Article: Between Jerusalem and Hebron: Jewish Settlement in the Pre-State Period.(Review)

Article: Symbolism and landscape: the Etzion bloc in the ...
Middle Eastern Studies;  October 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... region that later became known as the Etzion bloc. In the years that followed, the JNF ... motivation in 1967 for resettling the Etzion bloc -- the first area in Judea and Samaria ... Samaria. The renewal of settlement in the Etzion bloc -- its goals, location, and the form ...

Article: Bill to incorporate Etzion Bloc defeated
Jerusalem Post;  January 5, 1995 ;     327 words ...LIAT COLLINS Jerusalem Post 01-05-1995 MK ELIAHU Ben-Elissar (Likud) failed in his attempt yesterday to pass his private member's bill proposing to place Gush Etzion under Israeli jurisdiction, but succeeded in introducing a new term to the Knesset minutes. " 'De-confiscation' is not a word you

Article: Partner to Partition: The Jewish Agency's Partition Plan in the ...
Perspectives on Political Science;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... edition of the author's Jewish Settlement in the Hebron Mountains and the Etzion Bloc, 1940-1947, published ... accelerated program of Jewish settlement that extended, for the ... was restricted was the Etzion bloc and the Jerusalem vicinity ...

Article: Settlement meeting nixed after ministers voice doubts
Jewish Telegraphic Agency;  April 9, 1995 ;     351 words ... ... West Bank. The committee was created in January after controversy erupted over expansion in Efrat, a Jewish settlement in the Gush Etzion bloc. The three officials expressing doubts were Foreign Minister Shimon peres, Communications Minister ...

Article: Israeli army plans to build temporary separation barrier around ...
AP Worldstream;  March 13, 2005 ;     600 words ... ... the West Bank, according to Israel's Justice Ministry. The barrier places the largest Jewish settlement, Maaleh Adumim, and the Gush Etzion bloc of settlements on the Israeli side. Both are near Jerusalem. Palestinian officials were ...

Article: Poll: 62% say Ma'aleh Adumim and Gush Etzion strengthen Jerusalem
Jerusalem Post;  May 13, 2007 ;     485 words ... ... Page: 03 Sunday, May 13, 2007 -- Three out of every five Jewish Israelis believes that Jewish settlement in Ma'aleh Adumim and the Gush Etzion bloc strengthens Jerusalem, even though more than half are willing to make some concession in ...

Article: The way we were
Jerusalem Post;  February 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... it will later this year. It wasn't always that way. The undisputed cradle of the Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria has always been the Etzion bloc, south of Jerusalem. Here Jews lived well before 1948 in a cluster of settlements that ...