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  Ramla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ramle flourished as the capital of Jund Filastin, which was one of the five districts of the ash-Sham (Syrian) province of the Arab-Muslim empire.
After the First Crusade Ramle became the seat of a seigneury in the Kingdom of Jerusalem (the Lordship of Ramla within the County of Jaffa and Ascalon and it was a city of some economic significance and served as an important station for the pilgrims on their way to the Holy City.
At the start of the Ottoman period, Ramle was described as a large town which lay mostly in ruins, with a small population.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ramla   (811 words)

  
 Case of Arieh (Arik) Goldman - Ramle, Israel
Since his arrest, Goldman told Ramle police the names of 22 local boys, aged nine to 14, whom he had molested or sexually assaulted over the last year-and-a-half, some repeatedly, and said there were others whose names he didn't remember.
Ramle police chief Duchovny, who is trying to persuade parents to testify against Goldman, says: "Not every family wants their friends and neighbors to know their child was sexually abused.
This is the third case police have uncovered over the past year in the center of the country in which a pedophile was preying on a large number of children in his area.
www.theawarenesscenter.org /goldman_arieh.html   (2727 words)

  
 Lydda and Ramle during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lydda and Ramle during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
Lydda(Lod) and Ramle were two medium-sized towns located on the important Tel-Aviv—Jerusalem road.
In the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Israel Defense Forces captured them on July 12, 1948 and expelled almost all of the towns' residents, an estimated 40,000 Palestinians, at gunpoint.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lydda_and_Ramle_during_the_1948_Arab-Israeli_war   (240 words)

  
 Ramle files billion-shekel class action against banks for alleged gouging on clearing fees
The city of Ramle claims that the banks use their common clearing company to clear all the standing orders in Israel, including those of the municipalities, the cellphone companies, the cable TV companies, the phone company, the electric utility, and so on.
Some 24% of the households in Ramle use them to pay their city taxes and other bills, the city says.
Over seven years, Ramle says, it was overcharged to the tune of NIS 811,000.
www.thestreet.com /pf/tech/themarker/10028000.html   (373 words)

  
 The Journal of History - Fall 2002
This transfer prompted the prisoners in Ramle to launch a hunger strike demanding her return.
Sawsan was recently transferred to Ramle Prison where she has been placed in an isolation cell.
Defense for Children International/Palestine Section is an independent, Palestinian non-governmental organization, established in 1992 to promote and protect the rights of Palestinian children as articulated in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as in other international instruments.
truedemocracy.net /td2_4/15-israel.html   (708 words)

  
 Grave Concern for health of detainees after 15 days hunger strike - Palestine Monitor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As a result of their deteriorating health, they were moved to Ramle Prison Hospital, after which an agreement was reached with the prison administration that they would end their hunger strike upon being removed from solitary confinement.
Within the same isolation section at Ramle Prison, two other detainees, Mahmoud Issa and Moutaz Hijazi, are being held together in another solitary confinement cell.
Hassan visited Ramle Prison in order to try to meet with the detainees, and was again informed of their refusal to meet lawyers.
palestinemonitor.org /updates/Grave_Concern_for_health_of_detainees.htm   (751 words)

  
 Palestinian woman detainee hospitalized   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The 67 other prisoners in the Zionist Ramle prison for women went on hunger strike in solidarity with Ulayan who started her open-ended hunger strike three weeks ago protesting cruel imprisonment conditions.
The detainees objected to the Ramle prison administration’s refusal to group them in one ward and demanded allowing them to exchange visits.
The Ramle prison for women groups seven juveniles and seven imprisoned under administrative detention orders.
www.palestine-info.co.uk /am/publish/printer_1074.shtml   (133 words)

  
 The Head Heeb: Israel - Minorities Archives
For a number of years now, the neighborhood has been caught in the middle of a jurisdictional dispute between Ramle municipality and the Emek Lod council, each of which claims the area belongs to the other and neither of which is willing to take responsibility for municipal services.
Ramle had provided school buses during previous years, but it cut off the bus service this September and refused to resume unless funding was provided by the Ministry of Education.
On Monday, a district court issued an injunction requiring Ramle to provide school buses until the jurisdictional dispute was settled.
headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/cat_israel_minorities.html   (12811 words)

  
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Although reports of such expulsions have been published by authors not subject to censorship, Israel remains highly sensitive to the issue, especially when it threatens to bolster Palestinian claims to territory that is now part of Israel.
There was no way of avoiding the use of force and warning shots in order to make the inhabitants march the 10 to 15 miles to the point where they met up with the legion.
C. Morris, Operation Dani and the Palestinian Exodus from Lydda and Ramle in 1948, The Middle East Journal, 40 (1986) 82-109.
student.cs.ucc.ie /cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0005217.txt   (768 words)

