This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Alfei Menashe (Hebrew: אַלְפֵי מְנַשֶׁה, Arabic: ألفي منشيه, lit.

Built over land confiscated from the nearby Palestinian villages of Nabi Ilyas,[2] Islah,[3] and Ras Atiya,[4] it is located in the so-called seam zone of the West Bank.

[6] According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated land from several Palestinian villages in order to construct Alfei Menashe: The town's proximity to the Green Line (less than 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east) and its similar proximity to the Palestinian Arab town of Qalqilyah has made its inclusion on the Israeli side of the West Bank barrier controversial, especially as the looping nature of the barrier's path forms a quasi-enclave of some Palestinian villages to its south.

In September 2005, Israel's Supreme Court ruled that the government must consider re-routing the barrier in this area.

(source: Google Earth)[citation needed] The settlement is the hometown of Israel's most successful mixed martial artist Noad Lahat.