Mitzpe Kramim

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Mitzpe Kramim (Hebrew: מצפה כרמים), lit. lookout/observatory vineyards, is a village and Israeli settlement located on mountain ridge overlooking the Jordan River Valley in the southern Samarian region of the West Bank in the area allotted to the Tribe of Ephraim. It is accessible by the Allon Road in the municipal jurisdiction of the Matte Binyamin Regional Council.

Mitzpe Keramim was first established in 1999 on Israeli Independence Day near Kochav HaShachar. Several second generation families from Kochav HaShachar left their homes and moved to a hill south of the village. Less than a year later, after an agreement with the Ehud Barak government, the group was relocated to a hilltop closer to Kochav HaShachar. Only a few months afterwards though, a new village, Ma'ale Shlomo, was established on that original site.

Today seventeen families including about forty children live in Mitzpe Kramim.