Carmei Tzur
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Carmei Tzur is a Communal Settlement established in 1984 by a group of students from the Har Etzion Yeshiva in Alon Shvut. The settlement is a part of the Gush Etzion block of settlements and is a part of the Amana organisation. The settlement is located between Beit Omer and Halhul north of Hebron.
There are around 120 families living in the settlement with around 700 people in total. This includes 13 families living in the adjacent Tzur Shalem outpost and 8 families Peruvian immigrant families who have been housed there as part of an absorption program. The settlement is home to Yeshiva students, educators, academics army officers, traders, doctors. Most of the residents work in Gush Etzion or Jerusalem.
Local children are educated within the settlement until they reach school age. From Year 1 and up the children are transported to schools in Gush Etzion. The is a wide variety of after school activies provided in the settlement
Recently a new neighbourhood has been established adjacent to the settlement called Tzur Shalem in memorial of Dr. Shmuel Gillis, a senior doctor at the Haddasah Medical Center, who was shot and killed while driving home on February 1, 2001. The new neighbourhood is located to the West of the settlement and has views to Gush Dan.
In 2002 a terrorist infiltrated the settlement, broke into one of the homes and murdered Ayal Sorek and his 9-monthh pregnant wife Yael along with a reserve soldier Shalom Mordechai.[1]
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