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Beit HaArava (Hebrew: בֵּית הָעֲרָבָה, lit. 'House of the Arabah') is an Israeli settlement and kibbutz in the West Bank. Located near the Dead Sea and Jericho at the eponymous Beit HaArava Junction, the intersection of Highway 1 and Highway 90, it falls under the jurisdiction of Megilot Regional Council. In 2022 it had a ...
The name is taken from the Book of Isaiah: "I will open rivers in high hills. [3]" During the British Mandate for Palestine, Shefayim was a base for clandestine immigration. Members of Palmach loading gravel in Shefayim, July 1947. In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, it absorbed refugees from the abandoned kibbutz Beit HaArava near the Dead Sea.
HebrewBooks.org [8] – was founded to preserve old American Hebrew books that are out of print or circulation, but it expanded its mission "to include all Torah Seforim (=books) ever printed". Over 60,000 out-of-print books and journals may be downloaded as PDF images on the main site and on its beta version. [9]
Operation Lot, November 23–25, 1948. Operation Lot (Hebrew: מִבְצָע לוֹט) was an Israeli military operation during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.It was carried out on November 23–25, 1948, in the eastern Negev desert and the Arava.
Gesher HaZiv was founded on the land of the former Palestinian village of al-Zib, close to the village site. [2]The kibbutz was founded in 1948 by two groups: 120 people from the first immigrants' gar'in of the Habonim Labor Zionist youth movement of North America, and half of the former members of kibbutz Beit HaArava, evacuated on 20 May 1948 during the then-ongoing War of Independence.
Yechiel Stizberg (later Shemi), was born to Moshe and Esther Stizberg. When he was two months old the family immigrated to Mandate Palestine and settled in Haifa.At the age of 14 he joined the Mahane Avoda youth movement and began to study art with Paul Henich.
Zvi Dror (alt. Zvika Dror) (born September 1, 1926) [1] is an Israeli historian of Zionism and the creation of the state of Israel.His books were published in Hebrew.. Dror was a member of Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot.
Highway 90 is the longest Israeli road, at about 480 kilometres (300 mi), and stretches from Metula and the northern border with Lebanon, along the western side of the Sea of Galilee, through the Jordan Valley, along the Dead Sea's western bank (making it the world's lowest road), through the Arava Valley, and until Eilat and the southern border with Egypt on the Red Sea.