The neighboring Palestinian Arab towns of Lydda and Ramle, home to some 50,000 people in 1948, were located inside the UN-designated area of Arab control. But they were also situated near ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

What happened at Lydda In his celebrated new book, Ari Shavit claims that “Zionism” committed a massacre in July 1948. Can the claim withstand scrutiny? By MARTIN KRAMER/ MOSAIC JULY 3, 2014 14:35 ...

Object Details Credit line Sidney N. Shure Collection Date October 25, 1947 Object number 0.270209.43.17 Type Covers & Associated Letters Medium paper; ink Place Palestine (British mandate) See more ...

He means the “ghetto” of the Palestinian town of Lydda, created by Jewish forces who uprooted tens of thousands of Palestinians on a death march in one of the bloodiest massacres of the 1948 ...

And immediately he got up. 35 And all the residents of Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.36 Now in Joppa there was a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek is Dorcas.

Last week Sarah Hecht stepped down from an Israeli plane at Lydda airport into the bearlike embraces of her husky sons. She wore workaday Russian clothes and new shoes and stockings, but the only ...

Object Details Credit line Sidney N. Shure Collection Date December 9, 1945 Object number 0.270209.42.31 Type Covers & Associated Letters Medium paper; ink Place Palestine (British mandate) See more ...

Air traffic was resumed at Lydda Airport today after a 24-hour strike by pilots and maintenance crews in support of strong international measures against air piracy and terrorism.