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    Baka (Arabic: البقعة, lit. "Valley"; Hebrew: בַּקְעָה) is a neighborhood in southern Jerusalem. The official name is Geulim, which is mainly used on road...
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  • Look up baka, Baka, or båkå in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Baka, baká or BAKA may refer to: Baka people (Cameroon and Gabon), an African ethnic group...
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    Yadin Gellman (category Male actors from Jerusalem)
    injuries amid the Be'eri massacre. He was born and raised in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Baka in Israel. His Jewish parents are Religious Zionists from Canada...
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  • position of Chief Rabbi of Lod, which he declined. He then moved to Baka, Jerusalem where he managed to keep a low profile for a while, without his neighbors...
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    Jerusalem is one of the world's oldest cities, with a history spanning over 5,000 years. Its origins trace back to around 3000 BCE, with the first settlement...
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  • Baqa may refer to: Baka, Jerusalem, neighborhood in Jerusalem Baqa al-Gharbiyye, Arab city in Israel Baqa ash-Sharqiyya, Palestinian town in West Bank...
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    than 25 years. Kehilat Kol HaNeshama, a Reform synagogue located in Baka, Jerusalem, is the largest Reform (and largest non-Orthodox) Jewish synagogue...
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    Mevo Modi'im, Beitar Illit and in Bnei Brak. There is a yeshiva in Baka, Jerusalem called Yeshivat Chovat Hatalmidim, where students under the helm of...
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    the first Reform synagogue in Jerusalem, on Shmuel haNagid Street Kehillat Kol HaNeshama, Reform synagogue in the Baka neighbourhood Kehillat Mevakshei...
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    developing neighborhoods of Katamon, Talbiya, and Baka, which were populated by some of Jerusalem's wealthiest Arabs. One of the most famous Christian...
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    This article lists significant public places in the city of Jerusalem. Bethlehem Road (part of Highway 60) Hebron Road-King David Street-Bar-Lev Boulevard...
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    Katamon (redirect from San Simon, Jerusalem)
    lands in Katamon, like in nearby Talbiya and Baka, were owned by the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem. In the late nineteenth century the church had...
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  • List of the public buses in Jerusalem, Israel. The public buses are run by three operators, Egged, Superbus and Extra Public Transportation. One way only...
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    al-Haramayn as-Sarifayn. In 1799, Pierre Jacotin misplaced Atil instead of Baka, on his map made during the French campaign in Egypt and Syria. In 1838 it...
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    Dudu Dahan (category Hapoel Jerusalem F.C. players)
    published in 2022. Dahan was born in Baka, Jerusalem.  At a young age, he joined the youth department of Hapoel Jerusalem F.C., where he played most of his...
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    Psalms [Heb], vol. 2: 73-150, Jerusalem: Mossad Rav Kook, 1990, p. 104: "There are commentators who explain that `emeq haBaka הבכא is a valley where certain...
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    Yehoshua Sharbani (category Rabbis in Jerusalem)
    December 16, 1972). Rabbi Sharbani was Kabbalist and Rabbi in the Baka neighborhood of Jerusalem. Yehoshua Sharbani was born in Bagdad, Iraq, to Yitzchak and...
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    Dor Guez (category Artists from Jerusalem)
    and the director of SeaPort Residency. Dor Guez Munayer was born in Baka, Jerusalem. On his father's side he is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, and...
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    (III) (Rosh Yeshiva – Katamon, Israel) Shimon Sofer (III) (Baka Congregation – Baka, Jerusalem) Akiva Sofer (Erlau Congregation – Bnei Brak) Zalman Sofer...
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  • Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies (category Education in Jerusalem)
    began with 25 students in the summer of 1972 at 10 Rehov Gad in the Baka, Jerusalem. The initial students came from top universities across North America...
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  • Off the Wall Comedy Empire (category Culture of Jerusalem)
    underneath the Hamashbir department store, in downtown Jerusalem, at the Little House in Baka, the former Olala Café. The club has had a number of comedians...
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  • Staniak Zbigniew Zamachowski as Hersch Frydman, Father of Srulik Mirosław Baka as Mateusz Wróbel Grażyna Szapołowska as Ewa Staniak Przemysław Sadowski...
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    Al-Husayni family (category Families from Jerusalem)
    Katamon, Baka and Musrara. Several members of the clan were appointed to important political positions such as Mayor and Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Musa al-Husayni...
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    neighborhoods – German Colony, Baka, Katamon, Pat, Mekor Chaim, and Beit Safafa, – ending outside Teddy Stadium in Malha. The Jaffa–Jerusalem railway was in operation...
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    (Hebrew: חֲטִיבַת עֶצְיוֹנִי, Hativat Etzyoni), also 6th Brigade and Jerusalem Brigade, is an infantry brigade of the Israel Defense Forces. It was founded...
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    London: The Royal Asiatic Society. pp. 262, 71. Ishmaelites built Mecca (Baka, Bakh) Crown, Alan David (2001). Samaritan Scribes and Manuscripts'. Tübingen:...
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    Valley of Rephaim (category Geography of Jerusalem)
    warned by a divine saying about hearing a marching sound in the tops of the baka trees (הבכאים, KJV "mulberry trees", most modern versions "balsam"), David...
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    the Hebrew language and assimilate into the culture. Ulpan Etzion in Jerusalem's Baka neighborhood was established in 1949 by Mordechai Kamerat as a model...
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    Pelech (School) (category Schools in Jerusalem)
    in the Baka neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel. Alice Shalvi, a British-raised professor of English literature at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is credited...
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  • held modern-day Jisr al-Shughur. Saladin captured the two forts, Shughr-Bakas, lying there. Saladin took the main contingent of his army and left Sahyun...
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