The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli and American governments dispute this.[2]
History
The settlement was established in 1974 on the site of the farm Mazraat Nab that had about 330 inhabitants before it was depopulated in 1967.[3] It was named after a village on the site mentioned in the Jerusalem Talmud.[4] The site is mentioned in the 3rd century Mosaic of Rehob.[5]
^Yigal Kipnis (2013). The Golan Heights. London and New York: Routledge. p. 246.
^HaReuveni, Immanuel (1999). Lexicon of the Land of Israel (in Hebrew). Miskal - Yedioth Ahronoth Books and Chemed Books. pp. 662–663. ISBN965-448-413-7.