Word: etzion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arish-once the headquarters of Egyptian military forces in the Sinai-scores of bronzed and bearded young Israeli soldiers have staked out a fishing kibbutz that is the first Jewish settlement in the peninsula since Moses led his people out of Egypt. Another colony of Jews has moved into Etzion, in the Hebron hills of Arab Palestine, and a third has begun farming land at Baniyas, below the Golan Heights. In Jerusalem, rabbinical students have set up housekeeping in three abandoned yeshivot (theological seminaries) within the walls of the Old City, and the government plans an extensive resettlement of Jews...
...heavy pressure to permit Jews to move into and settle choice farm areas in the occupied Arab territories. He has been asked to allow 150 separate sites to be so settled, and last week he finally gave in-on one. He allowed a dozen paramilitary farm youths to reoccupy Etzion on the West Bank, sacred to Israelis as the site where four kibbutzim were wiped out in 1948 in a gallant stand that helped save Jerusalem from the Arab Legion. Fearing that the move might be a test for further permanent Israeli settlements in conquered territory, the U.S. State Department...