Yair Farm

Yair Farm (Hebrew: חוות יאיר‎, Havot Yair) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.[1] Located near Nofim and Yakir, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council. It is home to around 70 families.

Yair Farm
חוות יאיר
Yair Farms Synagogue, 2021
Yair Farms Synagogue, 2021
CouncilShomron
RegionWest Bank
Founded1999
Websitehttp://havotyair.co.il/

The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.[2]

History

The village was first established in 1999 as an illegal Israeli outpost.[3] and named after Avraham (Yair) Stern, leader of the pre-state underground militant group Lehi, though the community's website notes the name of Yair ben Menashe.[4] Although it was later evacuated, it was re-established in February 2001. According to Peace Now, the parent settlement of this outpost is Yakir and 17,666 square metres (190,160 sq ft) of the area that this outpost is built on is expropriated private Palestinian land.[5] The Sasson Report reported that the Israeli Ministry of Housing and Construction had allocated 1 million NIS for the construction of several structures at the outpost.[6]

Havat Yair, lies above a fertile wadi whose fields belong to the extended al-‘Awad family dwelling in the contiguous Palestinian village of Umm al-Ara’is. The settlers of Yair farm, with the assistance of the IDF, drove the Palestinian families from their wadi, which was declared a closed military area, and established 15+ greenhouses there. The 'Awad family appealed to the Israeli courts to have their rights to the zone recognized, and in 2015, as a result, the Israeli military administration (ICA), which considers the wadi 'disputed land', demolished the settler structures that year. A further appeal by the Palestinian owners to the Israeli Supreme Court led to a ruling that delegated all decisions to the discretion and professional judgment of the Israeli administration of the West Bank (ICA).[3] In January 2021 the village was regulated by the Israeli government.[7]

References
  1. Shragai, Nadav. Outposts / 'God giveth, God taketh away' Ha'aretz. 19 June 2006
  2. "The Geneva Convention". BBC News. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  3. David Shulman, Freedom and Despair: Notes from the South Hebron Hills, University of Chicago Press, 2018 ISBN 978-0-226-56665-8 pp.4-6. In Shulman's view, the Supreme Court decision not to decide, but defer the problem to the ICA was 'equivalent to giving a burgler jurisdiction over a house he has just invaded.'
  4. Gideon Levy, Outposts 2012: Coming to a West Bank hill near you, at Haaretz, 24 April 2012:" “Yair son of Menashe took all the region of Argob, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havot-Yair, unto this day” (Deuteronomy 3:14)."
  5. Full outposts list Peace Now. Accessed 16 June 2011
  6. Yair Farm Peace Now. Accessed 16 June 2011
  7. "780 Settlement Housing Units Approved Ahead of US Presidential Transition". Peace Now. 17 January 2021.

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