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Article: Symbolism and landscape: the Etzion bloc in the Judean mountains.(Special Issue: Israel)
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- Middle Eastern Studies
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
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The monument . . . is a guide to the future; just as it confers a kind of
immortality on the dead, it also determines our actions in the years to
come.
J.B. Jackson
In the early 1940s, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) acquired lands south of Bethlehem in a region that later became known as the Etzion bloc. In the years that followed, the JNF and the Settlement Department of the Jewish Agency established a bloc of settlements on these lands that included four kibbutzim: Kfar Etzion (1943), Massuot Yitzhak (1945), Ein Zurim (1946), and Revadim (1947). These were the only Jewish settlements in the area between Jerusalem and Hebron. During ...