Netanya (, lit., " gift of God ") is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain.

The Central District (, Meḥoz haMerkaz ; ) of Israel is one of six administrative districts, including most of the Sharon region.

Omri Sharon (, born 19 August 1964 ) is a former Israeli politician.

* Controversies around the Sharon Mosque (, ), from the Boston Globe

Unit 101 ( Hebrew: יחידה 101 ) was a special forces unit of the Israeli Defense Forces ( IDF ), founded and commanded by Ariel Sharon on orders from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in August 1953.

On July 1, 2003, in Jerusalem, Sharon and Abbas held a first-ever ceremonial opening to peace talks, televised live in both Arabic and Hebrew.

( Hebrew חבצלת ) is a flower of uncertain identity translated as the Rose of Sharon in English language translations of the Bible.

According to an annotation of Song of Solomon 2: 1 by the translation committee of the New Revised Standard Version, " Rose of Sharon " is a mistranslation of a more general Hebrew word for " crocus ".

* Sephardic Hebrew poetry from the 10th-15th century demonstrates prolific use of the חבצלת ( ḥăḇaṣṣeleṯ ) translated into English consistently as " Rose of Sharon "; there are a few renderings as " lily " ( see Gate 47 of the Tahkemoni ).

Current excavations are being conducted by Ilan Sharon from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ayelet Gilboa from University of Haifa in co-operation with the University of Washington, the Weizmann Institute of Science, UNISA ( South Africa ), and other institutions.

This view is disputed by Amnon Ben-Tor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who believes that recently unearthed evidence of violent destruction by burning verifies the Biblical account. In 2012, a team led Ben-Tor and Sharon Zuckerman discovered a scorched palace from the 13th century BCE in whose storerooms they found 3, 400 year old ewers holding burned crops.

In November 1983, NJA protested Ariel Sharon at a Hebrew Academy banquet in San Francisco and over 2, 000 demonstrators turned out.

Sharon creates chandeliers in her workshop in Auckland, many of which featured on stage in the 2004 – 05 tours promoting the Everyone Is Here album.

He later studied method acting at the American Stanislavsky Theater and the Actors ' Studio under coaches Sonia Moore and Sharon Chatten which landed him his first paid role in Off-Broadway's " This Property Is Condemned.

Common unisex names in English speaking countries include Addison, Ainsley, Alex, Alexis, Angel, Ashley, Aubrey, Avery, Bailey, Beverly, Blair, Cameron, Cassidy, Chance, Chase, Cherokee, Courtney, Evelyn, Dakota, Dale, Darby, Darcy, Devin ( Devon ), Emerson ( Emmerson ), Evelyn, Fran, Francis, Hadley, Harlow, Harper, Hayden, Hollis, Hunter, Iman, Jamie, Jayden ( Jaden, Jaiden ), Jocelyn, Jordan, Joyce, Kelly, Kelsey, Kendall, Kennedy, Lauren, Lee ( Leigh ), Leslie ( Lesley ), Lindsay ( Lindsey ), Logan, London, Lynn, Mackenzie, Madison, Meredith, Morgan, Murphy, Noor, Parker, Paris, Peyton ( Payton ), Pheonix, Quinn, Reilly ( Riley ), Robin, Sage, Shannon, Sharon, Shirley, Sheridan, Shiloh, Sidney, Sky, Skyler ( Skylar ), Teagan ( Taegan ), Terry, Taylor, and Tracy ( Tracey ), Vivian, and Whitney.

The theme music of the same name was composed by Sharon Corr and performed by the Corrs.

When asked about the film, Milgram told one of his graduate students, Sharon Presley, that he was not happy with the film and told her that he did not want his name to be used in the credits.

This gives its name to a type of flowering shrub, the rose of Sharon.

* Sharon fruit, a name for one type of Japanese persimmon developed in Israel

* The 1960 film of the same name starred Burt Lancaster as Gantry and Jean Simmons as Sister Sharon Falconer.

It was incorporated as Sharon in 1791, taking its name from Sharon, Connecticut, where many of its settlers had originated.

A post office with the name Sharon was established August 2, 1815 ; the name was changed to Andover with effect from March 21, 1826.

According to local legend, the community received its name from a Bible-reading settler who likened the location to the Plain of Sharon in Israel.

Proby was suggested to him by his friend Sharon Sheeley, who had had a boyfriend of the same name at high school.

She is currently the Senior Manager of the Human Rights Campaign's Youth & Campus Outreach .< Ref name =" 2005 = 1 "> Wynne, Sharon Kennedy ( 23 June 2005 ).

In 1960, DeShannon signed with Liberty Records, adopting the name Jackie DeShannon, believed to be the name of an Irish ancestor, after executives at Liberty thought the name Sharon Myers would not help sell records.

