Ma'on (מעון) is a
moshav and
Israeli settlement in the
Judean Hills of the
West Bank, located south of
Hebron and north of
Beersheba. It is part of the
Har Hebron Regional Council. The settlement was first established in 1981 as a paramilitary
Nahal outpost. The first civilian population, members of the
Orthodox Zionist youth movement Bnei Akiva settled there in 1982. The settlement is named for the
biblical town of the same name, which was situated nearby at the site of modern
Ma'in.
Ma'on and nearby village Carmel jointly operate a dairy with about four hundred cows. The average daily production per head is about 38 litres of milk.
Adjacent to Ma'on is the small fledging Jewish settlement of Havat Ma'on (Ma'on Farm). Located in a nearby forest, it is comprised of about a dozen families and a handful of teenagers.