Har Adar

Har Adar
  • הַר אֲדָר
  • هار أدار
Local council (from 1995)
Har Adar is located in the West Bank
Har Adar
Har Adar
Coordinates: 31°49′34″N 35°07′47″E / 31.82611°N 35.12972°E / 31.82611; 35.12972
RegionWest Bank
DistrictJudea and Samaria Area
GovernorateJerusalem Governorate
Founded1982
Government
 • Head of MunicipalityHen Filipowicz (since 2013)
Area
 • Total994 dunams (99.4 ha or 246 acres)
Population
 (2022)[1]
 • Total4,065
 • Density4,100/km2 (11,000/sq mi)
Name meaningMount Adar

Har Adar (Hebrew: הַר אֲדָר) is an Israeli settlement organized as a local council in the Seam Zone and the Maccabim sub-region of the West Bank. Founded in 1986,[2] it had a population of 4,065 in 2022. It is located near Abu Ghosh and the Green Line on Road 425, approximately 15 kilometers west of Jerusalem. Har Adar is ranked high on the Israeli socio-economic scale, at 9/10.[3] Har Adar was initially built adjacent to the Green Line but is now largely located within the West Bank.[4][5]

The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.[6]

  1. ^ "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  2. ^ Uri Blau Har Adar Is Over the Green Line, but Its Residents Don't Like to Be Called Settlers Haaretz 15 March 2013
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  4. ^ Shaul Ephraim Cohen (June 1993). The Politics of Planting: Israeli-Palestinian Competition for Control of Land in the Jerusalem Periphery. University of Chicago Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-226-11276-3.
  5. ^ Kershner, Isabel (26 September 2017). "Palestinian Gunman Kills 3 Israelis at West Bank Crossing". The New York Times.
  6. ^ "The Geneva Convention". BBC News. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 27 September 2011.