Yair Farm () is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, built as an Israeli outpost in 1999 and legalized in 2021 by the Israeli government.[Shragai, Nadav. Outposts / 'God giveth, God taketh away' Ha'aretz. 19 June 2006]
The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.
History
The village was first established in 1999 as an
Israeli outpost and named after
Avraham Stern, leader of the pre-state underground militant group Lehi, though the community's website notes the name of Yair ben Menashe.
[Gideon Levy, Outposts 2012: Coming to a West Bank hill near you, at Haaretz, 24 April 2012:" “Yair son of Menashe took all the region of Argob, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havot-Yair, unto this day” (Deuteronomy 3:14)."] Although it was later evacuated, it was re-established in February 2001. According to
Peace Now, the parent settlement of this outpost is
Yakir and of the area that this outpost is built on is expropriated private Palestinian land.
[ Full outposts list Peace Now. Accessed 16 June 2011] The
Sasson Report reported that the Israeli Ministry of Housing and Construction had allocated 1 million Israeli new shekels for the construction of several structures at the outpost.
[ Yair Farm Peace Now. Accessed 16 June 2011]
In January 2021, the outpost was regulated by the Israeli government, which declared it "a neighborhood of the Yakir".
