Mateh Binyamin Regional Council

Mateh Binyamin מטה בנימין‎
Regional council (from 1980)
The new council building (from December 2020) at Sha'ar Binyamin
Region	West Bank
District	Judea and Samaria Area
Government
• Head of Municipality	Israel Ganz [he]
Population  (2019)
• Total	86,785
Website	Official website

Mateh Binyamin Regional Council (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית מטה בנימין, Mo'atza Azorit Mateh Binyamin, Lit. Council for the Region of the Tribe of Benjamin) is a regional council governing 47 Israeli settlements and outposts in the West Bank. The council's jurisdiction is from the Jordan valley in the east to the Samarian foothills in the west, and from the Shiloh river in the north to the Jerusalem Mountains in the south.

The seat of the council is Psagot.^[1] The council is named for the ancient Israelite tribe of Benjamin, whose territory roughly corresponds to that of the council. The region in which the Binyamin settlements are located is referred to as the Binyamin Region.

The international community considers Israeli settlements to be illegal, but the state of Israel disputes this, and this applies to all communities under the administration of Mateh Binyamin.

List of settlements[edit]

This regional council provides various municipal services for the 47 settlements within its territory:

The community settlement of Ofarim was joined with the adjacent local council of Beit Aryeh in 2003 and has ceased to exist as an independent entity. Tel Zion was a semiautonomous neighbourhood of Kokhav Ya'akov, ultimately becoming a separate locality in 2023,^[2] while Zeit Ra'anan is a semiautonomous neighbourhood of Talmon. Amona was dismantled by government order in 2016 and a new site was authorized in the Shiloh Bloc.^[3] Ginot Aryeh was established in 2001 but evacuated in 2004.^[4]

Heads of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Council website

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