Otniel
Year Founded :1983, on a hilltop, 3 kilometres from the neighbouring Palestinian village of Yatta. Population, Dec 2004 : 692
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Year Founded :1985Population, Dec 2004 : 344
Year Founded :1983Population, Dec 2004 : 538
Year Founded :1983Population, Dec 2004 : 429
Year Founded :1984Population, Dec 2004 : 186
Year Founded :1982Population, Dec 2004 : 141
Religious settlement in the Palestinian Tel Rumeida neighbourhood of Hebron (Khalil).
Restricts entry to the Tel Rumeida neighbourhood of Hebron, which is a point of extreme friction between Palestinians and religious Jewish settlers.
Founded : 1981Population, Dec 2004 : 6,090
Remnants of an important city from the Canaanite and Israelite periods
The Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority\'s visitors center, located in downtown Arad, introduces visitors to the geology and history of the Judean Desert.
Archeologists working at Tel Beersheva uncovered two-thirds of a settlement from the early Israelite period (tenth century B.C.E.), when a fortified administrative city was built on the tell (mound composed of the remains of successive settlements).
Year Founded :1975Population, Dec 2004 : 993
Year Founded :1969Population, Dec 2004 : 298
Year Founded :1967Population, Dec 2004 : 416