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Revava
Hebrew	רְבָבָה
Founded	1991
Council	Shomron
Region	West Bank
Coordinates	32°7′7.62″N 35°7′43.31″E / 32.1187833°N 35.1286972°E / 32.1187833; 35.1286972Coordinates: 32°7′7.62″N 35°7′43.31″E / 32.1187833°N 35.1286972°E / 32.1187833; 35.1286972
Revava

Revava (Hebrew: רְבָבָה‎), is a communal village and an Israeli settlement located in the West Bank's Samarian mountains about 35 km east of Tel Aviv near Yakir and Nofim, on Road #5066 roughly between Barkan and Karnei Shomron. This Orthodox Jewish community, numbering about 150 families, is under the authority of the Shomron Regional Council.

History

The history of the settlement began in the spring of 1991 when 14 trailers were installed on land purchased by "The Fund for Redeeming the Land", with the assistance of Amana, and with permission from the Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Minister of Defense Moshe Arens. While seven families and two single men had been the pioneer residents, only a few months later during the summer, another 10 families joined that group.

Doubts to the real ownership of the land of the village was dispelled when Peace Now and related activists were convicted by an Israeli court of smearing the village by publishing a false report which claimed that 71% of Revava was built on "stolen" Arab land. The writers of the report tried to compromise and revised that that number down to 22%, but the court sentenced them to pay compensation of NIS 20,000 and print advertisements in two mass market newspapers. The Fund owns 100% of the land that Revava is built on. ^[1]

References

External links

• town website (Hebrew)
• Menachem Brody's photos of Revava