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The old Arabic name of Abu Ghosh, Qaryat al-'Inab (Arabic: قرية العنب, lit. 'Village of the Grapes'), has led to its identification with the biblical site of Kiryat Ye'arim (Hebrew meaning: "Village of Woods"), [2] the town to which the Ark of the Covenant was taken after it had left Beth-shemesh (1 Samuel 6:1–7:2). [4]
The Abu Ghoshes used an old crusader church as a prison. The relation between the Abu Ghoshes and the peasants of the villages was a patron-client relation. [1] According to tradition, any pilgrim or visitor to the holy sites passing through Abu Ghosh had to pay their respects to the Scheich.
The Resurrection Church [1] [2] (Hebrew: הכנסייה הצלבנית באבו גוש Latin: Ecclesia Resurrectionis Domini Nostri Iesu), or the Church of the Crusaders in Abu Gosh, is the name given to a Catholic religious building consisting of a structure of the time of the Crusaders who belonged to the Knights Hospitaller, and today is a part of the Benedictine monastery in Abu Ghosh, [3 ...
Benedictine monastery in Abu Ghosh Abu Ghosh monastery. The Benedictine monastery in Abu Ghosh, officially St Mary of the Resurrection Abbey, [1] (French: Abbaye Sainte-Marie de la Résurrection d'Abu Gosh) is a monastery run by the Olivetan Benedictine order in Abu Ghosh, Israel.
The Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant Church [1] [2] (Hebrew: כנסיית גבירתנו של ארון הברית, Founded in French: Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Arche-d'Alliance) [3] is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church [4] and is located on the northwestern edge of the town of Abu Ghosh [5] in the central Israel. [6]
David Daniel "Mickey" Marcus (February 22, 1901 – June 10, 1948) was a United States Army colonel, later Israel's first General, who was a principal architect of the U.S. military's World War II civil affairs policies, [1] [2] including the organization of the war crimes trials in Germany and in Japan.
History [ edit ] The land on which the kibbutz stands was purchased from the neighboring village of Abu Ghosh , and the name Kiryat Anavim is a hebraization of Qaryat al-'Inab ( Arabic : قرية العنب ), the older name of Abu Ghosh, which in turn is identified with the biblical town of Kiriath-Jearim .
Despite the official name of "Kiryat Ye'arim", the town is widely known as Telz-Stone, after the Telshe or Telz yeshiva, who had a branch there between 1977–79, [3] and American Greetings founder-chairman Irving I. Stone, who helped to finance the community's early development.