Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Arab invading armies failed to take control over the rest of Israel, including West Jerusalem. The city was then divided along the 1949 Armistice Line. East Jerusalem was annexed to Jordan in 1950. The city remained divided until the Six-Day War in 1967. [8] As part of the Jordanian campaign, on June 5, 1967, the Jordanian Army began ...
Palestinian workers in Israel. Palestinian workers in Israel (Hebrew: עובדים פלסטינים) are Palestinian citizens of the Palestinian Authority who are employed by Israeli citizens in the State of Israel and Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Most of them work as unskilled laborers in sectors such as agriculture and construction.
Bethlehem (/ ˈbɛθlɪhɛm /; Arabic: بيت لحم, Bayt Laḥm, pronunciation ⓘ; Hebrew: בֵּית לֶחֶםBēṯ Leḥem) is a city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the State of Palestine, located about ten kilometres (six miles) south of Jerusalem. It is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate, and as of 2017 had a population of ...
The Embassy of the United States of America in Jerusalem is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America to the State of Israel. It is located in Talpiot, a neighborhood in southeastern Jerusalem. In mid-October 2018, Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State under the Trump administration, declared that the new embassy would be merging ...
In June 1967, the West Bank and East Jerusalem were captured by Israel as a result of the Six-Day War. With the exception of East Jerusalem and the former Israeli–Jordanian no man's land, the West Bank was not annexed by Israel. It remained under Israeli military control until 1982.
The occupied Palestinian territories, also referred to as the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the Palestinian territories, consist of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip —two regions of the former British Mandate for Palestine that have been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967.
Israel's universities are listed below, followed by their English acronym, establishment date, location, latest data about the number of students and the institute's academic rank of the top world universities, according to WebOMetrics [2] (top 3000), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) [3] (top 500) and The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) [4] (top 200), Academic Ranking of World ...
Bank Est. Remarks Arab Israel Bank: 1961: Arab Israel Bank was wholly owned by Bank Leumi and was merged into Leumi in 2016 Mercantile Discount Bank: 1971: Mercantile Discount Bank is a subsidiary of Israel Discount Bank: Bank of Jerusalem: 1963: Bank Otsar Ha-Hayal: 1946: Bank Otsar Ha-Hayal is a brand of First International Bank: Union Bank ...