Netiv HaLamed-Heh (Hebrew: נתיב הל"ה, lit.

Located in the Valley of Elah, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.

[1] Netiv HaLamed-Heh was established on 16 August 1949 by demobilised soldiers on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Bayt Nattif.

[2] The soldiers had been members of the 4th Company of the Palmach's Harel Brigade, and the settlement was initially named Peled (an acronym for Pluga Daled, lit.

[citation needed] It was later renamed[citation needed] after the 35 Haganah soldiers killed in a convoy sent to resupply the Gush Etzion kibbutzim during the 1947–48 Civil War (Lamed-Heh is 35 in Hebrew numerals).