Tekoa Town

Tekoa () is a Communal Settlement and Israeli Settlement in the northern Judea n hills in the West Bank . The village was founded in 1977 on the top of a hill among ruins of the site of Biblical Tekoa , 5 miles south of Bethlehem , and near Herodion ("Herod's Palace"). The town has developed a mixed population consisting of both Religiously Observant and Secular residents, as well as many New Immigrants From The Commonwealth Of Independent States . Tekoa is within the municipal jurisdiction of the Gush Etzion Regional Council .

The Tekoa Agro-Technology Farm that was established in 1986, and in 1989 was named Enterprise of the Year by the Israeli Journal of Agricultural Settlements.

Tekoa is home to a Hesder Yeshiva which is headed by Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz . Menachem Froman , the town's controversial chief rabbi, also teaches at this local yeshiva.

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