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Vardiya (film)
Vardiya ( he, ורדיה, also Vardia) is a neighborhood in Haifa, Israel. Established in the 1980s, Vardiya is located in the upper Carmel, between the Hadar Hacarmel and Romema. The pine forests ringing the neighborhood were once a popular site for family recreation and hiking. Several archeological sites and the ruins of stone houses several hundreds years old were discovered on the hills. The residential towers in this largely upscale neighborhood offer a panoramic view of Haifa Bay. During Operation Desert Storm, a Patriot missile site was deployed in Vardiya. See also *Neighborhoods of Haifa The Israeli city of Haifa is divided into nine quarters, which are subdivided into subquaters, which are further divided into neighborhoods. This is a list of the neighborhoods of Haifa. Alphabetical list: * Ahuza (Horev) * Bat Galim * Car ... References {{coord, 32, 47, 37.56, N, 34, 59, 49.63, E, display=title Neighborhoods of Haifa he:כרמל (רובע)#ורדיה ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entrance To Vardiya
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Vardiya Haifa
Vardiya ( he, ורדיה, also Vardia) is a neighborhood in Haifa, Israel. Established in the 1980s, Vardiya is located in the upper Carmel, between the Hadar Hacarmel and Romema. The pine forests ringing the neighborhood were once a popular site for family recreation and hiking. Several archeological sites and the ruins of stone houses several hundreds years old were discovered on the hills. The residential towers in this largely upscale neighborhood offer a panoramic view of Haifa Bay. During Operation Desert Storm, a Patriot missile site was deployed in Vardiya. See also *Neighborhoods of Haifa The Israeli city of Haifa is divided into nine quarters, which are subdivided into subquaters, which are further divided into neighborhoods. This is a list of the neighborhoods of Haifa. Alphabetical list: * Ahuza (Horev) * Bat Galim * Car ... References {{coord, 32, 47, 37.56, N, 34, 59, 49.63, E, display=title Neighborhoods of Haifa he:כרמל (רובע)#ורדי ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haifa
Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area in Israel. It is home to the Baháʼí Faith's Baháʼí World Centre, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a destination for Baháʼí pilgrimage. Built on the slopes of Mount Carmel, the settlement has a history spanning more than 3,000 years. The earliest known settlement in the vicinity was Tell Abu Hawam, a small port city established in the Late Bronze Age (14th century BCE). Encyclopedia Judaica, ''Haifa'', Keter Publishing, Jerusalem, 1972, vol. 7, pp. 1134–1139 In the 3rd century CE, Haifa was known as a dye-making center. Over the millennia, the Haifa area has changed hands: being conquered and ruled by the Canaanites, Israelites, Phoenicians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Hasmoneans, Romans, Byzantines, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea, and shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel also is bordered by the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively. Tel Aviv is the economic and technological center of the country, while its seat of government is in its proclaimed capital of Jerusalem, although Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem is unrecognized internationally. The land held by present-day Israel witnessed some of the earliest human occupations outside Africa and was among the earliest known sites of agriculture. It was inhabited by the Canaanites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Carmel
Mount Carmel ( he, הַר הַכַּרְמֶל, Har haKarmel; ar, جبل الكرمل, Jabal al-Karmil), also known in Arabic as Mount Mar Elias ( ar, link=no, جبل مار إلياس, Jabal Mār Ilyās, lit=Mount Saint Elias/Elijah), is a coastal mountain range in northern Israel stretching from the Mediterranean Sea towards the southeast. The range is a UNESCO biosphere reserve. A number of towns are situated there, most notably the city of Haifa, Israel's third largest city, located on the northern and western slopes. Etymology The word ''karmel'' means "garden-land" and is of uncertain origin. It is either a compound of ''kerem'' and ''el'', meaning "vineyard of El (deity), God" or a clipping of ''kar male,'' meaning "full kernel." Martin Jan Mulder suggested a third etymology, that of ''kerem + l'' with the lamed a wiktionary:sufformative, sufformative, but this is considered unlikely as evidence for the existence of a lamed sufformative is weak. Geography and geology T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hadar Hacarmel
