Bnei Yehuda (Israeli settlement)

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Bnei Yehuda (Hebrew: בְּנֵי יְהוּדָה) is an Israeli settlement organized as a moshav located in the southern Golan Heights, under the administration of Israel.

[1] In the winter of 1885, members of the Old Yishuv in Safed formed the Beit Yehuda Society and purchased 15,000 dunams of land from the village of Ramthaniye in the central Golan.

[3] Due to financial hardships and difficulty in securing a kushan (Ottoman land deed), the site was abandoned a year later.

Soon afterwards, the society regrouped and purchased 2,000 dunams of land from the village of Bir esh-Shagum on the western slopes of the Golan.

[8] Modern Bnei Yehuda was founded in 1972 east of the former site by workers of the Negev Nuclear Research Center and Israel Aircraft Industries, following an appeal by the Jewish Agency.