Beit Hagai ( ) , also Hagai , is an Israeli settlement organized as a community settlement located in the southern Hebron hills in the West Bank . The settlement population was 460 in 2004 , according to a classified government document published by the Haaretz newspaper , and lies within the municipal jurisdiction of the Har Hebron Regional Council . The religious Jewish community 's name , Haggai , is an acronym of the given names Hanan Krauthammer , Gershon Klein , and Yaakov Zimmerman , three Nir Yeshiva ( Kiryat Arba ) students murdered in the 1980 Hebron terrorist attack . The community rabbi for Beit Hagai is Rabbi Moshe Eliezer Rabinovich ( HaLevy ) . In it had a population of . The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law , but the Israeli government disputes this
1980 Hebron terrorist attack
1980 Hebron terrorist attack
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