Tekoa (Israeli settlement)
Tekoa (Template:Lang-he) is an Israeli Jewish communal settlement in the northern Judean hills in the West Bank. Founded in 1977, the settlement is located 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's population consists 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 settlement's chief rabbi is the controversial Menachem Froman, who maintains close ties with Palestinian leaders from the PLO and Hamas. Rabbi Froman teaches at the local hesder yeshiva which is headed by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz.
The Tekoa Agro-Technology Farm, established in 1986, was named Enterprise of the Year in 1989 by the Israeli Journal of Agricultural Settlements.
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