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The American naval officer William F. Lynch was the first to identify Tell el-Qadi as the site of the ancient city of Dan in 1849. [11] Three years later, Edward Robinson made the same identification, [12] and this identification is now securely accepted. [2] Tel Dan is the modern Israeli name for the site, based on the original Biblical name. [4]
Dan (Hebrew: דָּן) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the north of the Hula Valley , at the foot of Mount Hermon , it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council . As of 2022 it had a population of 799.
The Tribe of Dan (Hebrew: דָּן, "Judge") was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, according to the Torah.According to the Hebrew Bible, the tribe initially settled in the hill lands bordering Judah and the Philistines but migrated north due to pressure of their enemies, settling at Laish (later known as Dan), near Mount Hermon.
The name Gush Dan means "Dan Bloc", and is so named because the area was the territory of the tribe of Dan in the ancient Kingdom of Israel.According to the biblical narrative, the tribe had originally tried to settle in the central coastal area of Canaan, but enmity with the Philistines, who had already settled there, caused it to be able to camp only in the hill country overlooking the Sorek ...
Although listed in Joshua 15:33 as being a city in the plain, it is actually partly in the hill country, partly in the plain. According to the biblical narrative, Samson began to be agitated by the Spirit of God in the locality of Mahaneh Dan (the camp of Dan), the district "between Zorah and Eshtaol" (Judges 13:25).
The city was reassigned afterwards to the tribe of Dan (Joshua 19:43), but came again into the full possession of the Philistines. It was the last place to which the Philistines carried the Ark of the Covenant before they sent it back to Israel ( 1 Samuel 5:10 and 1 Samuel 6:1–8 ), and the city lords returned here once they had seen that the ...
Dan Academic Center (Hebrew: מרכז אקדמי דן Merkaz Akademi Dan) is an Israeli higher education institute that specializes in the high tech and IT industry fields. It was established in 2011 within a technological industrial area in the city of Petah Tikva in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area.
Torah Umesorah, the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools, was the first national Jewish organization in the United States to pioneer Jewish day schools within the country. It started to develop these in 1944, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] during World War II and at a time when the United States was at war with the Axis Powers and Europe's Jews were ...