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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 ...
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 ...
The use of the name "Palestine" became common in Early Modern English, [27] and was used in English and Arabic during the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem. The term is recorded widely in print as a self-identification by Palestinians from the start of the 20th century onwards, [ 28 ] coinciding with the period when the printing press first came into ...
Aerial view of old Jaffa Aerial view of old Jaffa and port with Tel Aviv behind. Jaffa (Hebrew: יָפוֹ, romanized: Yāfō, pronounced ⓘ; Arabic: يَافَا, romanized: Yāfā, pronounced), also called Japho, Joppa or Joppe in English, is an ancient Levantine port city which is part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, located in its southern part.
Jenin (/ ʒ ɪ ˈ n iː n / zhin-EEN; Arabic: جنين, romanized: Jinīn, locally pronounced [ʒɪˈniːn] ⓘ) is a city in the State of Palestine in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The city serves as the administrative center of the Jenin Governorate of Palestine and is a major center for the surrounding towns. [ 2 ]
On 21 May 1910, the name Tel Aviv was adopted. Eventually, Tel Aviv would become known as "the first [modern] Hebrew city" and a central economic and cultural hub of Israel. Additionally, the first Hebrew edition of the Herzl biography that was written after 1948, and published by Alex Bein in 1960, reflected historical viewpoint changes based ...
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In Arabic, this name occurs in the form Ūrsālim (أْوْرْسَـالِـم) which is the Arabic name promoted by the Israeli government. [ 14 ] The name "Shalem", whether as a town or a deity, is derived from the same root Š-L-M as the word " shalom ", meaning peace, [ 15 ] [ 16 ] so that the common interpretation of the name is now "The ...