As the neighborhood expanded south along the valley, many of the lots were purchased by well-to-do Christian Arab families attracted by its location between the road to Bethlehem and the developing neighborhoods of Katamon, Talbiya, and Baka, which were populated by some of Jerusalem's wealthiest Arabs.

Over the next 25 years, the Bethlehem campus expanded with the purchase of new dormitories and the construction of new classroom wings.

The Basbus family served as the heads of Bethlehem among other leaders during this period.

However, Bethlehem is affected also by annual waves of hot, dry, sandy and dust Khamaseen winds from the Arabian Desert, during April, May and mid-June.

Yazen Muhammad Eisa al-Haliqa, 17, of al-Khader, near Bethlehem, killed by IDF gunfire to his head and chest during a demonstration.

Walid Muhammad Ahmad al-Badan, 17, of Taqou, near Bethlehem, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest during a demonstration near the Tekoa settlement.

On June 19, 2010, they played a very well received concert at NEARfest, a progressive rock festival in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and during this show they introduced new songs for a forthcoming album.

The Marquis de Lafayette, according to legend, stopped at Wagner ’ s Tavern in Hellertown on his way to Bethlehem during the war.

The main activity of Palmer Township during its earliest years was providing access roads from the neighboring city Easton to surrounding communities, including Bethlehem, Freemansburg and Nazareth.

Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's 15 shipyards produced a total of 1, 121 ships, more than any other builder during the war and nearly one-fifth of the U. S. Navy's two-ocean fleet.

USS Massachusetts ( BB-59 ) | USS Massachusetts was built at Bethlehem Steel's Fore River Shipyard during World War II.

* Bethlehem Steel Corporation had 15 shipyards during World War II

Subsequently, he was reassigned to work among the Delaware Indians along the Delaware River northeast of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he remained for another year, during which he was ordained by the Newark Presbytery.

However, scholarly arguments regarding the realism of shepherds grazing their flock during the winter have taken place, both challenging a winter birth for Jesus, as well as defending it by relying on the mildness of winters in ancient Israel and rabbinic rules regarding sheep near Bethlehem before February.

Also during World War II, the institute was honored by the naming of the Victory Ship, SS Stevens Victory, a merchant cargo ship built by the Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard at Baltimore.

In early 2012, Jobson confirmed that he re-formed the U. K. trio lineup — Jobson, John Wetton, and Terry Bozzio -- for a one-off world tour, which took place from from May – June 2012, with the trio playing dates in North America and Japan and Alex Machacek ( guitar ) and Gary Husband ( drums ) substituting for Bozzio in the band lineup during the European dates and a final added show in which the band played at NEARFest Apocalypse in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania as the Sunday headliner.

In the first half of the 20th century, Bethlehem Steel maintained a plant which built military transports during World War I and World War II.

The area saw an economic decline during the period of deindustrialization, leaving many empty steel mills including those of Bethlehem Steel, which was the 2nd largest steel mill in the world.

Additionally, Lin traveled to Jerusalem during the siege of Bethlehem to cover tensions between Israel and the Palestinian territories, and to Salt Lake City in 2002 to cover the Winter Olympics.

Bethlehem Steel built United States Navy Destroyers during World War II.

When the Empress was exiled from Ethiopia during the Italian occupation from 1936 to 1941, she made a pledge to the Virgin Mary at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, promising to give her crown to the church if Ethiopia were liberated from occupation.

Born to a Jordanian Muslim father and a American mother, Shoebat lived in the occupied territories during the early part of his life in the village of Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem.

She also made appearances at the Aspen Music Festival, the Bethlehem Bach Festival, the Cincinnati Opera, the Tanglewood Music Festival, and appeared in concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and The Little Orchestra Society during the 1950s.

He was at Bethlehem during its two most significant years, recording such artists as Oscar Pettiford, Ruby Braff, Carmen McRae, Charles Mingus, Herbie Mann, Charlie Shavers, and the J. J. Johnson-Kai Winding Quintet.

Gaston and Tancred were sent ahead of the main army to occupy Bethlehem, and during the siege of Jerusalem, Gaston was in charge of Godfrey's siege engines.

According to the Gospel of Luke, his birth occurred in the town of Bethlehem during the reigns of King Herod the Great of Judaea and the Roman Emperor Augustus, and he was the son of the Virgin Mary, who conceived him by the power of the Holy Spirit.

In 1841, Bethlehem came under Ottoman rule once more and remained so until the end of World War I.

During World War II, the Glenn L. Martin Company in Middle River had 53, 000 employees manufacturing airplanes for the war effort and Bethlehem Steel had more than 30, 000 workers at its sprawling Sparrows Point steel mill.

After World War II the population of Cudahy worked for plants operated by General Motors, Chrysler, Firestone, and Bethlehem Steel.

The rest of the album contained original songs created by him or members of his family, including " Season's Greetings ", " You're All I Want And Need For Christmas ", " It's Christmas All Over The World ", " Christmas Eve's Blues ", " Something Good This Christmas ", and " The Bethlehem Story ", a rewrite of Burke's own version of The Little Town of Bethlehem story, or The Night Before Christmas .” The final track on the album is " The Christmas Prayer ", a ' thank you ' sermon from Burke, which had been written by Burke in 1980, and released by Savoy Records in 1982 as the flip side to his cover of " Silent Night.

During World War I and World War II, Bethlehem Steel was a major supplier of armor plate and ordnance to the U. S. armed forces, including armor plate and large-caliber guns for the Navy.

During World War II, as much as 70 percent of airplane cylinder forgings, one-quarter of the armor plate for warships, and one-third of the big cannon forgings for the U. S armed forces were turned out by Bethlehem Steel.

During World War I, he was an assistant general manager of Bethlehem Steel and developed a friendship with Franklin D. Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

During the first years of World War I, Bethlehem Steel had a virtual monopoly in contracts to supply the Allies with certain kinds of munitions.

After World War II, American Export Lines purchased four C3-class Windsor-class attack transports built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. at Sparrow's Point, Maryland, had them refitted as passenger-cargo liners, and placed them in service as the new " 4 Aces.

In World War I these were joined by Beardmore, and, in the US, Bethlehem Steel.

His book The Star that Astonished the World claimed the " Star of Bethlehem " was the planet ( or " wandering star " in antiquity ) Jupiter, or Zedeq (" Righteousness ") in Hebrew, leading the wise men to Jesus in Bethlehem on December 25, 2 BCE, coinciding with the Jewish Festival of Lamps or Hanukkah that year.

When the U. S. entered into World War II the Lithic lab was discontinued and Crabtree returned to California to assist in the war effort as a coordination engineer for Bethlehem Steel Company, which built the ships for the Pacific effort until the war ended.

" At the start of World War II colonists with German citizenship were rounded up by the British and sent, together with Italian and Hungarian enemy aliens, to internment camps in Waldheim and Bethlehem of Galilee.

Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke offhandedly speculated, in his television series Mysterious World, that this pulsar was the Star of Bethlehem.

His mother is from Bethlehem ; his father, George John Hanania, from a prominent Christian family in Jerusalem, served with the U. S. Army during World War II and with the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ), the predecessor of the CIA.