Sharon is the name of some places in the U. S. state of Wisconsin:

Groulx, who is one of the intellectual guides of two generations of Quebecers and one whose name some wanted to see removed from the Lionel-Groulx station a few years ago, to probably replace it by the " Mordecai Richler " station, the René Lévesque Boulevard by, no doubt, " Ariel Sharon " boulevard, the Jacques-Cartier Place by the " Galganov " place, and so on.

A Pittsburgh woman, Sharon Levosky, called Cope the night of the game and suggested the name, which was coined by her friend Michael Ord.

Screenshot of Sharon Stone portraying Catherine Tramell from the movie Basic Instinct-this shot is used to identify Catherine Tramell in the article of the same name, and to identify and portray the style and feel of the interrogation scene of Basic Instinct in the article Basic Instinct.

In 1967 it was adapted into a dramatic film of the same name which was directed by Mark Robson, and stars Susan Hayward, Barbara Parkins, Sharon Tate, Patty Duke, and Paul Burke.

In North America the name Rose of Sharon is applied to a species in a different order, Hibiscus syriacus.

Rose of Sharon is a common name that applies to several different species of flowering plants that are highly valued throughout the world.

The name Rose of Sharon first appears in English in 1611 in the King James Version of the Bible.

* In Brazil, Rosa de Saron ( Portuguese for Rose of Sharon ) is the name of a well-known white rock group, that has include recorded some songs in English.

Through constant pressure by both infantry and cavalry, two Ottoman armies in the Judean Hills, were kept off-balance and virtually encircled during the Battles of Sharon and Nablus which have become known as the Battle of Megiddo.

A possible third species, which Kellner named Geosternbergia maysei in 2010, is known from the Sharon Springs member of the Pierre Shale Formation in Kansas, Wyoming, and South Dakota, dating to between 81. 5 and 80. 5 million years ago.

The Tate family grave at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, in which Sharon, her unborn son Paul, mother Doris Tate | Doris, and sister Patti are buried

Owain appears as a minor character in novels of Sharon Kay Penman concerning Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine (" When Christ and His Saints Slept " and " Time and Chance "), books which have more of an historical quality than those of Peters.

The story of Anne and Richard is portrayed in the 1982 novel The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman, which presents a sympathetic portrayal of Richard.

During the operation he suffered serious injuries, after which Sharon had recommended to the General Staff that an elite force, trained in commando tactics, be set up for reprisal operations.

Sharon became the commander of the merged brigade which composed of two battalions — 869 Battalion, made out of the original T ' zanhanim company personnel and 101 Battalion, made out of former Unit 101 personnel.

DiCaprio's first effort of 1995 was Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead, a western film in which he appeared alongside Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, and Russell Crowe, playing the role of Hackman's alleged son named Kid.

This synonimizing of the names is explained by Moshe Sharon who writes that the twin ancient settlements, which he calls Haifa-Sycaminon, gradually expanded into one another, becoming a twin city known by the Greek names Sycaminon or Sycaminos Polis.

* In May 2010 the reality series The Fabulous Beekman Boys, which is set in Sharon Springs, aired its first episode.

There is a road passing from the town of Sharon into East Walpole which is known as Old Post Road, which continues north as Pleasant Street into Norwood.

Geoffrey is an important character in Sharon Penman's novel When Christ and His Saints Slept, which deals with the war between his wife and King Stephen.

The most plausible story is what his wife, Sharon, later told interviewers is that in 1967, while currently unemployed and recovering from his collapsed lung ailment, Holmes would attend a men's card playing club which was called the Poker Palace, located in Gardena, California, a few evenings a week to play cards with a few friends where a photographer, standing next to Holmes at a men's room urinal, saw his unusually large penis size and then gave him his business card with an offer to pose in still photographs.

After his death, his ex-wife Sharon came across a foot locker that was plated in 24k gold leaf, which contained photographic references of his " private work.

The current Skagit County commissioners include Sharon Dillon, a Democrat from District 3, which encompasses Burlington east of Interstate 5, Sedro-Woolley, and the rest of eastern Skagit County ; Ken Dahlstedt, a Democrat from District 2, which covers Mount Vernon, Conway, and south county ; and Ron Wesen, a Republican from District 1, which includes Anacortes, La Conner, and that area of the county west of Interstate 5 and north of McLean Road.

The museum's founding date is given in the AP interview / article by Sharon Cohen, which appeared in the Standard-Times on February 17, 2003, and is quoted in the IDS interview, see above.

On May 20, 2010, George Clinton received a proclamation from Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs of Plainfield, New Jersey, the city in which he was raised, at a fundraiser for the Barack Obama Green Charter High School, which is focused creating leaders in sustainability for the 21st Century.

The Phoenician inscription on the sarcophagus of King Eshmunʿazar of Sidon ( 5th century ) relates ( ANET, p. 662 ): " Furthermore, the Lord of Kings gave us Dor and Joppa, the mighty lands of Dagon, which are in the Plain of Sharon, in accordance with the important deeds which I did.