Geshur (Israeli settlement)

{{Infobox Kibbutz

| name = Geshur

| image = קיבוץ גשור.jpg

| imgsize = 150

| hebname = {{Script/Hebrew|גְּשׁוּר}}

| foundation = 1971

| founded_by = Hashomer Hatzair members

| region = Golan Heights

| country = Israel

| district = north

| council = Golan

| affiliation = Kibbutz Movement

| popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}}

| population = {{Israel populations|Geshur}}

| population_footnotes = {{Israel populations|reference}}

| pushpin_map = Syria Golan#Israel Golan

| pushpin_label_position=right

| pushpin_mapsize = 250

| coordinates = {{coord|32|49|10|N|35|42|56|E|display=inline,title}}

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Geshur ({{langx|he|גְּשׁוּר}}, lit. Bridging) is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz on the ridge of the southern Golan Heights.[https://books.google.com/books?id=rfa_CGBjVQIC&q=kibbutz+Geshur+Golan Who's left in Israel?: radical political alternatives for the future of Israel], p. 106, Dan Leon, Sussex Academic Press, 2004, {{ISBN|978-1-903900-56-7}}, accessed December 20, 2009[https://books.google.com/books?id=PS_RA6RaWpEC&q=kibbutz+Geshur+Golan Geography and politics in Israel since 1967], p. 119, Elisha Efrat, Routledge, 1988, {{ISBN|978-0-7146-3303-9}}, accessed December 20, 2009 The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.{{cite news| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1682640.stm| title = The Geneva Convention| publisher = BBC| date=December 10, 2009

}} In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Geshur}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}

Etymology

The kibbutz is named after a biblical kingdomHanna Bitan (1999) 1948-1998: Fifty Years of 'Hityashvut': Atlas of Names of Settlements in Israel, Jerusalem, Carta, p. 19, {{ISBN|965-220-423-4}} which may or may not have been in the same area.

History

=Bronze age=

File:Early-Historical-Israel-Dan-Beersheba-Judea.png

According to the Bible, during the time of King David, Geshur was an independent kingdom ({{bibleverse|Joshua|13:13}}). David married Maachah, a daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur. ({{bibleverse|2|Samuel|3:3|NIV}}, {{bibleverse|1|Chronicles|3:2|NIV}}) Her son Absalom fled to his mother's native country, after the murder of his half-brother and David's eldest son, Amnon. Absalom stayed there for three years before being rehabilitated by David. (ib. {{bibleverse-nb|2|Samuel|13:37|NIV}}, {{bibleverse-nb|2|Samuel|15:8|NIV}}) Geshur managed to maintain its independence from the Aramean kingdoms until after the time of King Solomon.[https://books.google.com/books?id=5cSAlLBZKaAC&q=Geshur+Golan The history of ancient Palestine], pp. 397-400, Gösta Werner Ahlström, Fortress Press, 1993, {{ISBN|978-0-8006-2770-6}}, accessed December 20, 2009[https://books.google.com/books?id=sTfIqbSg6YcC&q=Geshur+Golan Ancient Damascus: a historical study of the Syrian city-state from earliest times until its fall to the Assyrians in 732 B.C.E.], pp. 88-89, Wayne Thomas Pitard, Eisenbrauns, 1987, {{ISBN|0-931464-29-3}}, accessed December 20, 2009

=Modern period=

Kibbutz Geshur was founded in 1971 by Hashomer Hatzair, a socialist-Zionist youth movement,[http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/985860.html Ashkenazi, Eli, "On the Golan Heights, people say that all this talk about talks is 'just talk'"], Haaretz, May 22, 2008, accessed December 20, 2009 The village was established to the south of the Syrian village of Al-Adaisa, which was depopulated and razed, after being occupied by Israel in 1967. The first Golan Heights vineyards were planted in Geshur in 1976.[https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/85794590.html?dids=85794590:85794590&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+25%2C+2001&author=Michael+Ben-Joseph&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Golan+Heights+wines+are+fuel+for+the+soul&pqatl=google Ben Joseph, Michael, "Golan Heights wines are fuel for the soul,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024102333/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/85794590.html?dids=85794590:85794590&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+25,+2001&author=Michael+Ben-Joseph&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Golan+Heights+wines+are+fuel+for+the+soul&pqatl=google |date=2012-10-24 }} Jerusalem Post, October 25, 2001, accessed December 20, 2009

References

External links

[http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=685097 Drunk with Success]

Category:Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights

Category:Kibbutzim

Category:Kibbutz Movement

Category:Golan Regional Council

Category:Populated places established in 1971

Category:Populated places in Northern District (Israel)

Category:1971 establishments in the Israeli Military Governorate