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Shavit 3rd stage. The Jericho II (YA-3) is a solid fuel, two-stage intermediate-range ballistic missile system and a follow on from the Jericho I project. As many as 90 Jericho 2 missiles are currently based in caves near Zekharia (Sdot Micha Airbase), southeast of Tel Aviv.
A senior administration official said: "That is the price we pay. Our first responsibility is the safety of American and British monitors". State Department spokesman J. Adam Ereli denied any coordination with Israel and said: "Such accusations are baseless and ignore the facts, quite frankly". [25]
Jericho's name in Modern Hebrew, Yeriẖo, is generally thought to derive from the Canaanite word rēḥ ' fragrant ', but other theories hold that it originates in the Canaanite word Yaraḥ ' moon ' or the name of the lunar deity Yarikh, for whom the city was an early centre of worship.
According to ARIJ, in 1978 Israel confiscated 618 dunams of land from the Palestinian site of Nabi Musa in order to construct Vered Yeriho. [3]The community was founded in 1979 as a result of the dissociation of the secular nucleus from the religious nucleus in Mitzpe Yeriho, a nearby settlement to the west of Vered Yeriho.
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An Israel Border Police checkpoint at Jericho's southern entrance, 2005 Map of West Bank checkpoints in 2020. An Israeli checkpoint (Hebrew: מחסום, romanized: makhsóm; Arabic: حاجز, romanized: ḥājiz) is a barrier erected by the Israeli Security Forces, primarily today part of the system of West Bank closures in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
A U.N. committee voted Sunday to list prehistoric ruins near the ancient West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine, a decision that angered Israel, which controls the ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Place in Judea and Samaria Area Mitzpe Yeriho מִצְפֵּה יְרִחוֹ Etymology: Jericho lookout Mitzpe Yeriho Coordinates: 31°48′58″N 35°23′39″E / 31.81611°N 35.39417°E / 31.81611; 35.39417 District Judea and Samaria Area Council Mateh Binyamin Region West Bank ...