Батыс Жағалаудағы Израильдік қоныс: Кфар Эцион тарихы

Israeli settlement in the West Bank

Kfar Etzion (, lit. Etzion Village) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, organized as a religious kibbutz located in the Judean Hills between Jerusalem and Hebron in the southern West Bank, established in 1927, depopulated in 1948 and re established in 1967. It is located 4.7 km east of the Green Line and falls under the jurisdiction of Gush Etzion Regional Council. In , Kfar Etzion had a population of
The majority of the international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.

In January 1927, the Zikhron David society, a group of Orthodox Jews from the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, established a small farming community, Migdal Eder, on land near to the present site of Kfar Etzion. The name was taken from a verse in the Bible, Genesis 35:21, which referred to a tower of the same name.

The El haHar ("to the mountain") settlement company was founded by Shmuel Zvi Holzmann in 1933. Holzmann bought land, mostly from Migdal Eder, and leased land from a nearby Russian convent. The other three kibbutzim surrendered. The inhabitants there were taken as prisoners of war and released nine months later.

In 1967 Israel occupied the West Bank in the Six Day War. The Israeli cabinet decided to re establish the settlement of Kfar Etzion despite receiving legal advice that establishing such settlements in occupied territory would be illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention. A key figure identified with Kfar Etzion's reestablishment after 1967 is Hanan Porat, who lived on the kibbutz as a child prior to its destruction in 1948. Another figure involved in Kfar Etzion's resettlement is Elyashiv Knohl, a rabbi of the community whose father fought in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and was captured during the war by the Jordanians. According to Knohl, Kfar Etzion's original settlers were socialists, and members of the kibbutz continue to channel their incomes to a joint account. Today Kfar Etzion houses a museum and archive documenting the history of Gush Etzion. In the 2013 Middle East cold snap a meter of snow fell on the Kfar Etzion area.

Residents of Kfar Etzion earn their livelihood growing cherries, flowers, olives, almonds, and grapes. Some raise chickens, and others work in Jerusalem. As of 2012 there was a large clothing store on the settlement. In 2012 the price of a 120 square meter home on the settlement was [[Israeli new shekel while the price of a 200 square meter home was ILS1.8 million.