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Raʿanana
Ra'anana () is an affluent city in the southern Sharon Plain of the Central District of Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr .... It was founded in 1922 as an American-Jewish settlement, 1 km south of the village of Tabsur, where an Battle of Tabsor, important World War I battle had taken place four years previously. Bordered by Kfar Saba and Hod HaSharon on the east and Herzliya on the southwest, it had a population of in . While the majority of its residents are Israeli-born Jews, a large part of the population consists of Jewish immigrants from the Americas, Europe and South Africa. Ra'anana's industrial park is home to global and local start-up companies. It was designated a "Green City" by the World Health Organization in 2005. History Before the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tabsur
Tabsur (), also Khirbat 'Azzun (), was a Palestinian village located 19 kilometres southwest of Tulkarm. In 1931, the village had 218 houses and an elementary school for boys. Its Palestinian population was expelled during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. History The site of Tabsur contained archaeological remains, including the foundations of a building, a well, fragments of mosaic pavement, and tombs.Khalidi, 1992, p. 562 .In the 1860s, the Ottoman authorities granted 'Azzun an agricultural plot of land in the former confines of the Forest of Arsur (Ar. Al-Ghaba) in the coastal plain, west of the village. Residents of 'Azzun then repopulated the archaeological site of Tabsur.Khalidi, 1992, p. 561 Describing this settlement according to local tradition, Ayalon and Marom noted, On a summer day sometime in the late 1860s, a group of shabab (youth) from the Jabal Nablus (Samaria) highland left their village of ʿAzzun and descended to the sparsely populated and wooded coastal plain. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
