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 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.
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. A
Jerusalem District 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. According to the Palestinian
Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ), Israeli settlers "forcefully seized" land from the
Palestinian villages of
Deir Jarir and
Kafr Malik in order to build Mitzpe Kramim. ==References==