Mevo Horon
{{Short description|Israeli settlement in the West Bank}}
{{Infobox Israel village
| name = Mevo Horon
| hebname = מבוא חורון
| meaning = Horon Gateway
| image = Castellum-Arnaldi-V2-32609.jpg
| founded = 1970
| founded_by = Ezra members
| country =
| district = js
| region = West Bank
| council = Mateh Binyamin
| affiliation = Poalei Agudat Yisrael
| popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}}
| population = {{Israel populations|Mevo Horon}}
| population_footnotes = {{Israel populations|reference}}
| pushpin_map = Israel binyamin#West Bank
| pushpin_mapsize = 250
| coordinates = {{coord|31|50|57|N|35|2|9|E|display=inline,title}}
| website = {{URL|http://www.mevo-horon.org.il/}}
}}File:Dan Hadani collection (990044455530205171).jpg
Mevo Horon ({{langx|he|מבוא חורון||Horon Gateway}}) is an Israeli settlement and religious moshav shitufi in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Located near Latrun and the city of Modi'in, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Binyamin Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Mevo Horon}}.
The settlement was established directly on the former Palestinian village of Bayt Nuba, ethnically cleansed and destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces during the Six-Day War.{{cite journal|author=Mundinger, Ulla|title=Walking on Ruins: The Untold Story of Yalu|journal=Jerusalem Quarterly|issue=69|year=2017|page=22}}{{cite web|url=https://uridavis-official-website.info/jewish_national_fund_canada.htm|author=Davis, Uri|year=2004|title=Apartheid Israel and the Jewish National Fund of Canada: The Story of 'Imwas Yalu, Beit Nuba and Canada Park}}{{cite web|author=Petersen, Kim|title=Canada: The Honest Broker?|url=https://dissidentvoice.org/Aug06/Petersen07.htm|website=Dissident Voice|date=7 August 2006}}{{cite book|author=Kanj, Jamal Krayem|year=2010|title=Children of catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian refugee camp to America|publisher=Garnet Publishing Ltd}} The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank 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 News |date=10 December 2009 |accessdate=27 November 2010}}
History
Mevo Horon was established in 1970 by members of the Ezra youth movement and was the first village in the Mateh Binyamin council area. It moved to the present site in 1974.Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p.325, {{ISBN|965-220-186-3}} (English) It is named after the biblical Beit Horon (Joshua 10:10), the modern Arab villages of Beit Ur al-Fauqa and Beit Ur al-Tahta.
Some Palestinians managed to return to the area after their expulsion from the villages of Yalo, Imwas and Bayt Nuba on whose lands the moshav was established, and gained employment as farm hands at Mevo Horon in the 1980s. During the early stages of the Al Aqsa Intifada, when the main checkpoint into Israel was moved several kilometers east of Mevo Horon and further into the West Bank, the moshav made arrangements to pick up these workers at the new checkpoint, though since they lacked Israeli work permits, difficulties arose.Tobias Kelly, Returning to Palestine: Confinement and Displacement Under the Israeli Occupation, Stef Jansen, Staffan Lofving (eds.) [https://books.google.com/books?id=xV9FAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA32 Struggles For Home: Violence, Hope and the Movement of People,] Berghahn Books, 2012 pp.25-41 pp.31-35.
On 7 June 2018 residents of Mevo Horon and Israeli descendants of Dutch Jews inaugurated the town's Chasdei Enosh synagogue, which is an exact replica of the synagogue that once stood in Terborg, in the Netherlands.{{cite web|title=Replica of Dutch synagogue destroyed in WWII opens near Jerusalem|website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date=13 June 2018|url=https://www.jta.org/2018/06/13/news-opinion/replica-dutch-synagogue-destroyed-wwii-opens-near-jerusalem}} The original in Terborg was hit by an American bomb on 8 March 1945 and was not reconstructed because there were no longer ten adult Jewish men in Terborg in order to reestablish services. In 1958, after the demolition of the ruins, an office building was erected at the location. A stolperstein marks the former location of the synagogue in Terborg.{{Cite journal |last=Bruntink |first=Henri |date=2024-09-17 |title=Hoe de Terborgse synagoge herrees in een Israëlische nederzetting |journal=Gelderse Post. Oude IJsselstreek |volume=88 |issue=38 |pages=18/19}}
References
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External links
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- [http://www.binyamin.org.il/?CategoryID=146&ArticleID=250 Official website] {{in lang|he}}
{{Mateh Binyamin Regional Council}}
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Category:Religious Israeli settlements
Category:Populated places established in 1970
Category:Mateh Binyamin Regional Council
Category:1970 establishments in the Israeli Military Governorate