Carmel, Har Hebron
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Carmel כרמל |
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 Carmel
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| Coordinates: 31°25′54″N 35°10′58″E / 31.43167°N 35.18278°ECoordinates: 31°25′54″N 35°10′58″E / 31.43167°N 35.18278°E | |
| District | Judea and Samaria Area |
| Council | Har Hebron |
| Region | West Bank |
| Affiliation | Amana |
| Founded | 1980 |
| Population (2015) | 407 |
Carmel (Hebrew: כרמל Karmel) is an Israeli settlement in south-east Har Hebron area of the West Bank, close to the Palestinian villages of Umm al-Kheir, who settled there several decades ago after Israel expelled them from the Arad desert, and who purchased the land from residents in the Palestinian village of Yatta. According to David Shulman, Carmel lies on lands appropriated from the Bedouin of that village. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Har Hebron Regional Council and associates ideologically with the Amana settlement movement. In 2015 it had a population of 407.
The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.
The name Carmel was chosen due to the moshav's close proximity to the location of Biblical Carmel (Joshua 15:55), the home of Nabal. Carmel is mentioned in 1 Samuel 25:2 as the home of Nabal. The new settlement is expanding, and, according to one commentator, 'continuing to usurp the land of its neighbors, who lived at the site decades before the settlers arrived.'
The moshav was founded in 1980, next to the land on which the Hadaleen Bedouin tribe live, as a Nahal military-establishment, and was "civilianized" in 1981.
Reuta Beth midrash was established in 2001 which is also a hesder yeshiva.
According to Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times Carmel is
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