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  Junction
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Junction (rail) A junction, in the context of signalling.
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 Golani Brigade - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Golani Brigade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In the upper Galilee located north of Haifa at the Golani Junction stands the Golani Brigade Museum commemorating the brigade and its heroes.
Golani is the most veteran IDF brigade and earned a reputation for its die-hard soldiers: who tend to be fearless, impulsive and warm.
Golani Brigade is equipped with the heavy IDF Achzarit armored personnel carrier.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Golani-Brigade.html   (432 words)

  
 Golani Junction Definition / Golani Junction Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Golani Junction is in the upper GalileeGalilee (Hebrew hagalil הגליל, Arabic al-jaleel الجليل), meaning circuit, is a large area located in what is currently northern Israel (Tzafon), traditionally divided into three parts: Upper Galilee, Lower Galilee and Western Galilee.
Golani junction is the northernmost of its planting centers.
Golani junction is the Golani Museum, devoted to the history of the Golani regiment.
www.elresearch.com /Golani_Junction   (90 words)

  
 Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL) invites you to participate in a unique experience: As the years go by, the sapling you ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lying in the verdant hills of Galilee, approximately halfway between Nazareth and Tiberias, KKL's Tree Planting Center at Golani junction is the northernmost of its planting centers.
The junction is named after the I.D.F's Golani Brigade, which established a museum and memorial to its fallen soldiers nearby.
In addition to its modern significance, the area is also steeped in thousands of years of history, from the biblical story of Deborah the prophetess and her victory over the Canaanite forces, to the Battle of the Horns of Hittim, where Salah a Din led his armies to victory over the Crusaders in 1187.
www.inisrael.com /kkl/golani.htm   (212 words)

  
 Embassy of israel Press releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The ISA (Israel Security Agency), in cooperation with the Israel Police, last weekend uncovered the Fatah Tanzim cell that planted the bomb that exploded at Golani junction on August 31, 2001.
The cell initially planned to plant the bomb at a school in Carmiel and detonate it on the first day of the new school year, but, fearing the security at the school, changed their plans.
On Friday, August 31, the two arrived at Golani junction and planted the bomb at the northbound hitchhiking stop.
www.israelemb.org /press/terror/2001090500.html   (399 words)

  
 israelinsider: security: Israeli forces foil major terrorist attacks in Jerusalem, Galilee
Security forces close the Golani Junction in Israel's north, after a bomb exploded as sappers were attempting to neutralize it.
Since Thursday, a state of very high alert was declared for the Western Galilee area, due both to a specific threat of a suicide bombing attack and indications that Hizbullah forces in Lebanon might be preparing an offensive action, either a kidnapping, a cross-border foray, or a missile attack on Israel's north.
It is unclear whether the bomb which exploded at the Golani junction was related to either of these threats.
www.israelinsider.com /channels/security/articles/sec_0089.htm   (406 words)

  
 Arutz Sheva - Israel National News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
(IsraelNN.com) The assailant in custody in the stabbing attack of an IDF soldier at Golani Junction earlier today is a 17-year-old Israeli Arab citizen, a resident of the northern municipality of Kafr Kana.
The soldier wounded in the attack was seated at a bus stop when he was stabbed in his abdomen, and reportedly sustained moderate-to-serious wounds.
Muhmad headed a Galilee area terror cell known as “Galilee Liberators” and he was killed while attempting to perpetrate a shooting attack at Beit Rimon Junction.
www.israelnn.com /news.php3?id=66083   (230 words)

  
 Information on Terror Victims   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Sharon was one of the last soldiers to leave Lebanon when the IDF pulled out in May. His commanders in Golani said that he was exceptionally talented, and that he was to have taken examinations for the Officers Corps.
She was killed while waiting for a bus at the Azor junction that would take her to the base where her officers' training course was set to begin, her lifelong dream.
They had missed the ride to their base by a couple of minutes and caught a bus to Azur junction, where they were killed in the bus attack.
www.terrorvictims.com /information.htm   (10550 words)

  
 Kinneret Guide Online - Tours out of Tibrias 1
Before Golani junction, on the right, is Lavi, a religious kibbutz with a pleasant guest house.
Continuing on Road 87, turn left at the junction for Katzrin, the urban centre of the Golan.
A highlight here is the Golan Archaeological Museum, which displays finds from the area and includes a hall devoted to the story of the ancient town of Gamla with an audiovisual presentation.
galileeguide.com /kguide/tour1.asp   (906 words)

  
 Angry quarry workers block Golani junction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The quarry workers, most of them Arabs, blocked the Golani junction yesterday for an hour in protest against plans to shut the site down by the end of the month.
On Sunday, the workers were assembled by the CEO of Kinneret Quarries, Shlomo Porat, and were told that there is a good chance that they would be laid off because the business would be closing in the coming weeks.
The workers decided to protest the move and blocked the busy Golani junction, an action that led to the arrest of three protesters by the police.
www.labournet.de /internationales/heib.html   (287 words)

