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The Negev and Yiftah Brigades fought in the Negev against the Egyptian army and managed to stop and later repulse it into the Gaza Strip and Sinai.
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Negev and Brigades
Five Israeli Brigades were involved: The 8th Armoured Brigade commanded by Yitzhak Sadeh ; the Negev Brigade ; the Golani Brigade ; the Harel Brigade ; and the Alexandroni Brigade whose task was to maintain the siege of the 4, 000 strong Egyptian brigade at Faluja.
Negev and fought
During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War Rabin directed Israeli operations in Jerusalem and fought the Egyptian army in the Negev.
As a young man he volunteered and fought in World War II as a member of the British Army, and in the Negev on the southern front in the Israeli War of Independence.
Negev and against
In January 1964, Nasser called for an Arab League summit in Cairo, with the stated purpose of establishing a unified Arab response against Israel's plans to divert water from the Jordan River to irrigate the Negev Desert.
At the end of Israel's War of Independence Operation Horev was a large scale attack against the Egyptian army in the Western Negev.
* About 7: 52pm, a Qassam rocket was launched against Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak in the Negev.
He re-captured Philistine-occupied lands in the Negev desert, formed alliances with Ashkelon and Egypt, and made a stand against Assyria by refusing to pay tribute.
Negev and Egyptian
Its goal was to drive a wedge between the Egyptian forces along the coast and the Beersheba – Hebron – Jerusalem road and ultimately to conquer the whole Negev.
But the southern Negev Desert, allocated to a Jewish state in the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, was still under Egyptian control.
Following Operation Yoav, the Egyptian Army tried to stabilize a defensive line between its two arms of controlled territory in the Negev, along the Beer Sheva-Gaza road.
The Negev brigade followed the tanks of the 8th brigade across the Egyptian border on the night of 28 December and moved towards El-Arish.
Egypt's early gains in the war were reversed when, on 22 December 1948, the Israeli army, in " Operation Horev " drove Egyptian forces out of the Negev and encircled the Egyptian Forces in the Gaza Strip, forcing Egypt to withdraw and accept a ceasefire.
Negev and army
In the early 1950s the Israeli army relocated the majority of the Bedouin living in the Negev to an area under Martial Law north of Beersheba know as the Siyah (" the fence " in Arabic and Hebrew ).
After the establishment of the Israeli army, the Palmach was reorganised into three IDF brigades — the Negev Brigade, the Yiftach Brigade, and the Harel Brigade.
This is his main occupation until Israel gains freedom, when he joins the Israeli army and is assigned to the Negev desert.
Sites along the Petra-Gaza road were apparently used by the Roman army in the 4th and 5th centuries when the road continued to function as an artery between Petra and the Nabataean Negev settlements.
Negev and stop
" Arab Knesset member Talab el-Sana called upon the government, " to put a stop to the racist plans of Judaizing the Galilee and Negev and adopt development policies for all the Galilee and Negev's residents ".
Negev and later
When the Israeli nuclear program started later that decade, a location not far from the city was chosen for the Negev Nuclear Research Center due to its relative isolation in the desert and availability of housing.
" Also later he confirmed this by stating that, " In the Negev we shall not buy the land.
Achsah later requests, and is given, upper and lower springs of water ( presumably in the Negev ) from her father.
The Negev was later part of the Kingdom of Solomon and then part of the Kingdom of Judah.
It later became one of several development towns in the Negev.
It included two Palmach battalions ( the 1st and 7th ), and later also the 2nd, which was transferred from the Negev Brigade.
Sarig decided to divide the Negev into two sectors, divided by the Beersheba – Gaza road ( later Highway 25 ).
He also oversaw the construction of the Soroka Medical Center and helped establish the Negev University, later renamed in honor of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister and a proponent of developing the Negev desert.
Negev and into
Hai-Bar efforts have successfully re-introduced the Asian Wild Ass, or Onager, into the Negev.
It can be split into five different ecological regions: northern, western, and central Negev, the high plateau and the Arabah Valley.
* In March 1988, the Yamam was called into action after a group of three Palestinians hijacked a bus full of women returning from work at the Negev Nuclear Research Center near Dimona, in an incident known as the " Mothers Bus ".
The fact that Shoshenq I left behind " explicit records of a campaign into Canaan ( scenes ; a long list of Canaanite place-names from the Negev to Galilee ; stelae ), including a stela at Megiddo " supports the traditional interpretation.
According to Israeli authorities it was in response for its use as a base from which Palestinian militant groups have fired Qassam rockets into the northern Negev towns like Sderot, as well as the former Gush Katif settlements.
Israel has continued the policy of sedentarization of Negev Bedouins imposed by the Ottoman authorities, and at first it included regulation and re-location-during the 1950s Israel has re-located two-thirds of the Negev Bedouins into an area that was under a martial law.
According to Albright, Abraham was a wandering Amorite who migrated from the north into the central highlands of Canaan and the Negev with his flocks and followers as the Canaanite city-states collapsed.
* 2008 February 27: In February, 257 rockets and 228 mortars were fired from the Gaza Strip into the western Negev causing five injuries and on 27 February the death of a 47 year old student at Sapir College.
Ben-Sasson, under Diocletian ( 284-305 ) the region was divided into Palaestina Prima which was Judea, Samaria, Idumea, Peraea and the coastal plain with Caesarea as capital, Palaestina Secunda which was Galilee, Decapolis, Golan with Beth-shean as capital, and Palaestina Tertia which was the Negev with Petra as capital.
The proposal has also generated some concern in Egypt, which believes that the canal will increase seismic activity in the region ; provide Israel with water for cooling its nuclear reactor near Dimona ; turn the Negev Desert into a settlement area and increase well salinity ..
Negev and Gaza
" In August 2011, Voight visited terror victims at Soroka Medical Center in the Negev after attacks from Gaza.
" Rashid Abu Shbak, a senior PA security official declared, " The light which has shone over Gaza and Jericho the PA assumed control over those areas will also reach the Negev and the Galilee constitute a large portion of pre-1967 Israel.
In return, Israel would allow the Palestinians to use a highway in the Negev to connect the West Bank with Gaza.
In the Israeli proposal, the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be linked by an elevated highway and an elevated railroad running through the Negev, ensuring safe and free passage for Palestinians.
Also, many Nahal-founded settlements are still thriving today in the Galilee, the Negev, and the West Bank ( as well as formerly in the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip ).
On 13 May 1948, Najd was occupied by the Negev Brigade as part of Operation Barak, and the villagers were " driven out " to Gaza.
Sderot received a symbolic name, after the numerous avenues and standalone rows of trees planted in the Negev, especially between Beersheba and Gaza, to combat desertification and beautify the arid landscape.
In the north the Nabateans took control of the trade route that crossed the Negev from Petra to Gaza.
By district two hundred and thirty-four died in the Negev and Southern Plain ; sixty-two in Jerusalem and surrounds ; forty-four around Latrun ; forty-two in the Gaza Strip and forty-one in the Central Plain and Coastal Strip.
The remainder of the area designated as part of an Arab state under the UN Partition Plan was partly occupied by Egypt ( Gaza Strip ), partly occupied and annexed by Israel ( West Negev, West Galilee, Jaffa ).
According to the IDF, the rocket fired at Kibbutz Alumim in the Negev marked the first time militants in Gaza have used this type of weapon.
Shalom region ) is an area in the western Negev desert close to Israel's border with the Gaza Strip and Egypt's Sinai.
Located close to the Gaza Strip, it falls under the jurisdiction of Sdot Negev Regional Council.
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