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The Gush Etzion Regional Council is a regional council
Regional council (Israel)

Regional councils are one of the three types of local government entities found in Israel, with the other two being list of cities in Israel and Local council ....
 in the northern Judea
Judea

Judea or Jud?a is the name given to the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel , an area now divided between Israel and the West Bank ....
n hills, or rather, the northern part of the southern area of the West Bank
West Bank

The West Bank is the eastern Part of the Palestinian territories on the west bank of the River Jordan in the Middle East. To the west, north, and south the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel....
, administering the settlements in the Gush Etzion
Gush Etzion

Gush Etzion refers to a group of Jewish villages established from the 1920s south of Jerusalem on the northern part of Mount Hebron in the southern West Bank, and destroyed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
 region, as well as others nearby. The headquarters are located adjacent to Alon Shvut
Alon Shvut

Alon Shvut is a communal settlement and Israeli settlement in Judea, within the southern West Bank, administered by the Gush Etzion Regional Council....
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The current mayor of the Council is Shaul Goldstein.

regional council provides various municipal services for the following Israeli settlement
Israeli settlement

Israeli settlements are communities inhabited by Israelis in territory that was captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, which is partially under Israeli military administration and partially under the control of the Palestinian National Authority, and in the Golan Heights, which are under Isr...
s within its territory: Historic Gush Etzion
Gush Etzion

Gush Etzion refers to a group of Jewish villages established from the 1920s south of Jerusalem on the northern part of Mount Hebron in the southern West Bank, and destroyed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
: Judean Mountains
Judean Mountains

The Judean Mountains, also referred to as the Judean Hills or Hebron Hills and Jibal al-Khalil, is the name for the mountain range of the Judea region upon which Jerusalem and several other biblical cities are located....
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All of the settlements in the historic Gush Etzion area are on the Israeli side of the West Bank Barrier, except for Carmei Tzur
Carmei Tzur

Karmei Tzur is a Communal settlement established in 1984 by a group of students from the Har Etzion Yeshiva in Alon Shvut, named after the nearby Hasmonean fortress of Beth-zur....
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Gush Etzion Municipality
The Gush Etzion Regional Council is a regional council
Regional council (Israel)

Regional councils are one of the three types of local government entities found in Israel, with the other two being list of cities in Israel and Local council ....
 in the northern Judea
Judea

Judea or Jud?a is the name given to the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel , an area now divided between Israel and the West Bank ....
n hills, or rather, the northern part of the southern area of the West Bank
West Bank

The West Bank is the eastern Part of the Palestinian territories on the west bank of the River Jordan in the Middle East. To the west, north, and south the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel....
, administering the settlements in the Gush Etzion
Gush Etzion

Gush Etzion refers to a group of Jewish villages established from the 1920s south of Jerusalem on the northern part of Mount Hebron in the southern West Bank, and destroyed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
 region, as well as others nearby. The headquarters are located adjacent to Alon Shvut
Alon Shvut

Alon Shvut is a communal settlement and Israeli settlement in Judea, within the southern West Bank, administered by the Gush Etzion Regional Council....
.

The current mayor of the Council is Shaul Goldstein.

List of settlements

This regional council provides various municipal services for the following Israeli settlement
Israeli settlement

Israeli settlements are communities inhabited by Israelis in territory that was captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, which is partially under Israeli military administration and partially under the control of the Palestinian National Authority, and in the Golan Heights, which are under Isr...
s within its territory: Historic Gush Etzion
Gush Etzion

Gush Etzion refers to a group of Jewish villages established from the 1920s south of Jerusalem on the northern part of Mount Hebron in the southern West Bank, and destroyed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
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  • Alon Shvut
    Alon Shvut

    Alon Shvut is a communal settlement and Israeli settlement in Judea, within the southern West Bank, administered by the Gush Etzion Regional Council....
  • Bat Ayin
    Bat Ayin

    Bat Ayin is an Israeli settlement and communal settlement in Gush Etzion, on the edge of the Judean hills and the Shephelah, inhabited primarily by baal teshuvah Religious Zionism Jews who adhere to Chassidic philosophy that combines spiritual religious life with organic agriculture....
  • Carmei Tzur
    Carmei Tzur

    Karmei Tzur is a Communal settlement established in 1984 by a group of students from the Har Etzion Yeshiva in Alon Shvut, named after the nearby Hasmonean fortress of Beth-zur....
  • Gvaot
    Gvaot

