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Revision as of 04:24, 22 December 2011
Revava
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| Etymology: Ten Thousand | |
| Country | Israel |
| Council | Shomron |
| Region | West Bank |
| Founded | 1991 |
Revava (Template:Lang-he-n), is a communal village and an Israeli settlement located in the West Bank's Samarian mountains about 35 km east of Tel Aviv near Yakir and Nofim, on Road 5066 roughly between Barkan and Karnei Shomron. This Orthodox Jewish community, numbering about 250 families, is under the authority of the Shomron Regional Council.
The word "revava" in Hebrew means "ten thousand". The name was chosen from the following verse in the Bible: "And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her: Our sister, you will be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those that hate them" (Genesis 24:60). The name was also very appropriate due to the village's location on the land of Ephrayim. The Bible says: "and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh" (Deuteronomy 33:17). For that same reason, the main synagogue in Revava is called "Revavot Ephrayim" (the ten thosands of Ephrayim)
The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.[1]
History
The history of the settlement on the ground began in the spring of 1991 when 14 trailers were installed on land purchased by "The Fund for Redeeming the Land", with the assistance of Amana, and with permission from the Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Minister of Defense Moshe Arens. While seven families and two single men had been the pioneer residents, only a few months later during the summer, another 10 families joined that group.
The groundwork for the settlement, however, was laid in the 1980's, when a group of idealistic Zionists contributed financial backing for the purchase of the land. Certain members of this group still have, to this day, the right to build on a plot in Revava.
From 2001 to 2006, Revava had a boys' baseball team.[2]
Peace Now and related activists were convicted by an Israeli court of smearing the village by publishing an allegedly false report which claimed that 71% of Revava was built on "stolen" Arab land. The writers of the report tried to compromise and revised that that number down to 22%, but the court sentenced them to pay compensation of NIS 20,000 and print advertisements in two mass market newspapers. The Fund owns 100% of the land that Revava is built on. [3]
References
- ^ "The Geneva Convention". BBC News. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
- ^ Revava Tigers boys baseball team
- ^ Maayana Miskin (December 11, 2008). "Peace Now to Pay and Apologize for Maligning Town". Arutz 7.