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  AllRefer.com - Ashqelon, Israel & Palestine (Israeli And Palestinian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
B.C. It was a trade center and port and a seat of worship of the goddess Astarte.
Ancient Ashqelon was conquered by the Philistines in the late 12th cent.
In 1955 the modern city of Ashqelon was founded when Afridar, a town established by South African Jews in 1952, and Migdal, a former Arab town, were merged.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Ashqelon.html   (299 words)

  
 The Media Line - News Detail
Ashqelon, a town on Israel’s coast, houses 116,000 residents and is located a mere 13 kilometers, or eight miles, from the Gaza Strip.
Ashqelon’s municipality is cautious not to be too explicit in its preparations for the ‘day after the withdrawal’ so as not to cause a public panic.
“Ashqelon is prepared in every possible way and is constantly being drilled by the Home Front and the police for any situation, whether it’s a Qassam missile attack or an earthquake,” the spokeswoman says.
www.themedialine.org /news/print_news_detail.asp?NewsID=11106   (1939 words)

  
 BikeAbout Trip Log: December 12, 1997
The problem is that we arrived in Ashqelon late in the day on Friday, which is when, at sunset, the Jewish Sabbath (and weekend) begins, lasting until sunset on Saturday.
While the new city of Ashqelon does not have much in the way of history or contemporary appeal, the nearby site of the ruins of ancient Ashqelon is important and will help us bring another piece of the Mediterranean historical puzzle into play.
In later years, Ashqelon was a hard fought prize during the Crusades and changed hands a number of times before finally being destroyed in 1270.
www.bikeabout.org /journal/notes_50.htm   (2051 words)

  
 Municipality of Ashqelon (Israel)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The municipality of Ashqelon is situated in the southern shore plain about 55 km south of Tel Aviv.
It is a very old city known from the biblical era, first mentioned in ancient Egyptian scrolls dating from 1900 BC.
Ashqelon is also mentioned in the famous David's grief on Jonathan.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/il-asqln.html   (123 words)

  
 Ashqelon - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Nearby is the site of ancient Ashqelon, or Ashkelon, whose history dates back to the 3d millenium BC It was a trade center and port and a seat of worship of the goddess Astarte.
Ashkelon flourished under the Greeks and Romans; Herod, believed to have been born there, greatly enlarged the city.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Ashqelon" at HighBeam.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ashqelon.html   (330 words)

  
 Talk:Ashkelon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Before recently when I merged Ashkelon and Ashqelon, Ashkelon was about the history of the city (including modern times), and Ashqelon was purely about the Israeli city with a few more specific details on it.
And "Ashqelon" is not as uncommon as you may think — there are thousands of Google results for it.
One reason that there was an entry Ashkelon for the ancient city and a separate Ashqelon for the modern one is that the modern city is not historically continuous with the ancient site, nor even exactly on the same ground.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Ashkelon   (828 words)

  
 The Media Line - News Detail
As you can see, some of the children are wounded and burned, and Israel has a reputation for treating those kinds of wounds," said the head of the Even Ezer foundation in Ossetia, Alan Gubaev, who helped organize the group.
In order to overcome the bureaucracy involved in arranging this operation, Ashqelon’s mayor asked Ya’akov Bar-Shimon — Israel's former Consul to Azerbaijan and the Caucasus — to use his good contacts in the region.
One of the activities the children were offered at the French Vacation Village in Ashqelon, was drawing workshops.
www.themedialine.org /news/print_news_detail.asp?NewsID=8319   (530 words)

  
 Operation Summer Rains (Update No. 5, July 6, 12 noon)
The step was taken in response to the attacks on the center of the city of Ashqelon during the two previous days.
It was fired from the northern outskirts of Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, near the disengaged Israeli settlements of Elei Sinai and Dugit.
The possession of such long-range rockets in Palestinian terrorist hands means that Ashqelon and dozens of other population centers in the northern and western Negev are now vulnerable to Qassam attacks.
www.terrorism-info.org.il /malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/summer_rains_e.htm   (1850 words)

  
 Detailed Reviews [The Ashqelon Quilt - 2001 - "The Event"] - ProgressoR
Almost all of the songs that are featured on "The Event" album were created within the framework of a unified stylistics.
Although, in a general sense, The Ashqelon Quilt's music can't be defined differently than Symphonic Progressive, in itself, at least instrumentally, it is in many ways original and unique.
In fact, the contents of "The Event" represent a moderately complex and rather mellow Classic Art-Rock with the elements of the Baroque music and Jewish folk melodies as well.
www.progressor.net /review/the_ashqelon_quilt_2001.html   (641 words)

  
 LET IT ROCK - THE ASHQELON QUILT interview
Israel's a country where primitive music seeming dominance is balanced by many a young tending to listen to sophisticated stuff.
Some of them even play it: "The Event", debut album from trio called ASHQELON QUILT was issued in England.
Quilt is something that's put together, like a mixture of origins of styles, and Ashqelon is a word that sounds nice with "quilt" and a Biblical city, a city where our origin is from the mother's side.
dmme.net /interviews/quilt.html   (2973 words)

