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According to Moshe Sharon, following Yechezkel Kutscher, the name of the city was Beit She'arayim or Kfar She'arayim (the House/Village of Two Gates). [10] The ancient Yemenite Jewish pronunciation of the name is also "Bet She'arayim", which is more closely related to the Ancient Greek rendition of the name, i.e. Βησάρα, "Besara".
Beit She'arim (Hebrew: בית שערים; Imperial Aramaic: בית שריי / Bet Sharei), [1] also Besara (Greek: Βήσαρα), [2] [3] was a Jewish village located in the southwestern hills of the Lower Galilee, [3] during the Roman period, from the 1st century BCE to the 3rd century CE.
A dead drop or dead letter box is a method of espionage tradecraft used to pass items or information between two individuals (e.g., a case officer and an agent, or two agents) via a secret location. By avoiding direct meetings, individuals can maintain operational security .
In some cases, the dead drop might be equipped with a device to destroy its contents unless it is opened properly. Representative dead drop device Signals to tell a courier, or a case officer if there is no intermediate courier, that the dead drop needs service can be as simple as a piece of colored tape on a lamp post or perhaps a set of ...
Bab edh-Dhra (Levantine Arabic: باب الذراع, romanized: bāb əl-ḏrāʿ) is the site of an Early Bronze Age city located near the Dead Sea on the south bank of the wadi of al-Karak with dates in the EB IB, EB II, EB III, and EB IVA. [1] Bab edh-Dhra was discovered in 1924 on an expedition led by William F. Albright. [2]
Reportedly in the Al-Nukhailah Mosque, Al-Kifl, Iraq: Exact location unknown. According to Jewish tradition, Baruch's tomb is located about 1-mile (1.6 km) away from Ezekiel's Tomb near a town called "Mashhad Ali" which there is no record of ever existing. However, there is a tomb within the Al-Nukhailah Mosque in Al-Kifl dedicated to Baruch.
A manhunt is underway for “multiple shooters” who killed four people and injured 17 when they “fired upon a large group of people” in Birmingham, Alabama, police said Sunday.
The name Mea Shearim is derived from a verse from Genesis, which happened to be part of the weekly Torah portion that was read the week the settlement was founded: "Isaac sowed in that land, and in that year, he reaped a hundredfold (מאה שערים , mea shearim); God had blessed him" (Genesis 26:12).