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Encyclopedia > Alei Zahav

Alei Zahav (Hebrew: עלי זהב), lit. Golden Leaves, is an Israeli settlement located on the western edge of the central Samarian region of the West Bank, about 20 km east of Tel Aviv, and overlooking Israel's main Ben Gurion International Airport. The town, under the administrative municipal government of the Shomron Regional Council, is adjacent to Peduel and Beit Arieh. Hebrew redirects here. ... Map of Israeli settlements (magenta) in the West Bank. ... It has been suggested that Sebastia, Middle East be merged into this article or section. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer) (symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). ... Tel-Aviv was founded on empty dunes north of the existing city of Jaffa. ... Ben Gurion International Airport or Ben Gurion Airport (Hebrew: ) (IATA: TLV, ICAO: LLBG), once widely known as Lod Airport, is located near Lod, 15 km southeast of Tel Aviv, and is the largest international airport in Israel. ... Offices of the Shomron R.C. Shomron Regional Council emblem The Shomron Regional Council (Hebrew:מועצה אזורית שומרון) is a regional council in the northern Samarian hills, also known as the northern part of the northern half of the West Bank. ...


Founded in 1983 on state lands by non-Orthodox Jewish Israelis from the Beitar and Herut movements, the yishuv is now home to about 120 families. The town is named after Aliza Begin (wife of former Prime Minister Menachem Begin). The original name of the town had been Yoezer. Orthodox Judaism is the formulation of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmudic texts (The Oral Law). Various Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim expounded upon these same Talmudic texts. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... The Betar Movement (ביתר, also spelled Beitar) was founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Zionist leader Zeev Jabotinsky. ... Herut (Hebrew: חרות Freedom) was the political party of the Revisionist Zionist movement in Israel. ... Yishuv is a Hebrew word meaning settlement. ...   (August 16, 1913 – March 9, 1992) (Hebrew: מְנַחֵם בְּגִין) was a Polish-Jewish head of the Zionist underground group the Irgun, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the first Likud Prime Minister of Israel. ...


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