Ateret


Ateret is an Israeli settlement organized as a community settlement in the Samarian hills of the West Bank located in the municipal jurisdiction of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council 40 km north-west of Jerusalem on a hilltop at an elevation of 760 metres. To the west, the view is not obstructed from Hadera in the north to Ashkelon in the south of Israel. 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.

History

The village was one of the first settlement built after the Six-Day War. The name of the village comes from the ancient Jewish village of Ataroth that existed nearby where the current Palestinian village of 'Atara is located. It was founded in August 1981 by a group, led by Tzvi Halamish, of eight families and a few singles.
According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated land from three nearby Palestinian villages in order to construct Ateret: