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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Palestinian city in Palestine Bethlehem Palestinian city Arabic transcription(s) • Arabic بيت لحم • Latin Beit Laḥm (official) Beit Lehem or Bayt Laḥm (unofficial) Hebrew transcription(s) • Hebrew בֵּית לֶחֶם Skyline of Bethlehem Church of the Nativity Graffiti on ...
OpEd: I, for one, have come to deplore what the State of Israel is doing to the Palestinian people and with our money, at the behest of our government The Bethlehem of our Christmas story is very ...
Israel, [a] officially the State of Israel, [b] is a country in West Asia.It is situated in the Southern Levant of the Middle East; and shares borders with Lebanon and Syria to the north, the West Bank and Jordan to the east, the Gaza Strip and Egypt to the southwest, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. [21]
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Part of a series on the History of Israel Early history Prehistoric Levant Kebaran Mushabian Natufian Harifian Yarmukian Lodian Nizzanim Ghassulian Canaan Retjenu Habiru Shasu Late Bronze Age collapse Ancient Israel and Judah Iron Age I Israelites, Philistines 12th–10th centuries BCE United ...
Father Issa Thaljieh, a 40-year-old Greek Orthodox parish priest at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, kneels at the spot where tradition says Jesus was born.
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On 27 June 1967, Israel expanded the municipal boundaries of West Jerusalem so as to include approximately 70 km 2 (27.0 sq mi) of West Bank territory today referred to as East Jerusalem, which included Jordanian East Jerusalem (6 km 2 (1,500 acres)) and 28 villages and areas of the Bethlehem and Beit Jala municipalities 64 km 2 (25 sq mi).
But the protests continued, reaching fever pitch in 1933, as more Jewish immigrants arrived to make a home for themselves, the influx accelerating from 4,000 in 1931 to 62,000 in 1935.