Word: beersheba
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nights before the anniversary, explosions rocked Palestine from Dan to Beersheba. Armed bands, operating under a master plan of sabotage, crippled the country's railroads with dynamitings at 153 points. In Haifa harbor, where a British cruiser and four destroyers lay at anchor, police launches used for halting illegal immigrants were boarded and scuttled. At dawn six men were dead, eight wounded. Two of the dead were Jews. British authorities clamped a curfew on the whole coastal area...
Hereafter, said Mr. MacDonald, Jews will be prohibited from buying more land in all the hill country and in the southern districts of Beersheba and Gaza. This is more than half the country. Furthermore, Jews will be allowed land purchases only "by special permission" in other large restricted areas around Haifa, Lake Tiberias and Ramleh. Jews can still buy land in municipal areas, in the Haifa industrial zone and in a 50-mile stretch of the Maritime Plain between Tantura and Ramleh, practically all owned by them already...
...moment when guards of the Christian Lydda Airport had relaxed their patrol and were resting in a watchman's hut, set fires which caused airport buildings and equipment to burn last week for a loss of $100,000. Next, the police station at Daharieh, between Hebron and Beersheba, was overwhelmed by Arabs who made off with the Christian policemen's arms, shouting: "Tell your English bosses to go drink whiskey and play football! They should not think they can fight us. We will drive them out of Palestine...
Starved for troops by the High Command, whose eyes were glued to the Western Front, Allenby launched a campaign up the coast of Palestine, taking Beersheba, Gaza, Bethlehem and Jaffa, splitting the Turkish armies. On Dec. 9, 1917, without firing a shell into the Holy City, he walked into Jerusalem, in deference to the Arab legend that Jerusalem's conqueror would enter on foot. Thenceforth the Arabs respectfully called him "El Nebi" ("The Man on Foot...
...Dead Sea. But travel is ordinarily safe in Palestine. The members of the school last year made many short trips, not requiring tents, and three of greater length with tents. These were to the southern end of the Dead Sea in company with the Dominican School of Jerusalem; to Beersheba and the country of the Philistines; across the Jordan and to Banias, one of the sources of that river, thence to Sidon and down the coast to Haifa, thence over Mt. Carmel to Nablus where the celebration of the Samaritan Passover was witnessed...