Gush Etzion — ()Gush Etzion website [http://www.gush etzion.org.il/history.asp] ] . The location was purchased because it was roughly equidistant from Bethlehem and Hebron, and thus fell between the zones of influence of the local Arab clans. Two years later,… … Wikipedia
Gush Etzion — Gusch Etzion (hebr. גוש עציון) ist eine Gruppe israelischer Siedlungen im Westjordanland. Sie wurde zwischen 1943 und 1947 auf halber Strecke zwischen Jerusalem und Hebron gegründet. Frühere Versuche, in der Gegend Gemeinden zu errichten,… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Gush Etzion Regional Council — The Gush Etzion Regional Council ( he. מועצה אזורית גוש עציון) is a regional council in the northern Judean hills, or rather, the northern part of the southern area of the West Bank, administering the settlements in the Gush Etzion region, as… … Wikipedia
Gush Etzion Convoy — The convoy of ten, or Gush Etzion Convoy, was one of many convoys sent by the Haganah to the four blockaded kibbutzim of Gush Etzion ( The Etzion Bloc ), south of Jerusalem in the 1948 Israeli War of Independence. The initial convoys to the bloc… … Wikipedia
Gush Etzion — group of communities near Jerusalem (in the West Bank) … English contemporary dictionary
Tekoa, Gush Etzion — Tekoa ( he. תקוע) is an Israeli Jewish communal settlement in the northern Judean hills in the West Bank. Founded in 1977, the settlement is located on the top of a hill among ruins of the site of Biblical Tekoa, 5 miles south of Bethlehem, and… … Wikipedia
Elazar, Gush Etzion — Elazar ( he. אֶלְעָזָר) is an Israeli settlement in the Gush Etzion region of the West Bank, 18 kilometers south of Jerusalem. A religious communal settlement, it has around 350 families living in it.The settlement was established in 1975 as a… … Wikipedia
Kedar, Gush Etzion — Kedar ( he. קדר) is a religiously observant, rural Communal settlement and Israeli settlement in the Gush Etzion Regional Council, south of Ma ale Adumim, Israel. The settlement was established in 1985 by families linked to the Betar movement.The … Wikipedia
Etzion — ( he. עציון, lit. of the tree ), also spelled Ezion, can refer to several places and topics relating to modern and ancient Israel:*Ezion Geber, a biblical Idumaean and Israelite port on the Red Sea *Kfar Etzion, a kibbutz established in the early … Wikipedia
Etzion Bloc — (Gush Etzion) A group of Jewish settlements in the hills of Judea between Jerusalem and Hebron taken by Jordan during the War of Independence (1948 49). The bloc included Kfar Etzion (the oldest of the settlements, founded in 1943), Massuot… … Historical Dictionary of Israel
