Tekoa (town)

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Trilingual road sign at entrance to Tekoa

Tekoa (Hebrew: תקוע) is an Israeli settlement in the northern Judean hills in the West Bank. The yishuv was founded in 1977 on the top of a hill among ruins of the site of biblical Tekoa, 5 miles south of Bethlehem, and close to Herodion ("Herod's mountain"). The town has developed a mixed population consisting of both religious and secular residents, as well as many new immigrants from the Commonwealth of Independent States. Tekoa is within the municipal jurisdiction of the Gush Etzion Regional Council.

The Tekoa Agro-Technology Farm that was established in 1986, and in 1989 was named Enterprise of the Year by the Israeli Journal of Agricultural Settlements.

Tekoa is home to a hesder yeshiva. Rabbi Menachem Froman is the town's rabbi.

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Gush Etzion Regional Council

Kibbutzim:	Kfar Etzion \| Migdal Oz \| Rosh Tzurim
Communal settlements:	Alon Shvut \| Bat Ayin \| Gvaot \| Elazar \| Har Gilo \| Kedar \| Kfar Eldad \| Ma'ale Amos \| Metzad \| Neve Daniel \| Nokdim (El David) \| Tekoa
Outposts:	Ibei Hanachal \| Ma'ale Rehav'am \| Pnei Kedem