Meshek Achiya (Achiyah Farm)
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ארץ זית שמן מובחר- משק אחיה בע"מ
Head office: Melachot HaMishkan 9, Shiloh Industrial Zone 44830, Occupied Palestinian Territory. Tel.: +972-2-9401313
A private Israeli wine and olive oil producer and marketer, based in the settlement of Shiloh in the occupied West Bank. The company also produces and markets olives, tahini, honey, crackers, spices, and more.
Meshek Achiya has two registered companies under the same ownership, Eretz Zeit Shemen Muvchar – Meshek Achiya Ltd., which engages in the cultivation, production and marketing of olive oil, and Meshek Achiya Vineyards Ltd., which grows grapes for wine production. The company sells its wines under the name Tene.
The company has olive groves spanning 350 dunams and vineyards spanning hundreds of dunams of Palestinian land, and it operates an olive oil press in the Shilo settlement area.
The farm’s olive oil is labeled "Made in Israel”.
Meshek Achiya was established in 2003 in the illegal Achiya outpost located east of the settlement of Shiloh on hundreds of dunams of agricultural land belonging to the residents of the Palestinian villages of Jalud and Qaryut. Meshek Achiya grows olives on private Palestinian lands and lands that some were declared state lands that settlers and the army have prevented Palestinians from entering to cultivate.
The Achiya outpost was established in the late 1990s and as early as 2009, evacuation orders were issued by the Civil Administration to prevent the illegal cultivation of the land, but the orders have not been implemented.
Between 2014 and 2022, the farm received from the Israeli Government Water Authority an annual allocation of almost 100,000 cubic meters of water, making it one of the largest users of water for settlement agricultural purposes in the entire West Bank.
In January 2017, Palestinians from the Jalud area filed the Israeli court a petition claiming that their lands are being illegally cultivated by settlers who expelled them from there, including 177 dunams of privately owned Palestinian land cultivated by the Meshek Achiya, belonging to the Khatib and Fawzi Ibrahim families.
In May 2021, the High Court ordered the Civil Administration to evacuate the lands illegally cultivated by the settlers' farm. In October 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense reached an agreement with the settlers, according to which they would evacuate the area themselves, and in return, the state would provide them with alternative land to which their olive trees would be relocated.
In September 2023, the government granted the company an area of 159 dunams north of the settlement of Kohav Hashachar in the northern West Bank, in an area that is not part of the settlement's jurisdiction, for field crops on a lease without an agreement. (Government Subcommittee Decision No. 1089 from September 2023, updated February 2024). The factory moved from the outpost to the settlement of Shiloh.
Services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense
In 2020, the Israeli Ministry of Defense purchased olive oil from the company.
Collaboration with Ariel University
In 2018, Ariel University collaborated with Meshek Achiya in a conference held with the Research and Development of Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley association, which took place on a 40-dunam plot belonging to the Khatib family from the village of Qaryut, which was invaded by the settlers' farm in 2007.
A private Israeli wine and olive oil producer and marketer, based in the settlement of Shiloh in the occupied West Bank. The company also produces and markets olives, tahini, honey, crackers, spices, and more.
Meshek Achiya has two registered companies under the same ownership, Eretz Zeit Shemen Muvchar – Meshek Achiya Ltd., which engages in the cultivation, production and marketing of olive oil, and Meshek Achiya Vineyards Ltd., which grows grapes for wine production. The company sells its wines under the name Tene.
The company has olive groves spanning 350 dunams and vineyards spanning hundreds of dunams of Palestinian land, and it operates an olive oil press in the Shilo settlement area.
The farm’s olive oil is labeled "Made in Israel”.
Meshek Achiya was established in 2003 in the illegal Achiya outpost located east of the settlement of Shiloh on hundreds of dunams of agricultural land belonging to the residents of the Palestinian villages of Jalud and Qaryut. Meshek Achiya grows olives on private Palestinian lands and lands that some were declared state lands that settlers and the army have prevented Palestinians from entering to cultivate.
The Achiya outpost was established in the late 1990s and as early as 2009, evacuation orders were issued by the Civil Administration to prevent the illegal cultivation of the land, but the orders have not been implemented.
Between 2014 and 2022, the farm received from the Israeli Government Water Authority an annual allocation of almost 100,000 cubic meters of water, making it one of the largest users of water for settlement agricultural purposes in the entire West Bank.
