Alei Zahav


Alei Zahav is an Israeli settlement organized as a community settlement located on the western edge of the northern West Bank, about 40 km east of Tel Aviv, and overlooking Israel's main Ben Gurion International Airport. The town, under the administrative municipal government of the Shomron Regional Council, is adjacent to Peduel and Beit Aryeh. In its population was.
Israeli outposts are unauthorized in Israeli law, while Israeli settlements are considered illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.

History

Founded in 1983 on Israeli state lands by non-Orthodox Jewish Israelis from the Beitar and Herut movements, the settlement is now home to about 120 families. The town is named after Aliza Begin, the wife of former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin. The original name of the town had been Yoezer.
It is now expanding into a settlement called Leshem.
Alei Zahav is founded on land which Israel expropriated from the Palestinian towns of Deir Ballut and Kafr ad-Dik.