Hadar HaCarmel ( he, הדר הכרמל lit. "''Splendor of the Carmel''"; or simply known as the neighbourhood of Hadar he, שכונת הדר, الهدار in Arabic) is a district of Haifa, Israel. Located on the northern slope of Mount Carmel between the upper and lower city overlooking the Port of Haifa and Haifa Bay, it was once the commercial center of Haifa. Etymology The name of the neighborhood is derived from a verse in Isaiah . History Hadar HaCarmel was founded before World War I. Shmuel Pevzner was one of the founders of the neighborhood and head of its development committee in 1922-1927. By 1944, most of Haifa's 66,000 Jewish residents lived in the district. Haifa's city hall, courthouse and government buildings were located in Hadar, but relocated to the lower city (Downtown) in the turn of the 21st century. Hadar has historically been characterized as a Jewish immigrant neighbourhood with many Holocaust survivors settled in the area, and in the early 1990s when m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romema (Haifa)
Romema ( he, רוממה) is a neighborhood in the city of Haifa, Israel. Also known as The Romemot and Ramat Ben-Gurion, it is located east of Ahuza, on the northern slope of Mount Carmel. Today the neighborhood has two sections - New Romema and Old Romema - with a joint population of 8,340. Etymology ''Rushmiya'' comes from a personal name. History Remains from the Persian,Torgë, 2914Haifa, Romema Final Report/ref> Hellenistic, Hasmonean, late Roman, Byzantine, Ayyubid and Crusader era have been found here.Massarwa, 2014Haifa, Romema; Final Report/ref>Shatzman, 1991, p86/ref> Crusader period During the Crusaders period, the settlement was surrounded by a wall,Massarwa, 2015Haifa, Romema; Final Report/ref> and a fortress was built in the centre. It was held by the Frankish settlers from 1099 to 1187.Pringle, 1998, p. 205 It was again held by the Frankish settlers from 1192. In 1283 ''Rushmiya'' was mentioned as part of the domain of the Crusaders, according to the hudna b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haifa Bay
The Bay of Haifa or Haifa Bay ( he, מפרץ חיפה, ''Mifratz Heifa''), formerly Bay of Acre, is a bay along the Mediterranean coast of Northern Israel. Haifa Bay is Israel's only natural harbor on the Mediterranean. ''Haifa Bay'' also refers one of Haifa's nine quarters, covering the overwhelmingly industrial area northeast of Downtown and south of Kiryat Hayim. Geography Fed by the Kishon River, the cities of Haifa and Acre mark its southern and northern capes, while its centre is lined with dunes and the suburban Krayot neighbourhoods. Mount Carmel rises from the southern edge, while the mountains of the Western Galilee run up to the shore at the northern boundary. The Zvulun Valley, a coastal plain, runs 14 km along the coast of the bay between these mountainous boundaries. The Port of Haifa lies along part of its southeastern coastline. History In the 1920s, several kibbutzim were established in the Bat Galim neighborhood on Haifa Bay in the wake of British Manda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Desert Storm
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Patriot Missile
The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary of its kind used by the United States Army and several allied states. It is manufactured by the U.S. defense contractor Raytheon and derives its name from the radar component of the weapon system. The AN/MPQ-53 at the heart of the system is known as the "Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target", or PATRIOT. The Patriot system replaced the Nike Hercules system as the U.S. Army's primary High to Medium Air Defense (HIMAD) system and replaced the MIM-23 Hawk system as the U.S. Army's medium tactical air defense system. In addition to these roles, Patriot has been given the function of the U.S. Army's anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, which is now Patriot's primary mission. The system is expected to stay fielded until at least 2040. Patriot uses an advanced aerial interceptor missile and high-performance radar systems. Patriot was developed at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, which had pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neighborhoods Of Haifa
The Israeli city of Haifa is divided into nine quarters, which are subdivided into subquaters, which are further divided into neighborhoods. This is a list of the neighborhoods of Haifa. Alphabetical list: * Ahuza (Horev) * Bat Galim * Carmel Center: see Merkaz HaCarmel * Carmel Ma'aravi (Western Carmel) * Carmel Tzarfati: see French Carmel * Carmeliya * Denia (Hod HaCarmel) * Ein HaYam * French Carmel (Carmel Tzarfati) * German Colony * HaCarmel: see Denia * Hadar Elyon * Hadar HaCarmel * Halisa * Hod HaCarmel: see Denia * Horev: see Ahuza * Kiryat Eliezer * Kiryat Eliyahu * Kiryat Haim * Kiryat Rabin (Government District) * Kiryat Shmuel * Kababir * Merkaz HaCarmel (Carmel Center) * Neve Paz * Neve Sha'anan * Neve Yosef * Ramat Almogi * Ramat Alon * Ramat Alon South * Ramat Begin (Soroka) * Ramat Chen * Ramat Denia * Ramat Eshkol * Ramat Golda * Ramat HaTishbi * Ramat Haviv * Ramat Remez * Ramot Ben-Gurion: see Romema * Ramot Sapir * Romema (The Rome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
