Migdalim

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Migdalim (Hebrew: מגדלים) is an Israeli settlement located 45 kilometres east of Tel Aviv in the jurisdiction of the Shomron Regional Council on the Samarian part of the West Bank. It is situated on road 505, otherwise known as the Trans-Samaria Highway. The village lies adjacent to the Palestinian hamlet of Kutzra. The population of Migdalim is 44 families.

Migdalim was first established on 1984 as a pioneer Nahal military outpost, and demilitarized when turned over to residential purposes in 1986 to non-Orthodox Jewish Israelis. One of the reasons for choosing this location was to provide a continuity of settlements along the Trans-Samaria Highway until the eastern Israeli-Jordanian border in the Jordan Valley.

On March 1 2006, Eldar Abiri, a resident of Migdalim married with two children, was shot and killed by terrorists while working in the local gas station.