Beitar Illit

Beitar Illit
  • בֵּיתָר עִלִּית
  • بيتار عيليت
Hebrew transcription(s)
 • ISO 259Beitar ʕillit
 • Also spelledBetar Illit (official)
Official logo of Beitar Illit
Beitar Illit is located in the West Bank
Beitar Illit
Beitar Illit
Coordinates: 31°41′52″N 35°6′56″E / 31.69778°N 35.11556°E / 31.69778; 35.11556
RegionWest Bank
Founded1985
Government
 • MayorMeir Rubenstein
Area
 • Total4,300 dunams (4.3 km2 or 1.7 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)[1]
 • Total64,016
 • Density15,000/km2 (39,000/sq mi)
Websitebetar-illit.muni.il
Hachnasat Sefer Torah to the Boston synagogue in Beitar Illit.

Beitar Illit (Hebrew: בֵּיתָר עִלִּית; officially Betar Illit; Arabic: بيتار عيليت) is a Haredi Jewish-Israeli settlement organized as a city council in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc,[2] ten kilometres (6 mi) southwest of Jerusalem in the West Bank.[3] Beitar Illit is one of Israel's largest and most rapidly growing settlements,[4] and in 2022 had a population of 64,016.

Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Why Israel invented the concept of 'settlement blocs'". Middle East Eye. 26 January 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  3. ^ "City: Beitar Illit". Govisitisrael.com. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-19.
  4. ^ Joshua Mitnick (October 15, 2010). "Israeli settlement building surges as US pushes for a new freeze". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved August 21, 2012.
  5. ^ "Israeli settlements: UN Security Council calls for an end". BBC News. 23 December 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
  6. ^ "The Geneva Convention". BBC News. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2010.