Lydda occupies the site of the Old Testament Lod, which is referred to in Ezra, ii:33, and Nehemiah, xi:35. It was an ancient Benjamite city which was rebuilt after the captivity, and through all the ...

Lydda, 1948: A City, a Massacre, and the Middle East Today. By Ari Shavit. The New Yorker, October 21, 2013. What Primary Sources Tell Us About Lydda 1948. By Naomi Friedman. NJBR, February 19, 2014.

This is the twenty-ninth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. This entry deals with Peter’s missionary travels to Lydda and Joppa and his powerful encounter ...

The only regular Arab troops defending Lydda (and Ramla) was a minuscule force of 125 men-the Fifth Infantry Company of the Transjordanian Arab Legion. The defenders of Lydda (and Ramla) were ...

The town of Lydda posed an early test of how the Israeli state would treat Palestinians. It is a legacy playing out today in violence between Jews and Arabs in Lod, as it’s now known. By Max ...

When war broke out in 1948, he returned to Lydda. In July, Israeli forces led by Moshe Dayan entered Lydda and its population emptied.

Over 1,000 cultural figures have signed a statement in solidarity with the community of Lydda, a Palestinian city south of Tel Aviv increasingly threatened by racist Israeli extremists. Artists ...

Lydda airport was opened today to civilian traffic. The field has not been used by non-military craft since the outbreak of fighting more than half-a-year ago. Communications Minister David Remez ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. What an intriguing premise. John Wolfson draws on an account in the New Testament Apocrypha of the mortally ill ...

The Lydda terminal building was built in the 1930s and enlarged many times to keep pace with increasing air traffic. It was recently renovated to handle large crowds of travellers and visitors.

Delegation Concerning Lydda Airport The following communication, concerning Lydda Airport, has been received from Mr. Fletcher-Cooke of the United Kingdom Delegation ...

Part Biblical melodrama, part Carry On Up The Colosseum, with a bit of Horrible Histories thrown in for good measure, it’s hard to see how John Wolfson’s wildly uneven The Inn at Lydda graduated from ...