  
 Jerusalem Post | Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The 20-year old soldier who was stabbed twice in the abdomen by an Israeli Arab teenager at the Golani Junction on Wednesday just after 3:30 p.m., is recovering in hospital and is listed in light-to-moderate condition.
Bilal's brother Mohammed was killed this April in a shootout with a Border Police patrol near the Beit Rimon junction in the north after trying to ambush the patrol.
The border policemen in the car were acting as decoys to capture a gang responsible for a series of firebomb attacks on police cars between the Hamovil and Golani junctions.
www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer&cid=1090380216505&p=1078027574121   (571 words)

  
 Israel News - Prime Ministers Office   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Police, last weekend, uncovered the gang of Fatah Tanzim terrorists that planted the bomb that exploded at Golani junction on 31.8.2001.
The gang members are Israeli minors, residents of Deir Hana, who had been enlisted in the Tanzim by militants from the Jenin area, with whom they had previously been acquainted either through work or via social contacts.
The gang initially planned to plant the bomb at a school in Carmiel and detonate on the first day of the new school year but, fearing the security at the school, changed their plans.
www.israelpr.com /primesec1.html   (426 words)

  
 Gimp House: Feel like Dudu Topaz
At Golani junction I realized it was in fact the 845 which goes no where near Afula!
The driver let me off at Golani and got my chair out from under the bus.
My orders from Irit were to call her from Golani Junction.
gimphouse.blogspot.com /2004/05/feel-like-dudu-topaz.html   (1158 words)

  
 Israel Studies: McIsrael? On the "Americanization of Israel".@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Drive up to Golani junction in the hills above Tiberias at nearly any time of day, and you'll find dozens of soldiers, hitchhiking home or back to their bases.
A few meters away stand the stone and concrete structures of the Golani Memorial--a national shrine to the fallen of that crack infantry brigade...
Since last year, some oft he structures have been partially obscured by a new kind of monument: the golden arches of a McDonald's franchise.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:63131671&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (168 words)

  
 israelinsider: security: Israeli Arab teens arrested for terror bombing in the Galilee
Scene of the bombing attempt at Golani Junction in Israel's north last Friday.
In a case that dramatically illustrates the conflicting loyalties among Israel's ethnic minorities, four Arab teenagers with Israeli citizenship from the Galilee town of Dir Hana were arrested by Israeli security forces and charged with planting a large bomb at the Golani junction on Friday, discovered by an Israel soldier of Bedouin descent.
The brother of one of the arrested youths serves in an IDF combat unit.
www.israelinsider.com /channels/security/articles/sec_0092.htm   (830 words)

  
 Family of missing soldier Oleg Shaikhet fears the worst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Police did receive one lead from a woman IDF officer who said she had hitched a ride with Shaikhet from the Amiad junction, north of Tiberias, where he had alighted from a bus on Monday evening.
The officer said she got off at the Golani junction, but understood that Shaikhet went on with the lift as far as the Beit Rimon intersection, where there is a turnoff from the main Tiberias to Haifa road that leads through Arab villages, including Kafr Kana, to Nazareth and Upper Nazareth.
The information was publicized via the media on Thursday and, as a result, the driver of the vehicle who gave the two a lift contacted the police, which gave no further details about his testimony.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/952908/posts   (1672 words)

  
 f18
In 1949, a modest memorial to fallen soldiers of the Golani Brigade was built at a junction--hence its name, Golani Junction--north of Haifa, in the Lower Galilee.
“The Golani Junction was exclusively identified with the Golani Brigade and Israeli cultural values,” Azaryahu stated.
That the Golani Junction case caused great unhappiness to bereaved parents, who felt that their memorial was losing out to commercialism, was reported in great detail, he said.
research.haifa.ac.il /~focus/1998-winter/f18.html   (1933 words)

  
 golani brigade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In the past few years, the Golani Brigade has become known as the Mutineers Brigade.
At different times, two Golani company-size units revolted against their officers, left their posts in the field, and went home.
Site where you can buy Golani Brigade merchandise
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 Banyas
On June 10th, 1967, the last day of the Six Day War, Golani Brigade forces quickly conquered the small village of Banyas where a Syrian fort stood.
After this modern bridge there is a bridge from the Roman period over the junction of Hermon and Govta rivers, made of large chiseled stones.
The interior is covered with travertine, the chalky deposits of spring water.
mosaic.lk.net /g-banyas.html   (1223 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Golani Brigade
East German BRDMs on parade during celebrations of the 40th anniversary of East Germany in 1989 Armoured personnel carriers (APCs) are light armoured fighting vehicles for the transport of infantry.
During the Israeli War of Independence in October 1948, Operation Horev was a wide scale attack against the Egyptian army in the Western Negev.
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www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Golani-Brigade   (1304 words)