    Gvaot is an Israeli settlement located in Gush Etzion, in the westernmost area of the settlement bloc. The location is strategically located above the highway from Gush Etzion to Beit Shemesh and the Shephelah....
  • Elazar
  • Har Gilo
    Har Gilo

    Har Gilo is an Israeli settlement and communal settlement located about five kilometers south of Jerusalem, and two kilometers west of Bethlehem in the northern Judean hills of the West Bank....
  • Kfar Etzion
    Kfar Etzion

    Kfar Etzion is a religious Israeli settlement and kibbutz located in the Judean Hills between Jerusalem and Hebron in the southern West Bank. It falls under the jurisdiction of Gush Etzion Regional Council....
     (kibbutz
    Kibbutz

    A kibbutz is a Intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The kibbutz is a form of communal living that combines socialism and Zionism....
    )
  • Migdal Oz
    Migdal Oz

    The Stella K. Abraham Beit Midrash for Women, more commonly known as Migdal Oz , which is the name of Migdal Oz in which it is located, is a midrasha, or Orthodox Judaism institution of higher Torah study for women, located in Gush Etzion, Israel....
     (kibbutz)
  • Neve Daniel
    Neve Daniel

    Neve Daniel is a communal settlement and Israeli settlement located in western Gush Etzion in Judea, in the southern West Bank. Located south of Jerusalem and just west of Bethlehem, it sits atop one of the highest points in the area - close to 1,000 meters above sea level, and has a view of much of the Israeli Coastal Plain to the west, as...
  • Rosh Tzurim
    Rosh Tzurim

    Rosh Tzurim is a religious Israeli settlement and kibbutz in the Gush Etzion area of the West Bank. A member of the Religious Kibbutz Movement, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gush Etzion Regional Council....
     (kibbutz)
Judean Mountains
Judean Mountains

The Judean Mountains, also referred to as the Judean Hills or Hebron Hills and Jibal al-Khalil, is the name for the mountain range of the Judea region upon which Jerusalem and several other biblical cities are located....
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  • Ibei Hanachal
  • Kedar
  • Kfar Eldad
    Kfar Eldad

    Kfar Eldad is an Israeli settlement and a communal settlement in the Gush Etzion Regional Council, south of Jerusalem. The settlement is in the vicinity of Herodion and overlooks the Judean Desert....
  • Ma'ale Amos
    Ma'ale Amos

    Ma'ale Amos is an ultra-Orthodox community and Israeli settlement in the Judaean Desert, established in 1981. It is a member of the Gush Etzion Regional Council....
  • Ma'ale Rehav'am
    Ma'ale Rehav'am

    Ma'ale Rehav'am or Maaleh Rehavam , is an Israeli settlement south of Bethlehem and northeast of Hebron in the West Bank, located in the northeastern Judean Mountains on Road 3698....
  • Metzad
    Metzad

    Metzad , also known as Asper, is a Haredi communal settlement and Israeli settlement in the Gush Etzion Regional Council. The settlement was established in 1984 by aliya from the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa and France....
  • Nokdim (El David)
    Nokdim

    Nokdim , is a communal settlement and Israeli settlement located south of Bethlehem in the northern Judean hills of the West Bank. The yishuv was founded on July 5, 1982, by residents of Tekoa , and is within the municipal jurisdiction of the Gush Etzion Regional Council....
  • Pnei Kedem
    Pnei Kedem

    Pnei Kedem , is an Israeli settlement south of Bethlehem in the West Bank located in the eastern Judean Mountains near the Arugot Stream at an elevation of 900 metres above sea level....
  • Tekoa
    Tekoa (town)

    Tekoa is an Israeli Jewish communal settlement in the northern Judean hills in the West Bank. Founded in 1977, the settlement is located on the top of a hill among ruins of the site of Tekoa , 5 miles south of Bethlehem, and near Herodion ....


All of the settlements in the historic Gush Etzion area are on the Israeli side of the West Bank Barrier, except for Carmei Tzur
Carmei Tzur

Karmei Tzur is a Communal settlement established in 1984 by a group of students from the Har Etzion Yeshiva in Alon Shvut, named after the nearby Hasmonean fortress of Beth-zur....
. None of the settlements in the Judean Mountains area are, except for Kedar which is located far north of the others very close to Maale Adummim and is within the eastern Jerusalem section of the barrier.

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