Har Brakha

Har Brakha

Har Brakha ( _he. הַר בְּרָכָה, "lit." Mount [of] Blessing) is an Israeli settlement located on the southern ridge of Mount Gerizim at an elevation of 870 metres above sea level, in the West Bank's Samarian mountains near Nablus/Shechem. The village is named after one of the two mountains that are mentioned in Deuteronomy on which half the twelve tribes of Israel ascended in order to pronounce blessings. [Deuteronomy 27:11-13] . Har Brakha shares the Mount Gerizim ridge with Kiryat Luza, the main Samaritan village.

Har Brakha was first established as a pioneer Nahal military outpost, and demilitarized when turned over to residential purposes on Yom Ha'atzmaut in 1983. Currently, over 170 families live in this Orthodox Jewish community which is within the municipal jurisdiction of the Shomron Regional Council. The rapid expansion of the village is universally attributed to the hesder yeshiva (called "Yeshivat Har Brakha", or "Har Brakha Yeshiva") that was built in 1991 as well as its rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, who is also the chief rabbi of Har Brakha. While the vast majority of students (about 150 annually) are not originally from settlements, many graduates of the yeshiva return to live on the settlement.

Until the yeshiva was built, Har Brakha was almost in danger of abandonment. Because of its location, isolated from Israeli population centres, and lack of modern amenities in the 1980s, most families that came to live, left soon after, even with motivations such as low-interest mortgages and grants. Even now that these housing subsidies are not available, demand for residence outstrips the supply of homes, the building of which is limited by the Civil Administration of the Israeli Defence Forces which sometimes completely forbids building starts essentially stopping any expansion.

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* [http://www.shechem.org/bracha/eindex.html Har Brakha profile]
* [http://sdf.shomron.org.il/yishuv/bracha.html Pictures of Har Brakha by Menachem Brody]


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