  
 Ashqelon, Hadarom Illustrators - Illustration Service
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www.marketingtool.com /channel/illustrator/b.455.g.14224.html   (167 words)

  
 Ashqelon, Israel
In 1952 Jews from South Africa founded the settlement of Afridar (the present business district) to the east of Migdal, and this developed into the modern town of Ashqelon.
Ashqelon consists of five districts (Migdal, Givath Zion, Samson, Afridar and Barnea), lying some distance apart.
To the north of this road, immediately west of the railroad, is the industrial zone, with the terminal of the oil pipeline from Elat, and the former Arab village of Migdal, which was incorporated in the young town of Ashqelon in 1955.
www.planetware.com /israel/ashqelon-isr-st-aq.htm   (770 words)

  
 Israeli / Palestinian ProCon
Israel and Palestine will be divided on a horizontal line of latitude from Ashqelon to the center of the Dead Sea, Any change in the line can only occur after a two-thirds vote from both countries.
If any tourist does not abide by the Treaty of Ashqelon, than the individual(s), or tourists, persons will be dealt with by the judicial system of that country.
In order to end a law on the Treaty or end the Treaty itself, there must be a 2/3 vote by both countries and both governments must agree to add or delete the law in the Treaty.
www.israelipalestinianprocon.org /treaty.html   (785 words)

  
 Maps, map   Open Ended Palestinian & Arab Hunger Strike Started on 15/8/2004, Hunger Stike, Palestinian ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
After a one-day adjournment, inmates at Ashqelon Prison resumed their hunger strike.
In an attempt to break interconnection among prisoners, the administration at Ashqelon Prison ordered the placement of inmates in isolated cells upon their return from the military court.
The administration at Ashqelon, Beer Shiva' and Nafha prisons confiscated tooth brushes, toothpaste, soap and fans from striking prisoners.
www.mandela-palestine.org /en_strike2004/daily.htm   (1982 words)

  
 Hotels-Of-Israel Destinations,The Coastal Strip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The sandy Mediterranean coastline, from Ashqelon in the south right up to the Lebanese border, is dotted with modern seaside resorts and coastal cities.
Rosh Haniqra in the north is a warren of limestone grottoes and caves carved out of the white cliffs and reached by cable car.
South of Tel Aviv are the beaches of Bat Yam, the sand dunes of Ashdod, and the seaside resort community of Ashqelon, a Philistine city associated with Samson and Delilah.
www.hotels-of-israel.com /destinations/coastalstrip.htm   (290 words)

  
 Guardian | Israel plans retaliation for rocket strike
Israel's security cabinet approved the re-occupation of parts of the Gaza Strip today in response to a Palestinian rocket strike which hit the grounds of a school in the city of Ashqelon.
Officials told the Associated Press that the army would create a "security zone" in northern Gaza, after a Hamas rocket hit the centre of Ashqelon for the first time.
The Israeli army has already moved into areas of the south and north of Gaza as part of its campaign to free Corporal Gilad Shalit, who was abducted on June 25.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329521870-103552,00.html   (624 words)

  
 Ashqelon, Hadarom Copywriters - Copy Writer
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 Send flowers to Ashqelon. Send gifts to Ashqelon. Flowers delivery service - Ashqelon - Israel
Now you can make present and know that you have sent all the best.Now you have the possibility to send gifts to the birthday or Christmas and make the present for all occasions (delivery city is Ashqelon).
To delivery the flowers to addressee chosen it is enough for you to select carefully the floral design.
If you did not accept the shown assortment of flowers or gifts for Ashqelon you can make the personal order.
www.make-flowers.com /israel/ashqelon.html   (160 words)

  
 Israel
Ashqelon Quilt are a young 3-piece prog band from Israel, and The Event is their debut CD.
They also enjoy to add Celtic and Middle Eastern influences to their compositions, and I also hear neo-prog sounds every once in a while.
The lyrical style recalls the late-60s psychedelic rock scene, and have a naive quality that might not appeal to hardcore prog fans.
stevehegede.tripod.com /israel.htm   (2103 words)

  
 CD recensie: Ashqelon Quilt - The Event
De Israëlische groep The Ashqelon Quilt klinkt als het onschuldig ogende schooljongetje, wat toch enorm veel kattenkwaad uithaalt.
The Ashqelon Quilt noemt hun muziek zelf artrock en baseren hun stijl geheel op de Engelse stijl, vaak Canterbury genoemd, die ook eigen is bij Caravan, Hatfield and the North en Soft Machine.
Het is ook niet vreemd dat de muziek tevens sterk lijkt op hedendaagse groepen als Mercury Rev en Belle And Sebastian.
www.progwereld.org /cd-recensies/ashqelonquilt.htm   (430 words)

