And a cloudy valley, the door of hope"... A verse from the book of Hosea that a group of Jerusalem Jews chose in 1872 as the name for an agricultural colony they planned to establish in the vicinity of Jericho.
Today, the settlement movements are returning to the outskirts of the city itself after settler families entered 8 houses in Al-Duyuk al-Tahta on November 4, 2026, in a move accompanied by religious and settler discourse and the slogan of dismantling Oslo. So how do religious texts become the settlement map in Jericho?