Etzion Brigade

Etzion (, lit. ''of the tree''), also spelled Ezion, can refer to places and topics relating to modern, ancient Israel and the West Bank: * Ezion-Geber, a biblical Idumaean and Israelite port on the Red Sea *

Kfar Etzion Kfar Etzion (, ''lit.'' Etzion Village) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, organized as a religious kibbutz located in the Judean Hills between Jerusalem and Hebron in the southern West Bank, established in 1927, depopulated in 1948 an ...

, a kibbutz established in the early 20th century south of Jerusalem *

Gush Etzion Gush Etzion (, ' Etzion Bloc) is a cluster of Israeli settlements located in the Judaean Mountains, directly south of Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the West Bank. The core group includes four Jewish agricultural villages that were founded in 1943� ...

, an eponymous bloc surrounding the kibbutz *

Gush Etzion Regional Council The Gush Etzion Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Gush Etzion'') is a Regional council (Israel), regional council in the northern Judean Hills, the northern part of the southern area of the West Bank, administering the Israeli settlements, se ...

, a modern local government in that area *

Kfar Etzion massacre The Kfar Etzion massacre refers to a massacre of Jews that took place after a two-day battle in which Jewish Kibbutz residents and Haganah militia defended Kfar Etzion from a combined force of the Arab Legion and local Arab men on May 13, 1948 ...

, a Jordanian massacre of kibbutz members * Nir Etzion, a moshav established by survivors of the massacre * Har Etzion, a yeshiva founded during the bloc's reestablishment * Etzion Airbase, a former Israeli AFB in the Sinai Peninsula near the Red Sea (currently Taba International Airport) * Etzion, the codename for the Israeli Air Force base in

Žatec Žatec (; ) is a town in Louny District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 19,000 inhabitants. It lies on the Ohře River. Žatec is famous for an over-700-year-long tradition of growing Saaz hops, Saaz noble hops u ...

, Czechoslovakia, in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War *

Yehuda Etzion Yehuda Etzion (; born 1951) is an Israeli religious right-wing activist and the founder of Hai Vekayam, a group dedicated to allowing Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount. He was a member of the Jewish Underground and participated in a plot to blow ...

, an Israeli activist and member of the

Jewish Underground The Jewish Underground ( ''HaMakhteret HaYehudit''), or in abbreviated form, simply Makhteret,David S. New''Holy War: The Rise of Militant Christian, Jewish and Islamic Fundamentalism,'' McFarland, 2001, p. 143. was a radical right-wing fundamenta ...

* Yeshiva Etzion, a yeshiva located in Queens, NY, established in 2003 by Rabbi Avraham Gaon *

Yeshivat Or Etzion Yeshivat Or Etzion is a Hesder Yeshiva, religious high school, and religious army preparation high school. It is located in Merkaz Shapira, Israel. It was founded in 1977. Its Rosh Yeshiva was Rabbi Haim Drukman. The "Yeshiva Gavoha" roll is ap ...

, a Hesder Yeshiva, religious high school, and religious army preparation high school *

Gush Etzion Convoy The Convoy of Ten was a convoy of four vehicles intended to deliver supplies from Jerusalem to the settlements of Gush Etzion on the 28 Kislev 5708 (December 11, 1947). At the 15th kilometer from Jerusalem, the convoy was attacked by an ambush set ...

, one of many convoys sent by the Haganah to the four blockaded kibbutz im of Gush Etzion *

Gush Etzion Junction Gush Etzion Junction ("Tzomet HaGush") also known as Gush Junction is a 120-dunam (0.12 km2; 0.046 sq mi) business, commercial and tourism center in the southern West Bank, which serves as the entry point to the Gush Etzion bloc of sett ...

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