In January 2017, Palestinians from the Jalud area filed the Israeli court a petition claiming that their lands are being illegally cultivated by settlers who expelled them from there, including 177 dunams of privately owned Palestinian land cultivated by the Meshek Achiya, belonging to the Khatib and Fawzi Ibrahim families.
In May 2021, the High Court ordered the Civil Administration to evacuate the lands illegally cultivated by the settlers' farm. In October 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense reached an agreement with the settlers, according to which they would evacuate the area themselves, and in return, the state would provide them with alternative land to which their olive trees would be relocated.
In September 2023, the government granted the company an area of 159 dunams north of the settlement of Kohav Hashachar in the northern West Bank, in an area that is not part of the settlement's jurisdiction, for field crops on a lease without an agreement. (Government Subcommittee Decision No. 1089 from September 2023, updated February 2024). The factory moved from the outpost to the settlement of Shiloh.
Services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense
In 2020, the Israeli Ministry of Defense purchased olive oil from the company.
Collaboration with Ariel University
In 2018, Ariel University collaborated with Meshek Achiya in a conference held with the Research and Development of Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley association, which took place on a 40-dunam plot belonging to the Khatib family from the village of Qaryut, which was invaded by the settlers' farm in 2007.
Meshek Achiya (Achiyah Farm)
ארץ זית שמן מובחר- משק אחיה בע"מ
Head office: Melachot HaMishkan 9, Shiloh Industrial Zone 44830, Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Tel.: +972-2-9401313
A private Israeli wine and olive oil producer and marketer, based in the settlement of Shiloh in the occupied West Bank. The company also produces and markets olives, tahini, honey, crackers, spices, and more.
Meshek Achiya has two registered companies under the same ownership, Eretz Zeit Shemen Muvchar – Meshek Achiya Ltd., which engages in the cultivation, production and marketing of olive oil, and Meshek Achiya Vineyards Ltd., which grows grapes for wine production. The company sells its wines under the name Tene.
The company has olive groves spanning 350 dunams and vineyards spanning hundreds of dunams of Palestinian land, and it operates an olive oil press in the Shilo settlement area.
The farm’s olive oil is labeled "Made in Israel”.
Meshek Achiya was established in 2003 in the illegal Achiya outpost located east of the settlement of Shiloh on hundreds of dunams of agricultural land belonging to the residents of the Palestinian villages of Jalud and Qaryut. Meshek Achiya grows olives on private Palestinian lands and lands that some were declared state lands that settlers and the army have prevented Palestinians from entering to cultivate.
The Achiya outpost was established in the late 1990s and as early as 2009, evacuation orders were issued by the Civil Administration to prevent the illegal cultivation of the land, but the orders have not been implemented.
Between 2014 and 2022, the farm received from the Israeli Government Water Authority an annual allocation of almost 100,000 cubic meters of water, making it one of the largest users of water for settlement agricultural purposes in the entire West Bank.
In January 2017, Palestinians from the Jalud area filed the Israeli court a petition claiming that their lands are being illegally cultivated by settlers who expelled them from there, including 177 dunams of privately owned Palestinian land cultivated by the Meshek Achiya, belonging to the Khatib and Fawzi Ibrahim families.
In May 2021, the High Court ordered the Civil Administration to evacuate the lands illegally cultivated by the settlers' farm. In October 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense reached an agreement with the settlers, according to which they would evacuate the area themselves, and in return, the state would provide them with alternative land to which their olive trees would be relocated.
In September 2023, the government granted the company an area of 159 dunams north of the settlement of Kohav Hashachar in the northern West Bank, in an area that is not part of the settlement's jurisdiction, for field crops on a lease without an agreement. (Government Subcommittee Decision No. 1089 from September 2023, updated February 2024). The factory moved from the outpost to the settlement of Shiloh.
Services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense
In 2020, the Israeli Ministry of Defense purchased olive oil from the company.
Collaboration with Ariel University
In 2018, Ariel University collaborated with Meshek Achiya in a conference held with the Research and Development of Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley association, which took place on a 40-dunam plot belonging to the Khatib family from the village of Qaryut, which was invaded by the settlers' farm in 2007.
Ownership
Eretz Zeit Shemen Muvchar Ltd. and Meshek Achiya Vineyards Ltd. are owned by Shimon Uri Layman (46.66%), Moshe Namdar (46.66%), and Amir Yosef Birenbaum (6.66%).
Subsidiaries
Partners
James Richardson Duty Free
* This section refers to the company's general business partners
Company Response
Settlements
Ahiya | Mateh Binyamin | Shilo