A popular spot for inshore sea fishing, Torr Head also boasts a coastguard station, which is notable in that it was built on and out of the remains of Dunvarragh, the fort of Barach.

Kumar has been a Fiction Fellow at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, a Barach Fellow at the Wesleyan Writers Festival, and has received awards from the South Asian Journalists Association for three consecutive years.

The song " Qana " was about the Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese village of Qana.

The Israeli song " Prague ", written by Shalom Hanoch and performed by Arik Einstein at the Israel Song Festival of 1969, was a lamentation on the fate of the city after the Soviet invasion and mentions Jan Palach's Self-immolation.

* Israeli pop superstar Ofra Haza recorded the song entitled " שיר אהבה " ( Love Song ) on her 1988 album " Shaday ".

Orphans also continues Waits's newfound interest in politics with " Road to Peace ", a song about the Israeli – Palestinian conflict.

* " Or ", a song by Israeli singer Chen Aharoni in Kdam Eurovision 2011

* " Kan " ( song ), the Israeli entry at the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest

describe the song " 09-15-00 " as " Ariel Sharon surrounded by 1, 000 Israeli soldiers marching on al-Haram Ash-Sharif & provoking another Intifada ," and the back cover of that album depicts the relationships of several major record labels to the military-industrial complex.

* The Israeli psych-progressive rock band Jericho Jones recorded a song named " Mare Tranquilitatas " as the opening track of their UK album release ( 1971 ) " Junkies, Monkeys & Donkeys ".

* " Jerusalem of Gold ", Israeli patriotic song written in 1967

In 2003, the song " Millim Laahava " (" Words for Love ") won at the national finals organized by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority (" IBA ") television channel, Channel One, against three other songs for the privilege to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, due to his prominence and popularity on the Israeli popular music scene.

Most Jews celebrated the event as a liberation of the city ; a new Israeli holiday was created, Jerusalem Day ( Yom Yerushalayim ), and the most popular secular Hebrew song, " Jerusalem of Gold " ( Yerushalayim shel zahav ), became popular in celebration.

An example is Shir Hamitpachat, (" Song of the Kerchief ") a Polish song by Jerzy Petersburski ( Niebieska chusteczka, Sinij Platochek, синий платочек ) with Hebrew lyrics by the Israeli poet and lyricist Natan Alterman.

Aris San, who worked at the Zorba club in Jaffa, owned and opened by Shlomo Bachramov wrote songs for Aliza Azikri ( Bahayim hakol over, Yesh ahava ata omer ), that effectively broke down the barriers between Israeli song and the world of Greek and Mizrahi music.

"... the stations perceived it their duty to initiate special projects for the preservation of the Israeli song heritage and to encourage the writing and recording of ' authentic ' music.

From 1960 to 1980, Israeli radio and television promoted music by running frequent song contests.

Song contests received an important boost in 1978 when the Israeli song " A-Ba-Ni-Bi ", sung by Izhar Cohen and Alphabeta, with words by Ehud Manor and music by Nurit Hirsh, won first prize in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Minutes before Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was murdered at a political rally in November 1995, Israeli folk singer Miri Aloni sang the Israeli pop song Shir Lashalom ( Song for Peace ).

This song, originally written in 1969 and performed extensively by the Lahaqot Tsvayiot at the time, has become one of the anthems of the Israeli peace camp.

* Nostalgia ( Hebrew site ) – history of Israeli song with downloads of historic recordings in the public domain

The group had a big hit in 1950 with Leadbelly's " Goodnight, Irene ", backed with the 1941 Israeli song " Tzena, Tzena, Tzena ", which in turn became a best seller.

The Israeli musician Shlomi Shaban recorded a version of this song translated into Hebrew, which appeared on his 2007 album Ir ( עיר, City ).

She also made a few TV appearances ( such as 60th Anniversary of Israel where Fabian performed a Hebrew song and duetted with Israeli singer Noa ).

This was no man's land, disputed by the Haijac Union and the Israeli Republic, a potential source of war for the last two hundred years.

On 9 February 2012, Steinsaltz was honored by Israeli President Shimon Peres with Israel's first President's Prize for his scholarship in Talmud.

Many refugees from areas captured by Israeli forces in 1947 – 48 fled to the Bethlehem area, primarily settling in the what became the official refugee camps of ' Azza ( Beit Jibrin ) and ' Aida in the north and Dheisheh in the south.

In 2002, it was a primary combat zone in Operation Defensive Shield, a major military offensive by the Israeli Defense Forces ( IDF ).

One of the primary reasons that the Israeli constitution remains unwritten is the fear by whatever party holds power that creating a written constitution, combined with the common-law elements, would severely limit the powers of the Knesset ( which, following the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty, holds near-unlimited power ).

But the date is of special significance to futurists since it is the year of Jerusalem's capture by Israeli forces during the Six-Day War.

Historically, control of the Israeli government has alternated between periods of rule by the right-wing Likud in coalition with several right-wing and religious parties and periods of rule by the center-left Labor in coalition with several left-wing parties.

The movement is supported by the Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel, an American organization that provides funding to Masorti programs, which are disadvantaged by the Israeli government's practice of funding only Orthodox institutions.

* Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Caesarea Development Corporation Ltd., the private corporation filling much of the role typically filled by a municipality for the Israeli city of Caesarea

The power plant on the Israeli side allows production of magnesium metal ( by a subsidiary, Dead Sea Magnesium Ltd .).

On 4 February 2008 an Israeli woman was killed and 38 others injured in the town by a Palestinian suicide bomber ( see Dimona bombing ).

Under technical assistance contracts, Israel serviced Israeli planes within the air force inventory as well as Boeing civilian aircraft flown by TAME and Ecuatoriana Airlines.

* A 1986 Israeli film directed by Amos Gitai entitled Esther.

At least 70 new members entered the latter, with 20 seats going to Fatah representatives from the Gaza Strip, 11 seats filled by women ( the highest number of votes went to one woman who spent years in Israeli jails for her role in the resistance ), four seats went to Christians, and one was filled by a Jewish-born convert to Islam, Uri Davis, the first Jewish-born person to be elected to the Revolutionary Council since its founding in 1958.

Fatah used to be designated terrorist under Israeli law and was considered terrorist by the United States Department of State and United States Congress until it renounced terrorism in 1988.

During the Sinai campaign of November 1956, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula were occupied by Israeli troops.

The Second Intifada broke out in September 2000 with its waves of protest, civil unrest and bombings against Israeli military and civilians, many of them perpetrated by suicide bombers, and the beginning of rockets and bombings of Israeli border localities by Palestinian guerrillas from Gaza Strip, especially from Hamas and Jihad Islamic movements.

The Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza was monitored by the Israeli army through special surveillance cameras.