  
 Article: A Tree Grows in Ramle
Bashir suggested that it be devoted to the educational needs of Arab children in Ramle, who generally began school less prepared than their Jewish peers and tended to fall behind and drop out at a higher rate.
Even in Ramle, one of only a handful of cities in Israel with a mixed population, Jews and Arabs had little social interaction.
In the garden of the house in Ramle, that tree stands as a silent witness to two people's sufferings and hopes.
www.wau.org /current/article.asp?id=2267   (1812 words)

  
 MIFTAH.ORG--Child Prisoner Briefing, No. 19
In Ramle, the administration has now stopped the girls keeping or receiving any academic books and even needles and thread for embroidery work.
Ramle Women's Prison: On 17 September 2003, a DCI lawyer went to visit Ramle women's prison where there are 10 minors among the 68 Palestinian inmates.
Individuals: There is another pregnant woman in Ramle, 28 year old Manal Ibrahim Ghali from Tulkarem who is in her ninth month of pregnancy.
www.miftah.org /PrinterF.cfm?DocId=2506   (1832 words)

  
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Approximately 40 Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel demonstrated today (April 14, 2002) outside the Ramle Court House, in a show of solidarity with 11 Israeli Arabs who were arrested in Lod on April 9, for peacefully demonstrating against the Israeli occupation.
Court hearing in Ramle for 11 Arab citizens of Israel who were arrested for peaceful demonstration in Lod
A lawyer for the 11 defendants stated that the prosecution failed to show because they knew that they had no case, and, moreover, they did not want to drag out the proceedings any longer, due to the media and demonstrators outside the courthouse.
jerusalem.indymedia.org /news/2002/04/12891.php   (570 words)

  
 Pedophile suspect indicted for molesting five of 50 boys
Charges have been brought only in five cases, as many of the children Goldman confessed to assaulting, and their parents, have denied being victimized by him, according to Ramle police chief Dep.-Cmdr. Yifrah Ducovny.
Ramle police are continuing the investigation and will add sections to the indictment as the investigation proceeds, Ducovny said.
According to the charge sheet, Goldman, who worked as a medic and security guard at a Ramle school, used various pretexts to become close enough to the five boys so he could sexually molest them.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/659649/posts   (1374 words)

  
 Ramle-Gezer - Kansas City Partnership 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
On November 9, 2003, 115 dedicated members of the Kansas City Jewish community traveled to Israel for a ten-day mission which included the General Assembly.
The Ramle visit included mifgashim with high school students and tutoring in the language lab made possible by ONAD funding from Kansas City.
The day began with the dedication of Kikar Kansas City in the heart of Ramle.
www.partner.org.il /ramle/news-0312-del.html   (228 words)

  
 Chapter : Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem
Lydda District, composed of the subdistricts of Jaffa and Ramle;
Ramle subdistrict - Ramle, 'Aqir, Beit Nabala, Lydda, El Qubab and Zarnuqa; 15.
The Zionists also occupied 476 villages in the subdistricts of Acre, Beisan, Nazareth, Safad, Tiberias, Haifa, Jenin, Nablus, Tulkarm, Hebron, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Ramle, Beersheba and Gaza.
www.palestine-encyclopedia.com /EPP/Chapter11_2of7.htm   (6504 words)

  
 Mosaic Communities benefit, June 7, 2004
Mosaic Communties is now running a series of workshops which bring together 15- and 16-year-old youth in Ramle, Israel.
The establishment of a model community for Arabs and Jews who are also providing free or low-cost community services will facilitate the improvement of relations between the residents, and develop a foundation for additional communities.
Mosaic Communities' current projects are sited in Ramle, one of the most impoverished locales in Israel with the majority of the residents living at or below the poverty line.
www.cjpip.org /0406_mosaic.html   (436 words)

  
 Karaims of Israel
One of the first was Solomon Shabbethai Nono, a teacher of Hebrew, who is credited with having selected Ramle to be the main location of the Karaites in Israel (according to another tradition, the credit is due to Izhak Ben-Zvi, later the second President of Israel).
In 1970 the total number of Karaites in Israel was estimated by L. Nemoy at 7,000; in 1985, by E. Trevisan-Semi, at 10,000; and in the early 1990's it might have approached 15,000.
The main Karaite settlements in 1990 were in Ramle (700 households), Ashdod (800 households, equalling 4000 souls); Beer-Sheva (250 households/1250 souls); and Ofakim (220 households).
www.turkiye.net /sota/karaisr.html   (4068 words)

