The Importance of Samaria in Israel's Defense: View from the place called the Balcony of Israel
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Peduel ( פְּדוּאֵל) is an Israeli village in the West Bank. Located about 10 km from the Palestinian city of Burqin, 25 km east of Tel Aviv and adjacent to Alei Zahav, Beit Aryeh-Ofarim and Brukhin, it is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council. In 2021 it had a population of 2,098. The Shilo Stream passes to the south, and the Shilo Stream Nature Preserve borders Peduel on the north and west.
Founded in 1984 on state lands by a group of Orthodox Jewish Israelis from Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shvut with help from Amana, the yishuv is now home to about 200 families. The town's name is symbolic and is derived from the bible: And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion (Isaiah 35,10 and 51,11). The word ransomed in Hebrew is Pedui, and Pedu-el means ransomed by God.
Traveling from Samaria to the Jordan Valley, take note of the mountainous and lush green landscape.
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Samaria is the Hellenized form of the Hebrew name Shomron (Hebrew: שֹׁמְרוֹן), used as a historical and biblical name for the central region of Israel, bordered by Judea to the south and Galilee to the north.
The first-century historian Josephus set the Mediterranean Sea as its limit to the west, and the Jordan River as its limit to the east. Its territory largely corresponds to the biblical allotments of the tribe of Ephraim and the western half of Manasseh. It includes most of the region of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, which was north of the Kingdom of Judah. The border between Samaria and Judea is set at the latitude of Ramallah.
The name Samaria is derived from the ancient city of Samaria, capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel. The name Samaria likely began being used for the entire kingdom not long after the town of Samaria had become Israel's capital, but it is first documented after its conquest by the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which incorporated the land into the province of Samerina.
Samaria was used to describe the northern midsection of the land in the UN Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947. It became the administrative term in 1967, when the West Bank was defined by Israeli officials as the Judea and Samaria Area, of which the entire area north of the Jerusalem District is termed as Samaria.