Geshur (Israeli settlement)

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Geshur (Hebrew: גְּשׁוּר, lit.

Bridging) is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz on the ridge of the southern Golan Heights.

According to the Bible, during the time of King David, Geshur was an independent kingdom (Joshua 13:13).

13:37, 15:8) Geshur managed to maintain its independence from the Aramean kingdoms until after the time of King Solomon.

[6][7] Kibbutz Geshur was founded in 1971 by Hashomer Hatzair, a socialist-Zionist youth movement,[8] The village was established to the south of the Syrian village of Al-Adaisa, which was depopulated and razed, after being occupied by Israel in 1967.

Location of biblical Geshur