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Tirat Carmel
Tirat Carmel (), or Tirat HaCarmel, is a city in the Haifa District in Israel. Throughout the ages, the site of the modern city was controlled by many people, including the Ancient Rome, Romans, the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman, and the United Kingdom, British. The modern city was established on the site of the Palestinians, Palestinian Arab village of al-Tira (Haifa), al-Tira. The town of Tirat Carmel was officially declared a city in 1992. In , it had a population of . History Tirat Carmel is built on the ruins of the town of al-Tira (Haifa), al-Tira which was occupied by Israeli paramilitary organisations during the 1948 Palestine war. Crusaders called it ''St Yohan de Tire''. It was ruled by the Ottomans in late medieval and Renaissance times and was an agricultural area with wheat and goats and other farms.Khalidi, 1992, p.196. While conscription in the late 1800s harmed the town, it recovered, and by 1945 was an agricultural Muslim community with a Christian minority. The town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities In Israel
This article lists the 73 localities in Israel that the Ministry of Interior (Israel), Israeli Ministry of Interior has designated as a City council (Israel), city council. It excludes the 4 List of Israeli settlements with city status in the West Bank, Israeli settlements in the West Bank designated as cities, but Israeli occupation of the West Bank, occupied East Jerusalem is included within Jerusalem. The list is based on the current index of the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Within Local government in Israel, Israel's system of local government, an urban municipality can be granted a city council by the Interior Ministry when its population exceeds 20,000. The term "city" does not generally refer to Local council (Israel), local councils or urban agglomerations, even though a defined city often contains only a small portion of an urban area or metropolitan area's population. List As for 2022, Israel has 18 cities with populations over 100,000, including Jeru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuven Atar
Reuven Atar (; born 3 January 1969) is an Israeli football manager and former player. As a player, he played as a midfielder, most notably with Maccabi Haifa. As a manager, he's mostly known for having five spells with Maccabi Netanya. Early life Atar was born in Tirat Carmel, Israel, to Sephardic Jewish immigrant parents from Iraq. During his adolescence, he played football for the Maccabi Haifa youth club. For many, he is one of the greatest players to ever wear the Haifa colors. Playing career After playing eight seasons for Maccabi Haifa and winning three titles for the club (the Toto Cup, and the Israel State Cup twice – one of which as both a Cup and a championship title at the same year), he joined the local rival team – Hapoel Haifa for four seasons, before being signed off to Beitar Jerusalem. At Beitar he played only one match before being injured, which rendered him unable to play during the rest of the season. In the next season, Atar moved to Hapoel Petah Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurepas, Yvelines
Maurepas () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris from the center. History Most ancient buildings are the ruins of the donjon, built in the 11th century and destroyed in 1425. There is also near St Sauveur's church, dating from the 15th century. In 768, the French king Pepin the Short offered the village of Maurepas (formerly spelled Malrepast) and its wooden keep to the Abbey of Saint-Denis. Facing the Normans' invasions, they left the domain to the Lords of Chevreuse. The castle and village were given to the family of Malrepast, a vassal of the Lords of Chevreuse, which gave its name to the village. In 1432, during the Hundred Years' War, the English conquered the village and destroyed the keep. After the war, the domain of Maurepas returned to the family of Chevreuse, but the castle remained a ruin. Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux from the Phélypeaux family, was Count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twin Towns And Sister Cities
A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties. While there are early examples of international links between municipalities akin to what are known as sister cities or twin towns today dating back to the 9th century, the modern concept was first established and adopted worldwide during World War II. Origins of the modern concept Throughout history, many cities have participated in various cultural exchanges and similar activities that might resemble a sister-city or twin-city relationship, but the first officially documented case of such a relationship was a signed agreement between the leaders of the cities of Toledo, Ohio and Toledo, Spain in 1931. However, the modern concept of town twinning appeared during the Second World War. More specifically, it was inspired by the bombing of Coventry on 14 November 1940, known as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiss (band)
Kiss (commonly styled as KISS) was an American rock music, rock band formed in New York City in 1973 by Paul Stanley (vocals, rhythm guitar), Gene Simmons (vocals, bass guitar), Ace Frehley (lead guitar, vocals) and Peter Criss (drums, vocals). Known for their face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid-1970s with shock rock–style live performances which featured fire-breathing, blood-spitting, smoking guitars, shooting rockets, levitating drum kits and pyrotechnics. The band went through several lineup changes, with Stanley and Simmons remaining the only consistent members. The final lineup consisted of them, Tommy Thayer (lead guitar, vocals) and Eric Singer (drums, vocals). With their makeup and costumes, the band members took on the personas of comic book-style characters: the Starchild (Stanley), the Demon (Simmons), the Spaceman or Space Ace (Frehley), and the Catman (Criss). During the second half of the 1970s, Kiss became one of America's mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz; ; born August 25, 1949) also known by his stage persona "The Demon", is an Israeli-born American musician. He was the bassist and co-lead singer of the hard rock band Kiss (band), Kiss, which he co-founded with Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss in the early 1970s until their retirement in 2023. Simmons was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 as a member of Kiss. Early life and education Simmons was born Chaim Witz on August 25, 1949, at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel, to Jewish refugees from Hungary. His mother, Flóra Kovács (later Florence Klein then Lubowski) (1925–2018) was born in Jánd, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary, and survived internment in Nazi concentration camps from November 1944 to her liberation from the Mauthausen concentration camp, Mauthausen camp in Austria on May 5, 1945. She and her brother, Larry Klein, were the only members of the family to survive the Holocaust. Sim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haim Megrelashvili
Haim Megrelashvili (; born July 4, 1982, in Tirat Carmel) is a retired Israeli football defender. For the bulk of his career he played for Hapoel Haifa. He joined Maccabi Haifa in 2003 from cross-town rival Hapoel Haifa, and within a short time became Israel's rookie of the year. Biography Haim Megrelashvili is of Georgian Jewish ancestry and his surname literally means "son of Megrelia" in Georgian. Career He started his football career at Maccabi Haifa as a schoolboy before concentrating on athletics and gymnastics. His brother, Akiva, continued playing football and joined Hapoel Kiryat Shmona. During his first season at Maccabi Haifa, he started a total of twenty-six matches. His second season at Haifa was far from a success: He started just seven games. Ronny Levy gave Megrelashvili more opportunities in the 2006/07 season and he played an integral part of the squad's progression to the round of sixteen in the UEFA Cup. His European performance as well as domestic perfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Gal
Sharon Gal (; born 13 August 1974) is an Israeli radio and TV journalist and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu during 2015. Biography Gal was born in Tirat Carmel. He hosted an economics program ('Economic Night') on Channel 10 (Israel), Channel 10 until he resigned due to allegations of sexual harassment in 2010. The case was dropped due to lack of evidence. After his resignation, Gal became a radio show host. In summer 2014, Gal interviewed MK Haneen Zoabi on his radio show following the 2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers, kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank. Zoabi said on the show that she did not believe the kidnappers were terrorists. In July 2017, he started presenting the main current affairs program of Radio South and Radio Galey Israel, every morning (Sunday-Thursday) from eight to ten. In 2019 he started hosting the TV show "Sharon and Rani LTD" along with Rani Rahav. Political career In January 2015, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmel Eliash
Carmel Edward Eliash (; born 24 December 1933 – 8 May 1973) was an Israeli politician, head of the Union of Local Authorities in Israel (ULAI), and mayor of Tirat Carmel. Biography Edward (later Carmel) Eliash was born in Baghdad. His father was an Austrian doctor who arrived in Iraq with a League of Nations delegation. In 1949, he joined an underground Zionism, Zionist movement, and made Aliyah Bet, Aliyah to Israel illegally through Iran. He joined Kibbutz Ramat David and became a member of Mapam. In 1950, he served as the representative of the Kibbutz Movement at the "Sha'ar Ha-'aliyah" ("The Gate of Aliyah") immigration camp. Afterwards he served as the representative in Atlit (modern town), Atlit. In 1952, he was drafted into the Israeli Defense Forces and stationed at a base close to Tirat Carmel, then a major absorption center for immigrants from Iraq, Morocco and Romania. Eliash met his future wife Badria in Tirat Carmel and decided to settle there permanently. U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafi Cohen (footballer, Born 1974)
Rafi Cohen (; born 21 August 1974) is an Israeli former footballer. Honours *Israeli Premier League (2): **2000–01, 2001–02 *Toto Cup (1): **2002–03 *Israel State Cup The Israel State Cup (, ''Gvia HaMedina''), is a knockout cup competition in Israeli football, run by the Israel Football Association (IFA). The State Cup was first held in 1928 as the People's Cup. Because it involves clubs of all standards ... (1): **2004 * Liga Alef - Northern Division (1): **2007–08 References External linksProfileat One * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cohen, Rafi 1974 births Living people Jewish Israeli sportspeople Israeli men's footballers Hapoel Karmiel F.C. players Hapoel Rishon LeZion F.C. players Maccabi Haifa F.C. players Bnei Sakhnin F.C. players Hapoel Acre F.C. players Sektzia Ness Ziona F.C. players Hapoel Bnei Tamra F.C. players Hapoel Umm al-Fahm F.C. players Ahva Arraba F.C. players Hapoel Asi Gilboa F.C. players Liga Leumit players Israeli Premier League player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rostam Bastuni
Rostam Bastuni (, ; 15 March 1923 – 26 April 1994) was an Israeli politician and journalist, and the first Israeli Arab to represent a Zionist party in the Knesset. Biography Bastuni was born in Haifa to a family originally from al-Tira. He attended the Technion, graduating with a degree in architecture, going on to become a teacher. Bastuni joined the Arab branch of Mapam in 1951. He rose through the party ranks, and although not elected, he served as the party's secretary in the first Knesset. He also edited the Arabic edition of Mapam's weekly magazine, ''Al-Fajar''. For the 1951 elections he was placed high enough on their list to win a place in the Knesset, thus becoming the first Israeli Arab to represent a Zionist party (three Arab MKs had served in the first Knesset, but none of them for Zionist parties - one had been a member of the communist Maki and the other two were members of an Arab party, the Democratic List of Nazareth). During his first Knesset term, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
