Siege of Tyre
The city of Tyre has been besieged many times throughout history.
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Kiryat Shmona (Hebrew: קִרְיַת שְׁמוֹנָה, lit. Town of the Eight) is a city located in the North District of Israel on the western slopes of the Hula Valley near the Lebanese border.
Population: 22,035
Latitude: 33° 12' 26.39" N
Longitude: 35° 34' 19.63" E
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The 1997 Israeli helicopter disaster occurred on 4 February 1997. 73 Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed when two Sikorsky S-65C-3 Yas'ur 2000 helicopters, 357 and 903, collided over She'ar Yashuv in northern Israel. The helicopters were supp…
Qana
Qana also spelled Cana (in Arabic: قانا) is a village in southern Lebanon located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southeast of the city of Tyre and 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of the border with Israel.
Upper Galilee
The Upper Galilee (Hebrew: הגליל העליון, HaGalil Ha'Elion) is a geographical-political term in use since the end of the Second Temple period, originally referring to a mountainous area overlapping the present northern Israel and southern Lebanon, i…
Montfort Castle
Montfort (Hebrew: מבצר מונפור, Mivtzar Monfor) is a ruined crusader castle in the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, about 22 miles (35 km) northeast of the city of Haifa and 10 miles (16 km) south of the border with Lebanon.
Ain Mallaha
Ain Mallaha, also known as Eynan, was a Natufian settlement built and settled circa 10,000–8,000 BCE.
Nabatieh Governorate
Nabatieh Governorate (Arabic: محافظة النبطية, Muḥāfaẓat an Nabaṭīya) is one of the six governorates of Lebanon. The area of this governorate is 1,058 km².
Bint Jbeil
Bint Jbeil (Arabic: بنت جبيل) is the second largest town in the Nabatiye Governorate in Southern Lebanon.
Night of the Gliders
Night of the Gliders (Hebrew: ליל הגלשונים, Leil HaGilshonim) refers to an incident that took place on 25 November 1987, in which two Palestinian guerrillas infiltrated into Israel from South Lebanon using hang gliders to launch a surprise attack a…
Toron
Toron, now Tibnin or Tebnine in southern Lebanon, was a major Crusader castle, built in the Lebanon mountains on the road from Tyre to Damascus.
Lake Ram
Lake Ram (Arabic: بحيرة مسعدة, Hebrew: בריכת רם) is a crater lake (maar) in the northeastern Golan Heights, near Mount Hermon. The only sources of the lake are rain water and an underground spring. The water does not leave the lake to any other bo…
Tel Hai
Tel Hai (Hebrew: תֵּל חַי, meaning "Hill of Life" in Hebrew; Tal-ha in Arabic) is a name of a former Jewish settlement in northern Israel, the site of an early battle in the Arab–Israeli conflict, and of a noted monument, tourist attraction, and a c…
Marjayoun
Marjayoun (Arabic مرجعيون, also Marj 'Ayoun, Marjuyun or Marjeyoun - meaning "meadow of springs") is a Lebanese town (also known as Jdeideh / Jdeida / Jdeidet Marjeyoun) and an administrative district, Marjeyoun District, in the Nabatieh Governorate…
Az-Zeeb
Az-Zeeb or al-Zib (Arabic: الزيب) was a Palestinian Arab village located 13.5 kilometers (8.4 mi) north of Acre on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Mentioned in the Bible by its ancient name Achzib, evidence of human settlement at the site dates…
Tegart fort
A Tegart fort is a type of militarized police fort constructed throughout Palestine during the British Mandatory period.
Hasbani River
The Hasbani River (Arabic: الحاصباني / ALA-LC: al-Ḥāṣbānī; ) or Snir Stream,(Hebrew: נחל שניר / Nahal Snir), is the major tributary of the Jordan river. The Hasbani River derives most of its discharge from two springs in Lebanon, the Wazzani and t…
Naqoura
Naqoura (Arabic: الناقورة, Enn Nâqoura, Naqoura, An Nāqūrah) is a small city in southern Lebanon.
Meron, Israel
Meron (Hebrew: מֵירוֹן, Meron) is a moshav (cooperative village) on the slopes of Mount Meron, in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel near Safed, and within municipal jurisdiction of the Merom HaGalil Regional Council.