Ma'ale Rehav'am
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Ma'ale Rehav'am or Maaleh Rehavam (Hebrew: מעלה רחבעם), is a Jewish village south of Bethlehem in the West Bank/Judea and Samaria located in the northeastern Judean Mountains.
With assistance from Amana, Ma'ale Rehav'am was founded in 2001 after, and in reaction to, the assassination of Rehavam Zeevi who was an ardent supporter of settlement of Yesha. The residents of the village pride themselves with an environmental-friendly outlook which has taken shape in olive and almond groves, a muscat grape vineyard, an orchard growing thirty-five different fruit.
The small 'mixed' community stands out in that non-religious and religious Jewish families live together. In general, while large Israeli towns and cities have heterogeneous populations, most small communities usually are either homogeneous non-religious or religious. Similarly, the village's mother community Nokdim, is also a 'mixed' community. Ma'ale Rehav'am was built on land belonging to Nokdim and originally zoned for that purpose.
The population of Ma'ale Rehav'am receives its municipal services from the Gush Etzion Regional Council.
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