Esh Kodesh
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Esh Kodesh אֵשׁ קֹדֶשׁ, אש קודש |
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 Esh Kodesh
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| Coordinates: 32°04′01″N 35°20′10″E / 32.066824°N 35.336023°ECoordinates: 32°04′01″N 35°20′10″E / 32.066824°N 35.336023°E | |
| Council | Mateh Binyamin |
| Region | West Bank |
| Founded | 2000 |
Esh Kodesh (Hebrew: אֵשׁ קֹדֶשׁ, lit. Sacred Fire) is an Israeli outpost in the West Bank near Shilo. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this. The population in 2005 was under 12 families.
Esh Kodesh was founded in 2000 near Shvut Rachel, one of several such settlements in the area. It was named for a terrorist victim, Esh Kodesh Gilmore, 25, who was murdered by Palestinian terrorists while working as a security guard at a branch of the National Insurance Institute in East Jerusalem.Esh Kodesh is also a book of sermons delivered by the Admor of Piaseczno in the Warsaw Ghetto from the outbreak of World War II in September 1939 until July 1942, when the Jews of the ghetto were deported to the death camp at Treblinka.
To meet the security challenges of living in an area where their presence generates hostility, they have undergone Mishmeret Yesha self-defense training.
In 2010, the Israeli Supreme Court sentenced Zvi Strook, a resident of Esh Kodesh and the son of Orit Strook, head of the Human Rights Organization of Judea and Samaria, to 18 months in prison for the kidnapping and assault of a Palestinian teenager. In 2012, the IDF civil administration ordered Struck to vacate the land of Jalud resident Fauzi Ibrahim, which he had illegally occupied since 2010. Strook appealed the order, and when his appeal was rejected by the IDF appeals committee in 2014, he appealed to the Supreme Court. In December 2015, the Supreme Court rejected his appeal, but granted him 12 months to vacate the land.
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