Over the year leading up to the raid, Israeli forces and civilians had conducted many punitive expeditions, causing destruction of infrastructure and crops and many civilian casualties against Palestinian villages, with Latrun, Falameh, Rantis, Qalqiliya, Khirbet al-Deir, Khirbet Rasm Nofal, Khirbet Beit Emin, Qatanna, Wadi Fukin, Idhna, and Surif being the most notable examples.

The Palestinian town of Khirbet Beit Lei (" The Ruin of the House of Lei ") is purported to be the location of the ancient home of Lehi, although there is only problematic and circumstantial evidence to support it.

Khirbet Beit Lei, Khirbet Beit Lehi or Beth Loya is an archaeological tell in the Judean lowlands, of Israel.

Khirbet Beit Lei was first surveyed by R. A. S.

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The Arab Liberation Army forces which had camped in the village left on July 14 – 16 after Jewish forces captured two dominating hilltops, Khirbet Beit Mazmil and Khirbet al-Hamama, and shelled the village.

De Vaux's initial dig co-director, G. Lankester Harding, in 1955 wrote an article where he presented Qumran as " a building in which John the Baptist, and probably Christ, studied: Khirbet Qumran ".

Near ' Ajjur, at Khirbet Jannaba al-Fauqa, was a probable site of the Battle of Ajnadayn between the Rashidun Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire, which resulted in a decisive Rashidun victory, incorporating most of Palestine into the domains of Islam.

However more recent scholars have suggested alternatives, including the ruined village of Kenet-el-Jalil ( also known as Khirbet Kana ), about 9 km further north, and Ain Kana, which is closer to Nazareth and considered by some to be a better candidate on etymological grounds.

From June 1948 to December 1949, during which time the Palmach was absorbed into the army, 527 members died, four hundred and fifty-two killed in action or in battle ; one hundred and one were killed during Operation Danny, including forty-five at Khirbet Kurikur ; fifty-three during Operation Yoav ; forty-four in Operation Horev and twenty-two during Operation Death to the Invader.

Villages in Galilee which are candidates for historical Cana are: Kafr Kanna, Kenet-l-Jalil ( also called Khirbet Kana ) and Ain Kana in Israel and Qana in Lebanon.

Recent scholars have suggested alternatives, including the ruined village of Kenet-el-Jalil ( also known as Khirbet Kana ), about 9 km further north, and Ain Kana, which is closer to Nazareth and considered by some to be a better candidate on etymological grounds.

15: 21 ) The place is possibly identical with Khirbet el Gharra ( Tel Ira ), which is located about 14 km east of Beersheba.

In 1949, he published the novella Khirbet Khizeh, in which he described the expulsion of Palestinian Arabs from their village by the IDF during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Regarding the scrolls De Vaux cautiously stated that " manuscripts were copied in the scriptorium of Qumran ... We may also suppose ... that certain works were composed at Khirbet Qumran.

It may have given rise to the later Khirbet Kerak ware culture found in Syria and Canaan after the fall of the Akkadian Empire.

Archaeological support for Mazar's dating and attribution to a 10th-century Israelite king may have increased following finds at Khirbet Qeiyafa, viewed by some archaeologists and paleographers as confirming the existence of a centralized and powerful Israelite kingdom in the early 10th century.

The tenth Umayyad caliph, Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, built a palatial complex known as Khirbet al-Mafjar about one mile north of Tell as-Sultan in 743, and two mosques, a courtyard, mosaics, and other items from it can still be seen in situ today, despite its having been partially destroyed in an earthquake in 747.

At the end of the 19th century, both Haluza ( by Wadi Asluj, south of Beersheba ) and Khirbet Zuheiliqah ( located north-west of Beersheba and south-southeast of Gaza city ) had been suggested.

They were specifically located at Khirbet Qumran in what was then British Mandate Palestine, and since 1947, what has been known as the West Bank.

The site of Khirbet Qumran had been known to European explorers since the 19th century.

It has been identified with Khirbet en-Nitleh, but today scholars regard Khirbet El Mafjir as the more probable identification.

Shiloh has been identified unambiguously with Khirbet Seilun by American philologist E. Robinson in 1838.

