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For the king of Ammon, see Peduel of Ammon.

Peduel (Hebrew: פְּדוּאֵל) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the Palestinian city of Burqin, 25 kilometres (16 mi) east of Tel Aviv and adjacent to Alei Zahav, Beit Aryeh-Ofarim and Brukhin, it is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 2,220. The Shilo Stream passes to the south, and the Shilo Stream Nature Preserve borders Peduel on the north and west.

The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.[2]

History

Founded in 1984 on state lands by a group of Orthodox Jewish Israelis from Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shvut with help from Amana, the yishuv is now home to about 200 families. The town’s name is symbolic and is derived from the bible: “And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion” (Isaiah 35:10 and 51:11). The word ransomed in Hebrew is “Pedui”, and Pedu-el means “ransomed by God”.[citation needed]

On 25 March, during the 2026 Iran War, a large section of a variant of an Iranian Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missile, identified as either a Emad or Ghadr-110, landed in a schoolyard in Peduel.[3]

Education

There are many institutions located on the settlement: a nursery, three kindergartens, an elementary school, a talmud torah, and the combined pre-army and hesder Eretz Hatzvi yeshiva.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ “Regional Statistics”. Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2026.
  2. ^ “The Geneva Convention”. BBC News. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  3. ^ Shaar-Yashuv, Avishag. “A Missile Fragment in a Schoolyard”, The New York Times, March 25, 2026. Accessed March 25, 2026. “Maayan’s mother, Meitar Cohen, 32, works as a teaching assistant at the school, which is in the Peduel settlement, about 15 miles east of Tel Aviv. She has four other children, all boys; Maayan, a third grader, is the only one who attends this school, called Shilat…. According to Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear nonproliferation expert at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies, the photo shows the remnants of an Iranian Ghadr or Emad ballistic missile. Those are variants of the Shahab-3, an Iranian weapon based on a North Korean medium-range missile.”