This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Beit Ummar (Arabic: بيت اُمّر) is a Palestinian town located eleven kilometers northwest of Hebron in the Hebron Governorate of the State of Palestine.

Since the Second Intifada, unemployment ranges between 60 and 80 percent due mostly to the inability of residents to work in Israel and a depression in the Palestinian economy.

[4] A part of the city straddles Road 60 and due to this, several propositions of house demolition have occurred.

[11] Ben-Zvi raises the possibility that remnants of an ancient Jewish population may exist in the village.

Mujir ad-Din writes that Matta was "a holy man from the people of the house of the prophecy."

[14][15] In 1226, the Ayyubid sultan al-Mu'azzam built a mosque with a minaret under the supervision of Jerusalem governor Rashid ad-Din al-Mu'azzami.

[20] In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Beit Ummar as a "small but conspicuous village standing on the watershed, and visible from some distance on the north.

[29] Beit Ummar became a municipality on April 17, 1997, after the dismantlement of the Israeli village council and Hussein Badr was appointed by the Palestinian National Authority.

[5] Israel has confiscated[31] or expropriated[32] approximately 4,000 dunams of village land in order to construct Israeli bypass roads and several Israeli settlements: Karmei Zur, Migdal Oz, Kfar Etzion and Efrat.

The town is governed by a municipal council consisting of thirteen members including the mayor.