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One of the motivating factors behind members of the Yishuv to apply Hebrew names to old Arabic names, despite attempts to the contrary by the RGS Committee for Names, [25] was the belief by historical geographers, both Jewish and non-Jewish, that many Arabic place-names were mere "corruptions" of older Hebrew names [30] (e.g. Khirbet Shifat ...
With the establishment of Israel, in parts of Palestine, many place names have since been Hebraized or are referred to by their revived Biblical names. [6] In some cases, even sites with only Arabic names and no pre-existing ancient Hebrew names or associations have been given new Hebrew names. [8]
During the 1947–1949 Palestine war, or the Nakba, around 400 Palestinian Arab towns and villages were forcibly depopulated, with a majority being destroyed and left uninhabitable. [1] [2] Today these locations are all in Israel; many of the locations were repopulated by Jewish immigrants, with their place names replaced with Hebrew place names.
Israel has 16 cities with populations over 100,000, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv-Yafo. [2] In all, there are 77 Israeli localities granted "municipalities" (or "city") status by the Ministry of the Interior, including four Israeli settlements in the West Bank. [3]
Tel Aviv is the Hebrew title of Theodor Herzl’s 1902 novel Altneuland ("Old New Land"), as translated from German by Nahum Sokolow.Sokolow had adopted the name of a Mesopotamian site near the city of Babylon mentioned in Ezekiel: "Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Abib [Tel Aviv], that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Weeks after attending a pro-Palestinian demonstration, Egyptian-American student Layla Sayed received a text message from a friend drawing her attention to a website ...
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Name Alternative Name(s) Pa EP Ne Ch EB IB MB LB IA Pe He Ro By EM Cr Ma Ot Features and notes Tel Abel Beth Maachah: Tell Abil el-Qameḥ [1] Tell Abu Hawam [2] Abu Zurayq: Tel Zariq Achziv: Az-Zeeb, al-Zib, al-Zaib [3] Tel Acre: Tell el-Fukhar [4] World Heritage Site, 'Old City of Acre' [5] Adullam