page_title: Susya
section_title: Israeli settlement
hierarchical_section_title: Susya / Modern era / Israeli settlement
caption_attribution_description: סוסיא בית הכנסת
context_page_description: Susya is the site of an ancient Jewish village in the southern Judaean Mountains of the West Bank, a Palestinian settlement established perhaps as early as the 1830s and a religious communal Israeli settlement under the jurisdiction of Har Hebron Regional Council established in 1983.
  The archaeological site bears remains both of a 5th–8th century CE synagogue and of a mosque that replaced it. The Palestinians on the site, at Khirbet Susya, are said to exemplify a unique southern Hebron cave-dwelling culture present in the area since the early 19th century whose transhumant practices involved seasonal dwellings in the area's caves and ruins of Susya. The toponym also refers to a Jewish community of religious Zionists who settled on land a mile from the archaeological ruins in 1986.
  In 1986, the site of Palestinian Susya was declared an archaeological site by Israeli Defense Ministry's Civil Administration, and the IDF subsequently expelled the Palestinian inhabitants from their dwellings. The Palestinians then moved a few hundred meters southeast of their original village.
context_section_description: In 1982 the Israeli government together with the World Zionist Organization furnished a plan to establish a settlement on the site, part of 8 new settlements envisioned for the area, with funding of 20 million shekels providing for between 50 and 60 Jewish families. 
  Work on the Israeli settlement began from May through to September in the following year. on 1,800 dunams of land. A major expansion began on 18 September 1999, when its boundaries expanded northwards and eastwards, with the Palestinian Shreiteh family allegedly losing roughly 150 more dunams.
  In 2008, the largest and most advanced goat pen and dairy was inaugurated at Susya with an investment of 3.5 million ILS. It can contain 1500 goats and milk 48 of them at a time. By Regavim's own calculations, by 2015, 23 Jewish/Israeli homes have been built on private Palestinian property in Susya.
caption: Susya main synagogue
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