but also from Kafr Qallil and Iraq Burin.

History

Har Brakha was first established as a pioneer Nahal military outpost, and demilitarized when turned over to residential purposes on Yom Ha'atzmaut (Independence Day) in 1983. The rapid expansion of the village is universally attributed to the local national-religious Rabbinic school, Yeshivat Har Brakha, which was built in 1991 as well as its head or rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, who is also the chief rabbi of Har Brakha. While the vast majority of students (about 150 annually) are not originally from settlements, many graduates of the yeshiva return to live in the settlement.

Evangelical Christians from the United States have joined the community, with the support of Rabbi Melamed, and their presence has aroused some controversy among residents.

Neighborhoods

The view from the neighborhood of the buildings on Har Bracha

After the construction of several hundred private houses on Har Bracha, the members of the settlement decided to start building four-, five- and six-story buildings. This decision was made in order to lower the price for apartments and give young couples the opportunity to buy flats in the village. As part of the construction, a boys school and a girls school were also established in Har Bracha, together with eleven kindergartens.

References

Deuteronomy 27:11-13
(10 December 2009). "The Geneva Convention". BBC News.
[https://www.ochaopt.org/content/how-dispossession-happens-takeover-palestinian-water-springs-israeli-settlers-march-2012 How dispossession happens. The humanitarian impact of the takeover of Palestinian springs by Israeli settlers] {{webarchive. link. (2014-02-24 , March 2012, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs occupied Palestinian territory)
[http://vprofile.arij.org/nablus/pdfs/vprofile/Burin_vp_en.pdf Burin Village Profile], [[Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem. ARIJ]], p. 17
[https://web.archive.org/web/20170817040516/http://vprofile.arij.org/nablus/pdfs/vprofile/Kafr%20Qalill_vp_en.pdf Kafr Qallil Village Profile], ARIJ, p. 15
[http://poica.org/2009/10/the-expansion-of-the-colony-of-brakha-at-the-expense-of-iraq-burin-lands/ The Expansion of the Colony of Brakha at the Expense of Iraq Burin Lands], October 1, 2009, POICA
Tzofia Hirschfeld, [http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4153565,00.html 'Har Bracha Residents: Christians Out!,'] at [[Ynet]] 2 December 2011.
Nitzan Kedar. (12 November 2020). "חיים של ברכה בהר ברכה".

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