Tuqu', also known as Tekoa or Teqoa, a Palestinian town in the West Bank.
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Tekoa Mountain, a ridge in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, United States
In May 2001, two Israeli boys from Tekoa, Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran, were murdered.
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The modern settlement was established in 1975 as a Nahal outpost.
Tekoa Mountain | Tekoa |
In February 2008, Rabbi Menachem Froman, chief rabbi of Tekoa in the West Bank, and Khaled Amayreh, a journalist close to Hamas, reached an agreement for an Israeli-Hamas ceasefire in the Gaza Strip that would put an immediate end to all Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians or soldiers, facilitate the release of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, and end the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip.
On October 30, 2002, together with David Shulman, a group that included the distinguished Israeli writers Amos Oz, Meir Shalev, A. B. Yehoshua, David Grossman, the daughter of Haim Gouri, with Rabbi Menachem Froman, co-founder of Gush Emunim and a settler in Tekoa, Ian Buruma and an assortment of Israeli television camera crews and journalists visited Yanun to assist the returned villagers with their harvest and ward off settlers.