  
 The Head Heeb: Comment on Settlements of another kind
Open House Founded in 1991 to further peace and coexistence among Israeli Arabs and Jews in Ramle, Israel.
Open House Center in Ramle was founded in 1991 to further peace and coexistence among Israeli Arabs and Jews in this mixed city of 65000 residents.
Ariga: Human Rights and Peace Groups: Open House Michail Fanous, Palestinian Christian and on Ramle City Council OPEN HOUSE is a home in Ramle, Israel, that was owned by a Palestinian family before 1948.
www.blogmosis.com /cgi-bin/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=30376   (985 words)

  
 Palestine Chronicle
There is a physician at Ramle prison, but since she is Russian, she does not speak or understand Arabic, which makes it impossible treating psychological problems, which has, in particular, a negative effect on minors.
Prison guards broke into their cells and transferred Amna Mona to al- Jalami prison, and Suad Ghazal (18), who was arrested at the age of 15, to Abu Kbir detention center, and Ahlam al-Tamimi to the Russian Compound ('Moscowbiya') in Jerusalem.
In the same way that Israel is accountable under international law for preventing torture and ill- treatment, it is also required to uphold prisoners' privacy rights as codified in article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
palestinechronicle.com /article.php?story=20020819210232434   (1046 words)

  
 ZNet | Activism | Rafah and history
Some were eventually settled in Rafah refugee camp, established by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in 1949.
Others took refuge in the Palestinian towns of Lydde and Ramle, but it was not long before the Israeli Defense Forces launched an aerial and ground attack on the two towns in July 1948.
Codenamed “Operation Dani”, the Israeli Air Force bombarded Lydde and Ramle before Lieutenant Colonel Yitzhak Rabin commanded his troops into the towns.
www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=5559&sectionID=22   (658 words)

  
 Israel : torture and ill-treatment of femal prisoners and a child in Ramle (OMCT Human Rights NGO, against torture and ...
The International Secretariat has been informed by reliable sources of the torture and ill-treatment of female prisoners including a child, in the Neve Tertze women prison in Ramle, Israel.
guarantee the physical and psychological integrity of the female prisoners in Neve Tirtza prison in Ramle at all times and to ensure their access to medical care;
Fighting for the rights of the victims with strategies defined by those best placed to understand their needs, is the driving force of OMCT.
www.mafhoum.com /press2/66S21.htm   (1137 words)

  
 Welcome To al-Ramla
The status of Palestinian Arabs in Ramle/الأقلية العربيّة في المدن المختلطة
The LOOTED HOUSE of Shukri Rezik in al-Ramla which currently houses the city's municipality (7K)
Writer looking for stories/memories/documents of Ramle before 1948
www.palestineremembered.com /al-Ramla/al-Ramla   (1915 words)

  
 Untitled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
"Hafuh Al Hafuh" In Ramle Was Founded Six Years Age By "Elem" Council That Helps Needed Children To....
In Ramle There Are A Lot Needed Children And Because Of That "Haufh Al Hafuh" Was Founded!!!
"Elem" Council Decided That They Need To Open A Place In Ramle That Will Be In The Center Of The Town Because They Saw That A Lot Of Needed Children Are In Ramle So That's Why "Hafuh Al Hafuh" Was Founded...
hafuhalhafuh.4t.com /about.html   (228 words)

  
 International Fellowship of Christians and Jews: On Wings of Eagles Project List
Keren Ramle L'Hinuch Translators for the elderly, Ramle
, Hadera, Kiryat Malachi, Lod, Netanya, Ramle, Rehovot, and Yavne
Keren Ramle L'Hinuch Social worker and advocate for Argentine immigrants, Ramle
www.ifcj.org /site/PageServer?pagename=programs_wings_projectlist   (629 words)

  
 IMRA - Tuesday, October 14, 2003 PA sermon: Defends Haifa bombing, "We will not forget you, O Jerusalem, Haifa, Yafo, ...
PA sermon: Defends Haifa bombing, "We will not forget you, O Jerusalem, Haifa, Yafo, Lod, and Ramle" "take vengeance on the Jews and their allies"
PA sermon: Defends Haifa bombing, "We will not forget you, O Jerusalem,
IMRA - Tuesday, October 14, 2003 PA sermon: Defends Haifa bombing, "We will not forget you, O Jerusalem, Haifa, Yafo, Lod, and Ramle" "take vengeance on the Jews and their allies"
www.imra.org.il /story.php3?id=18528   (1036 words)

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