11) Rehoboth, town, Israel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Rehoboth, town, Israel, see Rehovot, Israel....
12) Manasseh ben Israel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-57, Jewish scholar and communal leader, b. Portugal. Early in his life he settled in Amsterdam, where he became a rabbi and started (1627)...
13) Sharon, plain, Israel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Sharon, plain, Israel, (shaŽrn, sharŽn) (KEY) , plain between the Samarian Hills of central Israel and the Mediterranean Sea, extending c.50 mi (80 km) from Jaffa...
14) Israel. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...Israel The name given to Jacob after he wrestled with God. Israel is also the name of the northern kingdom of the Israelites, when their nation was split in two after...
15) Gaza Strip. The World Factbook. 2003
... Background:The Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (the DOP), signed in Washington on 13 September 1993, provided for a...
16) 1 Kings 12. The Holy Bible: King James Version.
...Israel's Revolt 2 Chr. 10.1-11.4 1 And Rehobo'am went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king. 2 And it came to pass, when Jerobo'am the...
17) West Bank. The World Factbook. 2003
... Background:The Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (the DOP), signed in Washington on 13 September 1993, provided for a...
18) Singer, Israel Joshua. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Singer, Israel Joshua, 1893-1944, Polish-American novelist and playwright who wrote in Yiddish, older brother of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Living variously in Poland...
19) Putnam, Israel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Putnam, Israel, 1718-90, American Revolutionary general, b. Salem (now Danvers), Mass. A farmer at Pomfret, Conn., he fought in the French and Indian Wars, seeing...
20) Zangwill, Israel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Zangwill, Israel, 1864-1926, English author, b. London. He became a journalist and founded Ariel, a humorous paper. Zangwill wrote Children of the Ghetto (1892),...
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