Keshet (moshav)
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Keshet (also Qeshet, Hebrew: קשת) is an Israeli settlement in the disputed Golan Heights. It is a moshav, established in 1974 after the Yom Kippur War by the Mizrakhi Workers movement near the abandoned Syrian city of Quneitra. Its name is a translation of the name Quneitra (arch), and is also a Hebrew acronym of "kuneitra shelanu tamid" (Hebrew: "קוניטרה שלנו תמיד"), meaing "Quneitra is ours forever".
Keshet is situated near the Volcanic cone of Tel Fares at 710m above sea level, on Highway 87 between Keshet Junction and Bashan Junction. Its population as of 2005 was 524.[1] The community's economy is based on agriculture and tourism, and it has a field school and a religious Mechina (military preparatory institution).
Keshet was established in the period between the cease-fire and armistice agreement following the Yom Kippur War by national-religious demonstrators who opposed an Israeli withdrawal to the pre-war line. They initially settled in a bunker in the fringes of Quneitra, but were forced to relocate to an abandoned Syrian farm when Quneitra was returned to Syria as part of the armistice agreement. Four months later, the Israeli government agreed to establish the settlement, and the settlers moved to another temporary location in an abandoned Syrian military camp further west. The settlement at its present location was established in 1978.
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