| Beit Aryeh | |
| Settlement Type: | Local council (from 1989) |
| Pushpin Map: | Israel binyamin |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Coordinates: | 32.0375°N 35.0497°W |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | West Bank |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Judea and Samaria Area |
| Subdivision Type3: | Governorate |
| Subdivision Name3: | Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Established Date: | 1981 |
| Leader Title: | Head of Municipality |
| Leader Name: | Yehuda Elboim |
| Unit Pref: | dunam |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Name meaning |
| Blank Info Sec1: | House of Aryeh - Fawns |
Beit Aryeh-Ofarim (he|בֵּית אַרְיֵה-עֳפָרִים) is an Israeli settlement and local council in the northern West Bank. It is located 32km (20miles) north of Jerusalem and 25km (16miles) east of Tel Aviv, near the Palestinian village of al-Lubban al-Gharbi, 3.8 km kilometers east of the Green line. It is situated on the Palestinian side of the Israeli West Bank barrier,[1] on 8,500 dunams of land. In it had a population of . Israeli settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.[2] [3]
Established in 1981, Beit Aryeh was recognised as a local council in 1989. In 2004, it merged with Ofarim. Beit Aryeh was named for former Knesset member Aryeh Ben-Eliezer, a prominent Revisionist Zionist leader who was amongst the founders of Herut.[4]
According to ARIJ, the land for Beit Aryeh-Ofarim was confiscated by Israel from two nearby Palestinian villages: Aboud[5] and Al-Lubban al-Gharbi.[6] [7]
In 2011, the Israeli Ministry of Defense signed an agreement with the municipality of Beit Aryeh approving the construction of 100 homes and a bypass road between Beit Aryeh and Ofarim.[8]
In 2020, Beit Aryeh-Ofarim was one of several Israeli settlements that dumped its untreated sewage onto lands of the nearby Palestinian village of Deir Ballut.[9]