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Kfar Etzion (Hebrew: כְּפַר עֶצְיוֹן, 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 and re-established in 1967.
Kfar Etzion 1945 1:250,000. Kfar Etzion was a kibbutz founded in 1943, for military and agricultural ends, [6] about 2 km west of the road between Jerusalem and Hebron. By the end of 1947, there were 163 adults and 50 children living there. Much of the town's population was made up of Holocaust survivors. [7]
Graves of the Convoy of 35 in Mount Herzl.. The Convoy of 35 (or the Lamed He, which stands for "thirty five" in Hebrew numerals), was a convoy of Haganah and Palmach fighters sent during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on a mission to reach by foot and resupply the blockaded kibbutzim of Gush Etzion in January 1948, after earlier motorized convoys had been attacked.
On Monday, at Aqabat Jaber, a refugee camp some 30 miles northeast of Kfar Etzion, near Jericho in the West Bank, a 17-year-old boy, Mohammad Balhan, was killed by Israeli army gunfire during a ...
The emotional service was held in the Jewish settlement of Kfar Etzion (AP) Maia (left) and Rina Dee, were killed in a shooting in the West Bank (Family handout) “May we and no-one else in the ...
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni sent a force of 400 armed and trained fighters to the area, and they were joined by armed locals. [1] The plan was to close the roads to prevent Jewish reinforcements from arriving, to conquer Kfar Etzion, to occupy Beit Zakariah to split up Gush Etzion and control the main road, and finally to conquer the remaining three communities.
On 10 December, the first organized attack occurred when ten members of a convoy between Bethlehem and Kfar Etzion were killed. [115] On 14 January, Abd al-Qadir himself commanded and took part in an attack against Kfar Etzion, in which 1,000 Palestinian Arab combatants were involved. The attack was a failure, and 200 of al-Husayni's men died.
Kfar Etzion, West Bank Signature Hanan Porat ( Hebrew : חנן פורת ; 5 December 1943 – 4 October 2011) was an Israeli Orthodox rabbi , educator and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Tehiya , the National Religious Party , Tkuma and the National Union from 1981 to 1984 and then from 1988 to 1999.