Khirbet Jadurah-This site is located on the south edge of the Jezreel Valley, but with no spring the site has been deemed incorrect.

" Nearby Khirbet Nisya has also been suggested, by excavator David Livingstone, as an alternative location for Ai.

They were followed by the extension of Khirbet Kerak ware cultures, showing affinities with the Caucasas, and possibly linked to the later appearance of the Hurrians.

Respectful references to the goddess Asherah or her symbol, for example, as part of the worship of Yahweh, are found in the eighth century inscriptions from Kuntillet Ajrud and Khirbet el-Qom, and references to the Canaanite gods Resheph and Deber appear without criticism in the original Jewish text of.

The collapse of the Akkadian Empire in 2154 BC saw the arrival of peoples using Khirbet Kerak Ware pottery, coming originally from the Zagros Mountains ( in modern Iran ) east of the Tigris.

Ziklag is generally agreed to be a significant corruption of the location's actual name ; Haluza was identified as the location on the basis of Ziklag being a corruption of Halusah ( slightly clearer in the underlying Hebrew script than in English ), meaning fortress ; Khirbet Zuheiliqah was identified by Conder and Kitchener as the location on the basis of Ziklag being a corruption of Zahaliku.

He found no traces of permanent tent dwellings and that any " dwelling quarters should be sought inside the wall of Khirbet Qumran, mainly on the upper floor.

Animal herding caused seasonal movement by herders to distant dwellings from the village site, but still in its vicinity such as, Khirbet al-Sura and Khirbet al -' Ammuriyya.

Archeological surveys at Khirbet Sharta in the northeast part of the city revealed traces of habitation dating to the Bronze, Iron, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Mamluk eras.

The site was also the location of Khirbet Duran, populated during the Roman, Byzantine and early Arab periods.

Forty-four were killed at Khirbet Kurikur on 18 July 1948.

() Its location is unclear, but today it is commonly identified with Khirbet Rabud southwest of Hebron.

File: Chi-rho mensa Louvre Ma 3023. jpg | Chi-Rho on a 4th century altar, Khirbet Um El ’ Amad, Algeria.

* A daughter, Dr. Zvia (" Tsiki ") Valdan, a linguist and professor at Beit Berl Academic College ;

*" the Book of the Dynasty of God's resisters ", perhaps from ס ֵ פ ֶ ר ב ֵּ ית ס ָ ר ְ ב ָ נ ֵ י א ֵ ל, Sefer Beit Sarevanei El (" Book of the House who strive for God ").

The ancient city of Beit Shemesh (" house of the sun " or " temple of the sun " in Hebrew ) was originally named after the Canaanite sun-goddess Shemesh, who was worshipped there in antiquity.

During the 1948 Arab – Israeli War, the Egyptian army invaded the area and set up a fortified post (" Mishlat ") on the hill that would later become Beit Shemesh.

Ramat Beit Shemesh (" Beit Shemesh Heights ") lies directly adjacent to the main part of Beit Shemesh.

Among the earliest composers of folk songs were Hanina Karchevsky (" BeShadmot Beit Lehem "), and David Ma ' aravi (" Shira Hanoar ").

" Bilu " is an acronym based on a verse from the Book of Isaiah ( 2: 5 ) " בית יעקב לכו ונלכה " Beit Ya ' akov Lekhu Venelkha (" House of Jacob, let us go ").

* Reshet Beit (" Network B "): popular news, current events, and talk radio station.

The Ayyubids defeated the Crusaders at a battle in Umm al-Nasser hill, just west of Beit Hanoun, and built the Umm al-Naser Mosque (" Mother of Victories Mosque ") there in commemoration of the victory.

* Beit Israel (" Perishah " and " Derishah "), Prof. Eliezer Segal

) Along with Karatiyya and Beit Jibrin, Darum was an amal (" district ") of the Province of Gaza with its own wali (" governor.

The name Beit Sahur belongs to two places in the vicinity: Beit Sahur al-Atiqah (" ancient Beit Sahur ") and Beit Sahur an-Nasara (" Beit Sahur of the Christians ").