Lapid (community settlement) explained

Lapid
Foundation:1996
District:center
Council:Hevel Modi'in
Pushpin Map:Israel center ta
Pushpin Mapsize:250
Pushpin Label Position:top
Coordinates:31.9164°N 35.0331°W

Lapid (Hebrew: לַפִּיד||Torch) is an Israeli community settlement. Located in the Latrun salient of the Green Line near Modi'in Illit, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In it had a population of .

History

Lapid was established in 1996. According to B'Tselem, it was built on a strip of land designated no man's land inside the Green Line. Before the Six-Day War in 1967, this territory did not belong to either Jordan or Israel.[1]

According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated 441 dunams of land from the Palestinian village of Saffa after 1967 for the construction of Lapid.[2]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.nodo50.org/csca/palestina/asentamientos2002/Land_Grab_Eng.doc Land grab: Israel's Settlement Policy in the West Bank
  2. http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Saffa_vp_en.pdf Saffa village profile