  
 Ashqelon - SkyscraperCity
yes it got no very tall buildings and i didnt really posted pictures of the main streets in ashqelon but ill do it and then youll be able to judge
Ashkelon and Ashdod go hand in hand, they are the last cities before the Negev IMO and then it all turns to desert.
Ashqelon and Ashdod both have a lot of morocans, georgians (gruzunim) and russians
www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=277269   (366 words)

  
 IsraCast: HAMASLAND vs. PALESTINE
In the Gaza Strip, despite Israel's evacuation last summer, terrorists there have escalated their attacks and again launched Qassam rockets at the Israeli town of Ashqelon to the north.
An Israeli official says: A senior Israeli source declares: ‘The terrorists have crossed a red line by launching a Qassam at the Israeli town of Ashqelon, north of Gaza on the Mediterranean Sea’.
Overnight, Israeli aircraft stepped up their raids on thirteen access routes to rocket launching sites as well as triggering sonic booms over the Gaza Strip to disrupt the launching of the rockets and to warn the Palestinian population.
www.isracast.com /transcripts/161205a_trans.htm   (524 words)

  
 The Ashqelon Quilt - The event
Diese zeitliche Einordnung macht man unweigerlich, wenn man sich "The event" von The Ashqelon Quilt ohne weitere Hintergrundinformationen anhört.
Beide Vermutungen waren völlig falsch: The Ashqelon Quilt kommen aus Israel und haben ihr Debüt "The event" just letztes Jahr aufgenommen.
Zwar erreichen The Ashqelon Quilt nicht immer gleichbleibendes Niveau, aber besonders wenn sie sich entweder im mehr folkloristischen oder progressivem Bereich bewegen, hat die Musik einige magische Momente.
www.progressive-newsletter.de /cd39_7.htm   (347 words)

  
 *SOLVED* Drawing an ellipse, using what instrument? - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Put two pins into paper and have loop of string go around the pencil and pins (you can even wrap it around pencil's end several times so string doesn't slide along pencil and cut through pencil's core).
I did build some drawing mechanics for math class in highschool tho.
Posted - 11/2/2006 2:03:12 PM I realize this is "solved", but meant to post this earlier - just gives some nice animations that might give you some ideas.
www.gamedev.net /community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=422153   (524 words)

  
 DWT for TV website
Concerning him, kings (rulers) shall shut their mouths because that which was not told to them they shall see and that they had not heard they shall meditate to themselves
in Gaza, Ashqelon, Ashdod and Ekron and the adjoining Sh'felah
Iraq Study Group Report, elder statesmen press for revival of faulty Road Map; target settlers
www.torahvoice.org   (124 words)

  
 Answering Critics
A bomber could blast this place and hit nothing but soldiers and soldier girls, except for the owner, the waitresses and me. I could see the report from Ariel Sharon's staff:
Suicide Terrorist Targets Innocent Israeli Teenagers in Ashqelon Recreation Establishment.
I was talking to a Russian poolroom owner on March 6th in a strip shopping center in seaside
www.whtt.org /articles/020530.htm   (3214 words)

  
 Ashqelon - günstige Shops bei dooyoo.de
Wer in Israel an der Mittelmeerkueste einen Badeurlaub verbringen moechte und dort nach einsamen Badebuchten sucht, wird sich schwer tun.Dies ist nicht viel anders am Strand von Ashqelon, und doch hat dieser Badeort meiner Meinung nach mehr Ruhe und Strandgenuss zu bieten als die uebrigen Straende an der israelischen Mittelmeerkueste.
Es gibt dort fuenf verschiedene Straende, wovon vier touristidch genutzt werden und ich an zweien dieser Straende gewesen bin.
Alles in allem hat Ashqelon als Stadt relativ wenig zu bieten, aber die Straende sind meiner Meinung nach sehr zu empfehlen, nichts sensationelles, aber immerhin...
www.dooyoo.de /reiseziele-international/ashqelon   (322 words)

  
 Slackertravel.com Stories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
12:45pm we left on the bus from Beer Sheva to Ashqelon
was supposed to arrive to Ashqelon and he told us
bus in Sederot and caught a cab to Ashqelon (though we
www.slackertravel.com /stories/gushqatif.html   (1192 words)

  
 Ashkelon (BiblePlaces.com)
Also known as Tel Ascalon, Tel Ashqelon, Ascalon, Ashqelon, 'Askalan, Askalon, Askelon, 'Asqalan, 'Asqelon
The Philistines who migrated to the coastal plain of Israel about 1200 B.C. settled in five major cities.
Ashkelon Experience (Harvard, The Leon Levy Expedition) One excavator tells first hand what can be gained from the volunteer excavation experience.
www.bibleplaces.com /ashkelon.htm   (634 words)

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