According to the Hebrew web site of the Local Regional Council, 42 families live in Mitzpe Kramim as of July 2022.[3]
History
Mitzpe Keramim was established in 1999 on the Israeli Independence Day near the Israeli settlement of Kokhav HaShahar. Several second-generation families from Kokhav HaShahar left their homes and moved to a hill south of the village.
Less than a year later, after an agreement with the Ehud Barak government, the group was relocated to a hilltop closer to Kokhav HaShahar. However, only a few months later, a new village, Ma'ale Shlomo, was established on the original site.[citation needed]
Land dispute
In 2011, a group of Palestinians from the village of Deir Jarir claiming ownership over the land on which the outpost sits, submitted a petition to the High Court of Justice to have the community of some 40 families removed.[4] A JerusalemDistrict Court judge ruled in 2018 that the settlement doesn't need to be razed because it was built "in good faith" and the residents have rights to the property.
The decision was based on a policy known as "market regulation" that is used in Israeli Law whenever authorities grant building rights to unowned land and only after the building is up and residents live there, a claim is made on the land that was not known at the time of authorization.[4] A Supreme Court ruling from August 2020 overturned this decision but in July 2022 reversed its own decision and accepted the state's argument.[5]