Mevo Hama
{{Short description|Israeli settlement in the Golan Heights}}
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{{Infobox Kibbutz
| name = Mevo Hama
| image = Mevo hama.jpg
| caption = Entrance gate to the kibbutz
| hebname = {{Script/Hebrew|מְבוֹא חַמָּה}}
| foundation = 1968
| country = Israel
| region = Golan Heights
| district = north
| council = Golan
| affiliation = Kibbutz Movement
| popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}}
| population = {{Israel populations|Mevo Hamma}}
| population_footnotes = {{Israel populations|reference}}
| pushpin_map = Syria Golan#Israel Golan
| pushpin_mapsize = 250
| coordinates = {{coord|32|44|13|N|35|39|18|E|display=inline,title}}
}}
Mevo Hama ({{langx|he|מְבוֹא חַמָּה}}) is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz in the Golan Heights. The settlement was established as a kibbutz after Israel occupied the area in the Six Day War in 1967. The southernmost Israeli settlement in the Golan, it is located {{convert|2|km|mi|sp=us}} from the Sea of Galilee at a height of {{convert|350|m|ft|sp=us}} above sea level and falls under the jurisdiction of Golan Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Mevo Hamma}}.{{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
}}
History
The second Israeli settlement established in the Golan after the 1967 Six-Day War, it was built on a Syrian military base called "Emrit Ez Edeen",{{dubious|Emrit sounds Hebrew, not Arabic; Izz ad-Din or similar for 2nd part|date=October 2015}} from which the Syrians had fired at the kibbutzim on the border (Ein Gev and HaOn). In January 1968, several members of the surrounding kibbutzim gathered and decided to establish a new settlement in the area and in September had settled the ruins of the base. They were joined in 1971 by several youth groups from Israel, Australia and England. The name of the settlement, meaning The Gateway of, or Approach to, the Hot Springs, referring to nearby Hamat Gader, was given to it by author Mattityahu Shalem.
See also
References
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Category:Populated places established in 1968
Category:Golan Regional Council
Category:Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights
Category:Populated places in Northern District (Israel)
Category:1968 establishments in the Israeli Military Governorate
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