{{short description|Israeli settlement in the Golan Heights}} {{pp|small=yes}} {{Infobox Israel village | settlement_type = Moshav | name = Neve Ativ | hebname = נווה אטי״ב | image = File:126632 neve ativ in the snow golan heights PikiWiki Israel.jpg | caption = View of Neve Ativ | foundation = {{Start date and age|1972}} | founded_by = | country = | district = north | council = Golan | affiliation = Agricultural Union | popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}} | population = {{Israel populations|Newe Ativ}} | population_footnotes = {{Israel populations|reference}} | pushpin_map = Syria Golan#Israel Golan | pushpin_label_position = bottom | pushpin_mapsize =250 | coordinates = {{coord|33|15|42|N|35|44|28|E|display=inline,title}} | website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20140222063629/http://neve-ativ.org.il/ neve-ativ.org.il] }} '''Neve Ativ''' ({{Langx|he|נווה אטי״ב}}), is an Israeli settlement organized as a small Alpine-styled moshav in the Golan Heights. Located on the slopes of Mount Hermon, {{convert|2|km|mi|sp=us}} west of Majdal Shams.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=K_vDAu6UoSwC&dq=Neve+Ativ&pg=PT109 ''Israel & the Palestinian territories''], p. 271, ''Lonely Planet Israel'', Michael Kohn, Lonely Planet, 2007, {{ISBN|1-86450-277-0}}, {{ISBN|978-1-86450-277-0}}, accessed December 18, 2009</ref> it falls under the jurisdiction of Golan Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Newe Ativ}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}
The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, though the Israeli and United States governments dispute this.<ref name="BBC_GC4">{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1682640.stm |title=The Geneva Convention |publisher=BBC News |date=10 December 2009 |access-date=27 November 2010 }}</ref><ref name=jp>[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-812410 ‘Golan Heights is part of northern Israel,’ White House says after Hezbollah attack] ''The Jerusalem Post''. 29 July 2024</ref>
==Etymology== The name Ativ is an acronym for four fallen soldiers from the Egoz Reconnaissance Unit killed in action in the Golan in 1968: '''A'''vraham Hameiri, '''T'''uvia Ellinger, '''Y'''air Elegarnty, and '''B'''inyamin Hadad. Neve means Oasis.<ref>Fox, Mira. [https://forward.com/news/556968/netanyahu-vacation-protest-israel-neve-ativ/ "Benjamin Netanyahu is on vacation — these protesters followed him there"], ''The Forward'', August 9, 2023. Accessed March 17, 2026. "Neve Ativ is named for four fallen soldiers, members of the Egoz combat unit who died during a 1968 operation. 'Neve' means home, or abode, and 'ativ' is an acronym for the fallen soldiers’ names: Avraham Hameiri, Tuvia Sherkenger, Yair Algranati and Binyamin Hadad."</ref>
==History== Israel and Syria fought major battles in the area in 1967 and 1973, and it remains a strategic military position.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=CxYEsYsrfGUC&dq=%22Neve+Ativ%22&pg=PA748 ''Israel handbook: with the Palestinian Authority areas'', Footprint handbooks, Dave Winter, Footprint Travel Guides, 1999], {{ISBN|1-900949-48-2}}, {{ISBN|978-1-900949-48-4}}, accessed December 19, 2009</ref> Neve Ativ was built on the land of the destroyed Syrian village of Jubata ez-Zeit.<ref>{{Citation| first1 = R. | last1 = Murphy | first2 = D. | last2 = Gannon|title=Changing The Landscape: Israel's Gross Violation of International Law in the occupied Syrian Golan|journal=Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law |year=2008|volume=11|pages=139–174|publisher= Cambridge University Press| doi = 10.1017/S1389135908001396 }}, p. 151</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=czRmAAAAMAAJ&q=jubata+zeit|page=168|title=Settlements and cult sites on Mount Hermon, Israel: Ituraean culture in the Hellenistic and Roman periods|last=Dar|first=Shimon|edition=Illustrated|publisher=Tempus Reparatum|year=1993|isbn=978-0-86054-756-3}}</ref> It was founded in 1972, when the Golan region was a part of the Israeli Military Governorate, governed by military occupation system. In 1981, the area of Golan was unilaterally annexed by Israel.
In November 1996, a dining room in the settlement was set on fire and the walls on the building had "Down With the Occupation" and "The Golan Belongs to Syria" painted on them. Pro-Syrian Druze were believed to be behind it.<ref>{{cite news|title=Police probe series of arson attacks, Golan Druse suspected|author=David Rudge|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post|date=1996-11-29|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-2934450.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018215150/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-2934450.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-10-18|access-date=2013-04-04}}</ref>
==Economy== The moshav's main industry is tourism. Since 1972, Neve Ativ has operated the nearby Mount Hermon ski resort,<ref name="Chicago Tribune" /><ref>Safier, Dovi; Geberer, Yehuda. [https://mishpacha.com/skiing-on-sacred-snow/ "Skiing on Sacred Snow"], ''Mishpacha'', January 7, 2025. Accessed March 16, 2026. "In 1972, the Israeli government transferred control of the skiing operation to the families of the newly established Neve Ativ alpine moshav on the slopes of Mount Hermon. The Neve Ativ residents continue to operate the site today."</ref> which has {{convert|25|km|mi|sp=us}} of ski runs on the southern slopes of Mount Hermon.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130102072359/http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1994/b33847.arc.htm Sandler, Neil, "As Israelis debate the fate of the Golan, skiers and investors flock to its slopes", August 8, 1994, accessed April 18, 2015]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AASB&p_theme=aasb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F1A165B12713A58&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=Gee, Robert W., "They're not heavenly, but the Holy Land has slopes," ''Austin American-Statesman'', February 10, 2002, accessed December 18, 2009 |access-date=December 19, 2009 |archive-date=February 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150222213254/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AASB&p_theme=aasb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F1A165B12713A58&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |url-status=dead }}</ref> The resort was destroyed in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, but re-opened the following year.<ref name="Chicago Tribune">[https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/611371282.html?dids=611371282:611371282&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+07%2C+1975&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Ski+resort+back+in+business&pqatl=google "Ski resort back in business,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024101634/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/611371282.html?dids=611371282:611371282&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+07,+1975&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Ski+resort+back+in+business&pqatl=google |date=2012-10-24 }} Chicago Tribune, March 7, 1975, accessed December 18, 2009</ref>
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==External links== {{Commons category}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20140222063629/http://neve-ativ.org.il/ Official website] {{in lang|he}}
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