Keshet (Israeli settlement)

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Keshet (Hebrew: קֶשֶׁת) is an Israeli settlement in the Golan Heights, organized as a moshav shitufi.

[3] Keshet is situated near the volcanic cone of Mount Peres at 710 meters (2,330 ft) above sea level.

Keshet was established in the period between the cease-fire and armistice agreement following the Yom Kippur War by national-religious and secular demonstrators who opposed an Israeli withdrawal to the pre-war line.

Four months later, the Israeli government agreed to establish the settlement, and the settlers moved to another temporary location in an abandoned Syrian military camp further west.

The community's economy is based on agriculture and tourism, and it has a field school and a religious mechina (military preparatory institution).

Keshet Synagogue