Ma'ale Mikhmas

Ma'ale Mikhmas
מַעֲלֵה מִכְמָשׂ

Ma'ale Mikhmas
Ma'ale Mikhmas
Coordinates: 31°52′44.19″N 35°18′22.92″E / 31.8789417°N 35.3063667°ECoordinates: 31°52′44.19″N 35°18′22.92″E / 31.8789417°N 35.3063667°E
District Judea and Samaria Area
Council Mateh Binyamin
Region West Bank
Affiliation Amana
Founded 1981

Ma'ale Mikhmas (Hebrew: מַעֲלֵה מִכְמָשׂ) is an Israeli settlement organized as a communal settlement in the Binyamin region of the northern West Bank. Located a few miles northeast of Jerusalem, it is under the municipal responsibility of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council. In 2006, the population was 1,000.[1]

Ma'ale Mikhmas was founded in 1981 along the Allon Road by a group of families from Ma'ale Adummim. It is named after the Biblical Mikhmas (Isaiah 10:28; Esra 2:27).[2]

The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.[3]

The population of Ma'ale Mikhmas is evenly divided between native-born Israelis and immigrants from English-speaking countries, South America, France and Ethiopia. It defines itself as a religious communal settlement.[4]

Notable residents

Otniel Schneller[5]

References

  1. ↑ Israeli Angers a Settlement by Accepting Withdrawal, New York Times
  2. ↑ Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p.304, ISBN 965-220-186-3 (English)
  3. ↑ "The Geneva Convention". BBC News. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  4. ↑ About Maale Michmas
  5. ↑ חה"כ עתניאל שנלר (in Hebrew). Knesset. Retrieved 9 August 2011. מקום מגורים: מעלה מכמש

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