'Peaks') is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, located on Tawil hill, adjacent to the Palestinian cities of Ramallah and al-Bireh.
[5] The name Psagot was proposed by one of the early residents, Moshe Bar-Asher, a professor and head of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
[9] According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated 780 dunams of land from the nearby Palestinian town of Al-Bireh in order to construct Psagot.
In 1981, Ariel Sharon, then Israeli Minister of Defense, told Pinchas Wallerstein, head of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council, that he would support initiatives to settle the area.
[11] During the course of the Second Intifada, snipers shot at Psagot from buildings in Ramallah, leading to the construction of a concrete wall to protect the inhabitants.
[12] In November 2009, the Psagot settlement and Regavim petitioned the High Court of Justice in an unsuccessful attempt to stop construction of the Al-Bireh International Stadium, citing security concerns.
[13] The Sasson Report identified Psagot as the "parent settlement" of an Israeli outpost known as Mitzpe HaAi (Hebrew: מִצְפֵּה הָעָי) located approximately 400 m to the southeast.
[4] According to the Independent, in 2007 the Falic family of Florida, who own Duty Free America, purchased 32,000 shares in Psagot winery for 4.1 million shekels, becoming majority shareholders and directors.
[19] In addition to a modern barrel cellar, some of the oak barriques are stored in a cave dating back to the Second Temple era.
[22][23] The American evangelical Christian organization HaYovel has sent volunteers to tend and harvest Psagot Winery's vineyards.
Writing in November 2019, Gideon Levy and Alex Levac noted: "The land is owned by Palestinians, with documents to prove it – but is now the site of a Jewish winery."[..]
"[27]In November 2020, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo became the first top US official to visit an Israeli settlement including the Psagot Winery.
[30] The Winnipeg Jewish university instructor David Kattenburg won a similar judgement in a Canadian court against the fraudulent branding of settlement wines for export, naming the Psagot products on sale in his country.