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.

The hometown of the judge Ibzan, Bethlehem of Galilee was inhabited by Jews until some time after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD.

According to Leila Sansour, Bethlehem residents are confined to less than 13 % of their original pre-war land.

Today, the majority of Palestinian Christians live outside of the former Mandate Palestine because of emigration in response to the 1948 War, and the Six-Day War in 1967, occupation by Jordan, Egypt, and most recently Israel, with 78 % of Christians blaming the ongoing exodus of Christians from Bethlehem on the Israeli occupation and travel restrictions on the area ..

In the lists, its best vote was 9. 4 % in Bethlehem, followed by 6. 6 % in Ramallah and al-Bireh, and 6. 5 % in North Gaza.

The Bethlehem property taxes to the Town of Burns Harbor represented about 90 % of the town's annual revenue.

Tourism in Bethlehem increased to about twice its previous levels, and tourism increased by 50 % in Jericho.

Dent won a re-election against Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan with 54 % of the vote, the smallest percent of the vote he received in his four elections.

St. Bethlehem is a very rapidly developing residential and commercial section of Clarksville seeing annualized real estate price increases surpassing 8. 5 % with a steady increase of single-family homes costing more than $ 120, 000.

Bethlehem — along with Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Sidon — was briefly ceded to the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem by a treaty between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and Ayyubid Sultan al-Kamil in 1229, in return for a ten-year truce between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders.

* 25 February: Two Israelis killed in a shooting attack between Tekoa and Nokdim, south of Bethlehem.

Taking the narrative literally and judging from the estimated population of Bethlehem, the Catholic Encyclopedia ( 1910 ) more soberly suggested that these numbers were inflated, and that probably only between six and twenty children were killed in the town, with a dozen or so more in the surrounding areas.

In the past, this cave was thought to be in Wadi Khureitun, between Bethlehem and the Dead Sea, but there is little evidence for this view.

Thus all communication between Bethlehem and Jerusalem was intercepted.

The story of Ruth, on the other hand, testifies to the existence of a friendly intercourse between Moab and Bethlehem, one of the towns of the tribe of Judah.

“ Is there no dunghill between Bethlehem and this place ?”

Currently as of the end of 2009, unmarked freight cars particularly covered hoppers are now parked and being stored along the southbound track in Perkasie between Market Street and Park Avenue, from Park Avenue to the Old Bethlehem Pike Bridge, and so on to Meetinghouse Road in Telford.

Jaques contacted the Bethlehem Iron Company with a proposal to serve as an intermediary between it and the Whitworth Company, so that Bethlehem could erect a heavy-forging plant to produce ordnance.

In early 1886, a contract between Bethlehem Iron and the Whitworth Company had been executed.

The emigration of Lebanese took to Para in the mid-nineteenth century, at the time of Rubber Cycle until 1914 and arrived in Bethlehem between 15 000 and 25 000 immigrants Syrian-Lebanese, of whom one-third went to Acre.

Some prominent, contemporary Christian scholars maintain the traditional view, arguing that the two accounts are historically accurate, and do not contradict each other, pointing to the similarities between the two accounts, such as the birthplace of Bethlehem, and the Virgin Birth.

In 1938, he went to Palestine, then in the midst of civil war, to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, " between two lines of tanks ".

The land had been purchased in 1925 by Zikhron David, a private Jewish land holding company at a site between Bethlehem and Hebron that fell between the zones of influence of the local Arab clans.

April-Bethlehem City Council approves zoning changes of the 163 acres ( 0. 7 km² ) of land owned by Bethlehem Steel between the Minsi Trail and Fahy Bridges.

The claim that the area was the birthplace of Zoroaster ( this is disputed because most experts agree Zoroaster was most likely born in the Sistan region between Iran and Afghanistan ), or even the burial site of one or two of the Zoroastrian priests who allegedly traveled to Bethlehem for Christ ’ s birth indicate that the city has been one of the largest religious and scientific centers of the ancient times.

" Mujir al-Din al -' Ulaymi ( 1495 ), the Jerusalemite qadi and Arab historian, writes under the heading of Qoubbeh Râhîl (" Dome of Rachel ") that Rachel's tomb lies under this dome on the road between Bethlehem and Bayt Jala and that the edifice is turned towards the Sakhrah ( the rock inside the Dome of the Rock ) and widely visited by pilgrims.

