Lifta (Arabic: لفتا; Hebrew: ליפתא) was a Palestinian village on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The village's Palestinian Arab inhabitants were expelled...
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He was succeeded by Yasser Arafat. Hammuda was born in the village of Lifta in 1908. He took part of an attempt to secure a role for an independent...
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cubic meters of water a year (compared to 125,000 cubic meters for the Lifta spring in West Jerusalem. The spring is under the control of the Israeli...
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Ben-Hur filming site near Lifta, intended to represent Jerusalem...
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United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine Jerusalem Corpus Separatum Lifta Shu'fat JERUSALEM at-Tur al-Eizariya Abu Dis Silwan Sur Baher Umm Tuba Ramat...
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was established in a joint venture with the neighboring Arab village of Lifta. As Deir Yassin prospered, houses radiated from the Hara uphill and eastward...
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Lifta, a depopulated Arab village neither destroyed nor repopulated since 1948, as one that embodies both past and present narratives, noting: "Lifta...
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western Jerusalem neighbourhoods as Qatamon, Talbiya, Baq'a, 'Ayn Karim, Lifta and Malha either fled or were forced out, many of them seeking refuge in...
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p. 132 n. 12, "The massacre at Deir Yassin was frequently cited in the Lifta accounts as having been a landmark, a focal point in the events of the Nakba...
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B'nei Yehuda, a messianic cult of former gangsters turned mystics based in Lifta, trying to infiltrate the area to blow it up. On 15 January 1988, during...
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Kefar Lifta (كفر لفتا), and situated on the left-hand side of the road as one enters Jerusalem. It is now an abandoned Arab village. The word Lifta is merely...
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unit. See also Jewish Quarter. The comparatively populous Arab village of Lifta (today within the bounds of Jerusalem) was captured by Israeli troops in...
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Shearim and the Bukharim quarter, on the outskirts of the village lands of Lifta, following a quarrel which began when he and his friends tried to retrieve...
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deported without serving jail time. Odeh has said that she was born in Lifta in 1948, but that her family left for Ramallah when she was a month old...
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Ben-Hur filming site near Lifta, intended to be Jerusalem...
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families residing in Beit Hanina (Dar Abu-Zuheir) and the now-depopulated Lifta (Abu Aaukal), situated near Jerusalem, as well as families in Beit Ummar...
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construction of the church: the interior utilizes a stone from the quarries at Lifta, north-west of Jerusalem; and the exterior, a rose colored stone from Bethlehem...
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communities and to strengthen the Jewish hold on these sites. Sheikh Badr and Lifta were the first Arab villages to undergo mass evacuation. To create a "general...
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Irgun carried out a number of operations. An Arab bus making its way from Lifta was attacked in Jerusalem. In two other locations in Jerusalem, Arabs were...
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Structures were roofed with timber wooden beams covered by reeds and rushes. In Lifta, until the end of the 19th century, traditional housing construction consisted...
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63917°E / 31.57056; 34.63917 Bror Hayil, Tlamim, Zohar, Sde David, Heletz Lifta Jerusalem 1 January 1948 2,958 8,743 Atrocity 3 or more Jewish families...
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Ramallah: great variety of very distinguishable finely executed patterns. Lifta (near Jerusalem), and Bayt Dajan (near Jaffa) were known as being among...
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lifted high (romem)". Romema was founded on a hill outside the village of Lifta in 1921. The initiator of the project was attorney Yom-Tov Hamon, an expert...
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Brunner in Lifta during production...
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marketplace in Jerusalem. 1939, June 30 2 Arabs were shot and killed in Lifta. 1939, July 3 1 Arab was killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Haifa. 1939...
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as in the King James Version. Conder and Kitchener identified Eleph with Lifta. Elon-beth-hanan (sometimes written Elonbethhanan, Elonbeth-hanan, Elon...
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Joshua 18:26 Motza Jerusalem District Israel Nephtoah נֶפְתּוֹחַ Joshua 15:9 Lifta Jerusalem District Israel Netophah נְטֹפָה Ezra 2:22 Umm Tuba East Jerusalem...
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States to attend college. His mother is originally from the village of Lifta, now part of Israel, but she became a refugee in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion...
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and co-producer Documentary 2016 Sacred Editor Documentary The Ruins of Lifta Editor Documentary 2015 Colliding Dreams Editor Documentary 2012 Birders:...
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She publishes articles in various publications. Rima's father was from Lifta, a village on the western outskirts of Jerusalem. She and her family had...
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