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...little kids of the poem were the only children of Danny and Semadar Haran, for whom Hadara, now 15, used to babysit. Einat, 5, and Yael, 2, were both killed in April 1979, when terrorists entered Nahariya from the sea in a motor-powered dinghy and attacked a four-story apartment house. In one apartment they found Einat and her father, whom they took back to the beach. Danny they shot to death, and when Israeli forces approached, one of the terrorists picked up Einat by the feet and cracked open her head on a rock...
Pettinato was more certain. He proposed that Abraham was a native of northern Syria. An intriguing Ebla text shows a town named Ur near Haran, the biblical town in Syria from which Abraham moved into the promised land. Genesis, however, says that Abraham grew up in "Ur of the Chaldees," understood by both the biblical and Islamic traditions to be the famous Ur in lower Mesopotamia. Ebla aside, the Israelites were instructed in Deuteronomy 26: 5 to recite that Abraham was "a wandering Aramaean." In other words, the Bible labeled him a Syrian...
Worcester: goal, Numez; r.b., Stark; l.b., Sharp, (Capt); r.h., Abererombie; c.h., Francis; l.h., Haran; o.r., Terrance; i.v., Banett c.f., Arias; i.l., Baranakes; o.l., Alias...
Reverend Charles Reynolds Brown, D.D., LL.D., dean of the Divialty School and poster of the University Church at Yale University. New Haran, Connecticut will conduct the Sunday Chapel Service in Appleton Chapel tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock...