Gush Etzion
Metzad () also Asfar, is an Israeli settlement organised as a community settlement in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc in the West Bank. Established as by ultra-orthodox Jews in 1984, it is located south of Bethlehem in the eastern Judean Mountains, 14.5 km from the Green Line, outside the Separation Barrier. In its population was . It falls under the municipal jurisdiction of the Gush Etzion Regional Council.