  
 Israel Line
In a Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement, Israel expressed its disappointment with the EU and called into question their ability to play a "constructive role" in the diplomatic process.
A 17 year-old Israeli-Arab stabbed a 20 year-old Israeli soldier twice in the abdomen at the Golani Junction this afternoon, THE JERUSALEM POST reported.
The wounded soldier was treated with first aid by Magen David Adom Paramedics on the scene and then rushed to Poliyah Hospital in Zefat where he was reported to be in moderate condition.
www.mfa.gov.il /MFA/Archive/Israel+Line/2004/Israel+Line+21-July-2004.htm   (978 words)

  
 israelinsider: politics: Young soldiers paid heavy price in Megiddo bombing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Violetta Hizgayev and St.-Sgt. Eliran Buskila were two of the 17 Israelis killed in the bombing of a bus at the Megiddo junction.
Thirteen of the seventeen victims in Wednesday's terrorist bombing of an Egged bus at the Megiddo junction were young Israeli soldiers, on their way to bases in the north of the country.
Attorney Zion Agmon was on his way to the Tiberias courthouse with his son, Yuval, who was going to his base near the Golani junction.
web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Politics/1083.htm   (1476 words)

  
 Zion Agmon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Jun 5, 2002 - Zion Agmon, 50, of Hadera, was one of 17 people killed when a car packed with a large quantity of explosives struck Egged bus No. 830 traveling from Tel-Aviv to Tiberias at the Megiddo junction near Afula.
Attorney Zion Agmon was on his way to the Tiberias courthouse with his only son, Yuval, who was going to his base near the Golani junction.
He is survived by wife, Margalit, and his son Yuval, 19.
www.newyork.israel.org /mfa/go.asp?MFAH0lsk0   (224 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | The forgotten prisoners
He and a schoolfriend were accused of planting a plastic bag on 31 August 2001 at a road junction where soldiers congregate.
At his trial in July 2002 Rabiah and his friend, both juveniles, were found guilty of placing explosives at the Golani Junction and received nine years each.
On 30 August Rabiah collected a plastic bag filled with explosives and took it to the Golani Junction.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/651/re3.htm   (1447 words)

  
 IngentaConnect McDonalds or Golani Junction? A Case of a Contested Place in Isra...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
This conflict transformed Golani Junction, previously associated with the meanings assigned to the Golani memorial, into a contested place and a controversial issue.
With this, the controversial character of the Golani Junction is also an aspect of a wider debate concerning cultural identity in Israel.
Beyond the local context and specific issues involved, the controversies that transform the Golani Junction into a contested place demonstrate how conflicting interpretations of place and the politics of its meaning are formulated in terms of landscape features and architectural details.
www.ingentaconnect.com /content/bpl/prog/1999/00000051/00000004/art00185   (270 words)

  
 ISA Arrests terrorists responsible for August 31 explosion at Golani Junction - 5-Sep-2001
ISA Arrests terrorists responsible for August 31 explosion at Golani Junction - 5-Sep-2001
ISA Arrests terrorists responsible for August 31 explosion at Golani Junction
The naivete of several of the cell members - minors, who were being exploited by seasoned terrorist organization militants without any thought to their ages and the prices they might have to pay - is viewed with alarm.
www.newyork.israel.org /mfa/go.asp?MFAH0kg40   (413 words)

  
 Tiberias museums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
This museum is found at the Kibbutz Lohame Haghettaot.
A memorial dedicated to those of the Golani Brigade who died in battle
A look at the tels, or hills, in the area with an impressive collection of archaeological finds.
www.israworld.com /CITIES/TIB/TIBmus.HTM   (123 words)

  
 Research Report on the Subject of the British Park funded by the Jewish National Fund UK (First draft)
This junction is marked by large, prominent stones.
Stop at the junction near the large terebinth tree, to the right (north) of the junction.
If you're feeling too lazy to go up to the olive press, you can relax in the shade of the huge terebinth (the entrance is on the other side), while your companions make their way to the cave.
student.cs.ucc.ie /cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/jnfUK/jnf.html   (4726 words)

  
 Location
Continue North (left turn and immidiately right) to Golani Junction (on the way to Tiberias) and take a left turn to Kadarim Junction and than a right turn to Amiad Junction.
Take right (to Shfaram) and continue East to Hasmovil junction where you take a left turn (North) to Golani junction (toward Teberias).
Continue North to Kadarim Junction and than a right turn to Amiad Junction.
www.migal.co.il /Location.html   (625 words)

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