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1Gush Katif — ( he. גוש קטיף, en. Harvest Bloc ) was a bloc of 17 Israeli settlements in the southern Gaza strip. In August 2005, the 8,000 residents of Gush Katif were evacuated from the area and their homes demolished as part of Israel s unilateral… …
2Gush Etzion — ()Gush Etzion website [http://www.gush etzion.org.il/history.asp] ] . The location was purchased because it was roughly equidistant from Bethlehem and Hebron, and thus fell between the zones of influence of the local Arab clans. Two years later,… …
3Gush Emunim — ( he. גוש אמונים, Block [of the] faithful ) was an Israeli political movement. The movement sprang out of the conquests of the Six Day War in 1967, though it was not formally established as an organization until 1974, in the wake of the Yom… …
4diamond ring — n. (Astronomy) large gush of light that shows up a few seconds before and after totality during a solar eclipse (caused by the last bit of sunlight that shines through valleys on the edge of the moon); ring bearing a diamond or a number of… …
5Highway 60 (Israel) — Highway 60 (Hebrew: כביש 60, Kvish Shishim ) is a north south intercity road in Israel and the West Bank that stretches from Beersheba to Nazareth.[citation needed] Contents …
6HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …
7Israel's unilateral disengagement plan — Part of a series on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and Arab–Israeli conflict Israeli–Palestinian peace process …
8ZEALOTS AND SICARII — Introduction This article deals not only with the group of fighters for the freedom of Israel known from josephus as the Zealots, but includes in its survey other groups with similar aims, particularly the Sicarii. Judea differed from the other… …
9International reactions to the 2006 Lebanon War — Reactions by the UN and national representativesflag|United NationsThe top UN official in Lebanon said Hezbollah’s action escalates the already tense situation along the Blue Line and is an act of very dangerous proportions, in a statement. Kofi… …
10Convoy of 35 — The Convoy of 35 graves The Convoy of 35 (or the Lamed He which means thirty five in Hebrew numerals) refers to 35 soldiers of the Haganah who were killed while attempting to resupply and or reinforce the Gush Etzion kibbutzim by foot on January… …
