Main headquarters

The Gush Etzion Regional Council (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית גוש עציון) is a regional council in the northern Judean hills, or rather, the northern part of the southern area of the West Bank, administering the settlements in the Gush Etzion region, as well as others nearby. The headquarters is located adjacent to Alon Shvut. Hebrew (עִבְרִית ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel with the West Bank, the United States, and Jewish communities around the world. ... Desert hills in southern Judea, looking east from the town of Arad Judea or Judaea (יהודה Praise, Standard Hebrew , Tiberian Hebrew ) (Greek: Ιουδαία) is a term used for the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel (Hebrew: ארץ ישראל Eretz Yisrael), an area now divided between Israel and the West Bank, and... Gush Etzion is a group of Israeli settlements built on the occupied West Bank. ...

The local council of Efrata is physically located within the territory of the Gush Etzion Regional Council, yet is an independant municipal entity. In Israel, a local council is a locality similar to a city in structure and way of life, that has not yet achieved a status of a city, which requires a minimum number of residents, among other things. ...

List of settlements

This regional council provides various municipal services for the following Israeli settlements within its territory: Map of Israeli settlements, in navy blue, in the West Bank Israeli settlements are communities built for Israeli Jewish settlers in areas that it captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. ...

Bat Ayin is an Israeli settlement in Gush Etzion, Judea of primarily Chassidic Jews that combines spiritual religious life with organic agriculture. ... Har Gilo (הר גילה) is an Israeli community 5 kilometers outside of Jerusalem with 150 families. ... Kfar Etzion is a kibbutz located in the Judean Hills between Jerusalem and Hebron. ... Kibbutz Dan, near Qiryat Shemona, in the Upper Galilee, 1990s A kibbutz (Hebrew: קיבוץ; plural: kibbutzim: קיבוצים, gathering or together) is an Israeli collective community. ... Trilingual road sign at entrance to Tekoa Tekoa (Hebrew: ) is an Israeli settlement in the northern Judean hills in the West Bank. ...

External links

• website
• ((Hebrew)) Official website