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2 unusual facts about Elon Moreh


Elon Moreh

Eight times, the group tried to choose a plot of land to settle but the Israeli government under Yitzchak Rabin, then in his first term, prevented these attempts - arguing that the settlers' main aim was to secure permanent Israeli possession of the territory and that such possession would preclude any possibility of peace with Jordan or a Palestinian state.

The present location of Elon Moreh was first settled on the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat, February 1980.



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