Avnei Eitan , elevation 385 metres above sea level, is an
Israeli settlementIsraeli settlements are Israeli civilian communities in the Israeli-occupied territories . Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights...
,
moshavMoshav is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah...
on the
Golan HeightsThe Golan Heights is a strategic plateau and mountainous region at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains and remains a highly contested land straddling the borders of Syria and Israel. Two-thirds of the area is currently governed by Israel...
founded after the 1973
Yom Kippur WarThe Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War or October War , also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Fourth Arab-Israeli War, was fought from October 6 to October 26, 1973, between Israel and a coalition of...
in honor of six Israeli soldiers who had been killed in battle. A prominent landmark in the area is one of the starting points to the El Al stream, the other being the neighbouring moshav of
Eli AdEliad is an Israeli settlement, moshav, located in the southern Golan Heights, under the administration of Israel. It falls under the jurisdiction of Golan Regional Council and in 2006 had a population of 264....
. It is a largely
religiously observantOrthodox Judaism is a formulation of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmudic texts and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim.Orthodox...
agricultural community located in a region sometimes referred to as the
Gush HispinGush Chispin is an area in the southern Golan Heights consisting of the agricultural cooperatives of Hispin, Nov, and Avnei Eitan. The three villages are primarily religiously observant and subscribe to religious Zionism....
, or Hispin bloc, of religious communities in the southern Golan Heights.
Avnei Eitan , elevation 385 metres above sea level, is an
Israeli settlementIsraeli settlements are Israeli civilian communities in the Israeli-occupied territories . Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights...
,
moshavMoshav is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah...
on the
Golan HeightsThe Golan Heights is a strategic plateau and mountainous region at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains and remains a highly contested land straddling the borders of Syria and Israel. Two-thirds of the area is currently governed by Israel...
founded after the 1973
Yom Kippur WarThe Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War or October War , also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Fourth Arab-Israeli War, was fought from October 6 to October 26, 1973, between Israel and a coalition of...
in honor of six Israeli soldiers who had been killed in battle. A prominent landmark in the area is one of the starting points to the El Al stream, the other being the neighbouring moshav of
Eli AdEliad is an Israeli settlement, moshav, located in the southern Golan Heights, under the administration of Israel. It falls under the jurisdiction of Golan Regional Council and in 2006 had a population of 264....
. It is a largely
religiously observantOrthodox Judaism is a formulation of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmudic texts and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim.Orthodox...
agricultural community located in a region sometimes referred to as the
Gush HispinGush Chispin is an area in the southern Golan Heights consisting of the agricultural cooperatives of Hispin, Nov, and Avnei Eitan. The three villages are primarily religiously observant and subscribe to religious Zionism....
, or Hispin bloc, of religious communities in the southern Golan Heights. The moshav receives municipal services from the
Golan Regional CouncilThe Golan Regional Council is the regional council consolidating virtually all the Jewish Israeli settlements located on the Golan Heights. It is made up of 19 moshavim and 10 kibbutzim, and other villages...
.
About eighty families live on Avnei Eitan, including twenty families who had been
expelledIsrael's unilateral disengagement plan , also known as the "Disengagement plan", "Gaza expulsion plan", and "Hitnatkut") was a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, adopted by the government on June 6, 2004 and enacted in August 2005, to evict...
from
Gush KatifGush Katif was a bloc of 17 Israeli settlements in the southern Gaza strip. In August 2005, the 8,000 residents of Gush Katif were forcefully evicted from the area and their homes demolished as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan.- Geography :Gush Katif was located in the south-west...
, mainly from the former communities of
Netzer HazaniNetzer Hazani was an Israeli settlement located in the northeast corner of the Gush Katif settlement bloc and evacuated in Israel's disengagement of 2005...
and
Kfar DaromKfar Darom was a kibbutz and Israeli settlement within the Gush Katif bloc in the Gaza Strip.-Original kibbutz:Kfar Darom was founded on 250 dunams of land purchased in 1930 by Tuvia Miller for a fruit orchard on the site of an ancient Jewish settlement of the same name mentioned in the Talmud...
. There are two distinct neighbourhoods in the moshav; an "old" neighbourhood, in which each house also has a substantial plot of land, as well as the "new" neighbourhood, built after 2000, which consists of four rows of small identical houses which cater to young families, and another row of larger houses in which the former Gush Katif residents live.
The community is host to the pre-military
yeshivaYeshiva or yeshivah , or metivta or mesivta ) also frequently referred to as a Beth midrash, Talmudical Academy, Rabbinical Academy or Rabbinical School is an institution unique to classical Judaism for study of its traditional, central texts...
, or
mechinaA Mechina is an Israeli educational institution for post-secondary youth, aimed at preparing them either for their army or national service, or for entrance to an institution of higher education in Israel...
, named "Leadership Yeshiva Academy" or commonly referred to as
Mechinat Avnei EitanMechinat Avnei Eitan , also referred to as Leadership Yeshiva Academy in English, is a pre-military mechina which combines classical Yeshiva learning with the preparation for the service in the Israeli Defence Forces and leadership functions in Jewish communities...
. This particular mechina caters to
EnglishEnglish is a West Germanic language that developed in England during the Anglo-Saxon era. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political, and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, and of the United States since the mid 20th century,...
speaking students from outside of Israel interested in the army.
Rabbi Erez Levi is the rabbi of the community and also
rosh yeshivaRosh yeshiva, , , is the title given to the dean of a Talmudical academy . It is made up of the Hebrew words rosh — meaning head, and yeshiva — a school of religious Jewish education...
of the Mechinah.
See also
- Israeli-occupied territories
The Israeli-occupied territories are the territories captured by Israel from Egypt, Jordan, and Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967, consisting of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights, and, until 1982, the Sinai Peninsula...
- Israeli settlement
Israeli settlements are Israeli civilian communities in the Israeli-occupied territories . Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights...