Tower and Stockade (Hebrew: חוֹמָה וּמִגְדָּל, romanized: Ḥoma u'migdal, lit. 'wall and tower') was a settlement method used by Zionist settlers in Mandatory...
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A stockade is an enclosure of palisades and tall walls, made of logs placed side by side vertically, with the tops sharpened as a defensive wall. Stockade...
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Ayalon Institute (category Military and war museums in Israel)
watch tower, 1 January 1939. Photo: Rudi Weissenstein. Ayalon 1943 Ayalon 1946 In January 1939, during the Arab revolt, a "Tower and Stockade"-type position...
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ʾisrāʾīlī), is the currency of Israel and is also used as a legal tender in the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The new shekel is...
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Laurel Caverns (section History and notable features)
Boswell News, November 5, 1964, p. 2 (subscription required). "New Tower and Stockade at Caverns." Uniontown, Pennsylvania: Evening Standard, October 19...
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Conder and HH Kitchener it was listed as the ruin, Khurbet Hanuta. Kibbutz Hanita was established on 21 March 1938, as part of the Tower and stockade operation...
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Kibbutz (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
the Jewish state. In 1946, on the day after Yom Kippur, eleven new "Tower and Stockade" kibbutzim were hurriedly established in the northern part of the...
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Hebrew. Kibbutz Negba was founded on 12 July 1939 as part of the tower and stockade enterprise. The first settlers were members of Hashomer Hatzair from...
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Israel. Founded on 10 December 1936 as Tel Amal, the first of the tower and stockade settlements, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs...
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inhabitants, consisting of 137 Jews, 13 Muslims and 3 Christians. In 1946 the Betar Tower and Stockade settlement (which was relocated multiple times)...
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Kfar Menahem founded Kfar Warburg. Kfar Menahem was established as a Tower and Stockade colony on December 6, 1939 on a 3,650 dunam tract which had been purchased...
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Kibbutz Tel Amal, is credited with creating and then managing the construction of 57 homa u'migal (tower and stockade settlements) during the 1936–39 Arab revolt...
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2022 it had a population of 493. Beit Yosef was founded in 1937 as a tower and stockade settlement, a series of settlements erected during the 1936–1939 Arab...
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13 April – The founding of the moshav Shavei Tzion as part of the tower and stockade settlement scheme. 26 June – The founding of the kibbutz Alonim 29...
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Palestine). The original was built as a "Tower and Stockade" settlement, was closely aligned with the Mapai party, and was the home of Yigal Allon, commander...
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Eureka Rebellion (redirect from Eureka stockade)
culminated in the Battle of the Eureka Stockade, which took place on 3 December 1854 at Ballarat between the rebels and the colonial forces of Australia. The...
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kibbutz was moved to the coast in the area of Acre as a "tower and stockade" settlement, and was renamed Mishmar HaYam (Hebrew: משמר הים, lit. Sea Guard)...
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May 1939 as a Tower and Stockade settlement, the first such settlement in the northern Hula Valley. Dafna, Beit Hillel, She'ar Yashuv and Dan were known...
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on 15 August 1937 as part of the tower and stockade movement. It was named Sha'ar HaNegev, "Gate of the Negev", and then Kfar Szold, "Szold Village" (after...
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established on 29 November 1938 as the 29th tower and stockade settlement. In 1940 the kibbutz moved to its present site and was renamed Kfar Masaryk after Tomáš...
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Battles of Negba (category Battles and operations of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War)
forces up to Operation Yoav. Kibbutz Negba was founded in 1939 as a tower and stockade settlement, the first lasting modern Jewish settlement in the Negev...
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1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine (category Riots and civil disorder in Mandatory Palestine)
Since the Battle of Tel Hai in 1920, Jews and Arabs had been involved in a cycle of attacks and counter-attacks, and the immediate spark for the uprising was...
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Council. It was Israel's first moshav shitufi, and can also be considered the first Tower and Stockade settlement. In 2022 it had a population of 600...
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began August 2002. The tower was officially opened on 11 October 2006. The building's design is themed around the Eureka Stockade. It contains 556 apartments...
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to Tegart forts. Shlomo Gur Tower and stockade Boma (enclosure) Connolly, Kevin. "Charles Tegart and the forts that tower over Israel". Jerusalem: BBC...
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tower and stockade enterprise. The first residents were members of the Noar Haoved youth movement immigrants from Germany, Bohemia and Austria, and former...
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was established in a manner similar to the tower and stockade settlement campaign of the late 1930s, and was the first religious kibbutz to be founded...
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founded in 1939 by Jewish farmers from Transylvania as part of the Tower and Stockade campaign. It is affiliated with the Hashomer Hatzair movement. In...
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mixed group of immigrants from Europe and native Sabras (Palestine-born Jews), for workers in the tower and stockade settlements in the Upper Galilee. It...
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Arab revolt in Palestine as a "tower and stockade" settlement, a common debut for many kibbutzim during that era, and quickly established itself as a...
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