Metzar

{{Short description|Israeli settlement in the Golan Heights}}

{{pp|small=yes}}

{{Infobox Israel village

| name = Metzar

| meaning =

| image = File:Meitzar 14-02-2014-2.jpg

| caption = Settlement entrance

| hebname = {{Script/Hebrew|מֵיצָר}}

| arname =

| founded = 1981

| founded_by =

| district = north

| country =

| region = Golan Heights

| council = Golan

| affiliation = Kibbutz Movement

| popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}}

| population = {{Israel populations|Mezar}}

| population_footnotes = {{Israel populations|reference}}

| pushpin_map = Syria Golan#Israel Golan

| pushpin_mapsize = 250

| coordinates = {{coord|32|46|05|N|35|44|13|E|display=inline,title}}

| area_dunam =

| website =

}}

Metzar ({{langx|he|מֵיצָר}}) is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz in the southern Golan Heights. The settlement was established as a kibbutz after Israel occupied the area in the Six Day War in 1967. The 29th settlement on the Golan Heights,[https://books.google.com/books?id=-eC5AAAAIAAJ&q=Metzar+golan&dq=Metzar+golan&num=100&cd=5 Near East/North Africa report, Issue 2368, JPRS (Series), United States Joint Publications Research Service, Executive Office of the President, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Joint Publications Research Service, 1981] it falls under the jurisdiction of Golan Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Mezar}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}

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=10 December 2009

}}