One last locally maintained section exists in the Albany suburb of Bethlehem, where the route is county-maintained between Feura Bush Road and the Delmar Bypass.

In Bethlehem, a southern suburb of Albany, NY 32 was originally routed on Feura Bush Road between the hamlets of Feura Bush and Glenmont.

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.

Efrat is located south of Jerusalem, between Bethlehem and Hebron, 6. 5 kilometers east of the Green line, inside of the Separation Barrier.

* November 1: two Israeli soldiers killed in a shooting incident near Bethlehem, and another one while guarding a town in Jordan Valley.

* 30 November Shadi Ahmad Hasan Zhoul, 14, of Husan, near Bethlehem, killed by an Israeli settler vehicle while walking to school.

Lafayette returned to the field in November after two months of recuperation in the Moravian settlement at Bethlehem, PA, and received command of Major General Adam Stephen's division.

He died on November 9, 1880 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he had lived since 1874.

In November 2008, the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation ( LVEDC ), along with both Lehigh and Northampton counties, commissioned a study to explore expanding the Raritan Valley Line to the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, which would potentially include stops in Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton.

Arriving at Bethlehem Steel Company Fore River Yard near Boston, Massachusetts, Sprague took command of Wasp where she was commissioned on November 24, 1943.

James Alexander McDougall was born November 19, 1817 in Bethlehem, New York and educated in the Albany grammar schools, where he excelled in mathematics and civil engineering.

On November 17, 1907, the Bethlehem Football Club played its first official match, an 11-2 loss to West Hudson A. A., at the time one of the top professional teams in the country.

This village was the birthplace of the most recent saint of the Melkite Church, Blessed Miriam Bawardy, a Discalced Carmelite mystic of the nineteenth century responsible for the Carmel of Saint David's Tower in Bethlehem who was beatified by Pope John-Paul II on November 13, 1983.

The 25 December Nativity of Christ was attested very early by Hippolytus of Rome ( 170 – 236 ) in his Commentary on Daniel 4: 23: “ The first coming of our Lord, that in the flesh, in which he was born at Bethlehem, took place eight days before the calends of January, a Wednesday, in the forty-second year of the reign of Augustus, 5500 years from Adam .” Another early source is Theophilus Bishop of Caesarea ( 115-181 ):" We ought to celebrate the birth-day of our Lord on what day soever the 25th of December shall happen.

After selling his interest in Bethlehem Iron Works in 1901 and his nickel works to CVRD Inco in 1902, he continued to actively acquire and manage a large and diverse business empire that included iron smelting in Wharton until just before his death in January, 1909.

John Stephen Piper ( born January 11, 1946 ) is a Calvinistic Baptist Christian preacher and author currently serving as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

On January 29, 2011, the sisters ' canonry of the Bethlehem Priory of St. Joseph was established with the solemn profession of the first nine canonesses at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Fresno, California.

Though all diesel service ended in January 1983 ( Newtown ), Bethlehem ( June 30, 1981 ), Newark ( July 30, 1981 ) and Reading ( Fall 1981 ), the design of the then-future tunnel omitted the inclusion of ventilation fans to disperse diesel exhaust fumes.

Christmas was celebrated on 7th of January here as a peaceful and quiet event to remind us of the Christ born in Bethlehem.

In the field of art, is characterized by the production of wax sculptures prepared by Ms. Angela Gutiérrez Soto, who in turn learned from her mother Mrs. Sofia Soto Oseguera, and who in the months of December, January and February produced Birth of Baby Jesus ( Bethlehem ), with the wax figures that she makes herself.

United States Ship McCord ( DD-534 ), a destroyer, was laid down 17 March 1942 at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company in San Francisco and launched 10 January 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Frank C. McCord, the widow of Commander Frank C. McCord for whom the destroyer was named.

President George W. Bush is joined by Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem and clergy at the Church of Nativity Thursday, January 10, 2008, in Bethlehem.

President George W. Bush listens as Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem, speaks during a visit to the Church of Nativity Thursday, January 10, 2008, in Bethlehem.