page_title: Hashmonaim
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hashmonaim / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Glenwood shool in Hashmonaim
context_page_description: Hashmonaim is an Israeli settlement located in the western section of the West Bank, off Route 443. Hashmonaim is located two kilometers east of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and is under the jurisdiction of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council of Israel. In 2018 it had a population of 2,760.
  The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.
context_section_description: According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated land from several Palestinian villages/towns nearby in order to  construct Hashmonaim:
  945 dunams from Ni'lin,
  186 dunams from Al-Midya,
  5 dunams from Saffa.
  Under Israeli legal rulings, this territory was claimed as unoccupied state land by the prior sovereign entity, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and thus passed to the subsequent sovereign entity in occupation, the state of Israel.
  Construction of the first homes began in December 1983. A dedication ceremony on June 12, 1984, was attended by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and the Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu. The first families moved in on August 1987. The name derives from the location of Hashmonaim in a region where the Hasmoneans lived in antiquity.
  Hashmonaim originally consisted of two neighborhoods: Ramat Modi'in was established in 1983 and Ganei Modi'in in 1985. In 1996, Ganei Modi'in became part of Modi'in Illit.
  In May 2010, three homes in Hashmonaim were demolished by Israeli security forces. The buildings were deemed to be violating a 10-month construction freeze in the West Bank.
caption: Synagogue in Hashmonaim
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