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Almog (, lit. Coral) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, near the northwestern shores of the Dead Sea, in the Jordan Rift Valley, organized as a kibbutz. It is under the jurisdiction of the Megilot Regional Council. In its population was . The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.

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Almog
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250
Israel village.foundation
1977
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Nahal
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Palestine
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Megilot
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Kibbutz Movement
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250
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אַלְמוֹג

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Almog (, lit. Coral) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, near the northwestern shores of the Dead Sea, in the Jordan Rift Valley, organized as a kibbutz. It is under the jurisdiction of the Megilot Regional Council. In its population was . The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.

==History== According to ARIJ, in 1977 Israel confiscated 524 dunams of land from the Palestinian site of Nabi Musa in order to construct Almog.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Almog” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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