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Arava (other)
Arava or Aravah is the Hebrew name of a section of the Great Rift Valley between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba/Eilat in Israel and Jordan. Its Arabic name is Arabah. Arava may also refer to: Places *Arava, Estonia, a village in Anija Parish, Harju County, Estonia *Arava(h) / Araba(h) Valley-related: **Arava Stream, an intermittent stream **Sea of Arava, the Dead Sea Other uses *Arava Valley-related: **Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, an Israeli study programme **Arava Power Company, an Israeli solar energy company **Arava spider, a huntsman spider found in the southern Arava Valley of Israel and Jordan **IAI Arava, a plane manufactured by Israel Aircraft Industries *Arava, a brand name for the antirheumatic drug leflunomide * Arava Shahaf (born 1990), Israeli female footballer *Aravah (Sukkot), a willow branch, one of the four species used on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot See also * Arraba (other) *Araba (other) Araba may refer to: Places and ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aravah
The Arabah/Araba () or Aravah/Arava () is a loosely defined geographic area in the Negev Desert, south of the Dead Sea drainage basin, basin, which forms part of the border between Israel to the west and Jordan to the east. The old meaning, which was in use up to around the early 20th century, covered almost the entire length of what today is called the Jordan Rift Valley, running in a north–south orientation between the southern end of the Sea of Galilee and the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba of the Red Sea at Aqaba–Eilat. This included the Jordan Valley (Middle East), Jordan River Valley between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea, the Dead Sea itself, and what today is commonly called the Arava Valley. The contemporary use of the term is restricted to this southern section alone. Geography The Arabah is in length, from the Gulf of Aqaba to the southern shore of the Dead Sea. Topographically, the region is divided into three sections. From the Gulf of Aqaba northwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arava, Estonia
Arava () is a village in Anija Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru .... (retrieved 27 July 2021) It had a population of 40 (as of 1 January 2010). References Villages in Harju County Kreis Harrien {{Harju-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arava Stream
The Arava Stream (, Nahal HaArava) is an intermittent stream (occasionally flowing in the rainy, winter season) that flows from the approximate mid-point of the Arava desert in Israel's Southern District northward. It is 89 km long, and in many parts, serves as the actual border between Israel and Jordan. The stream originates on the crest of the Notza Ridge, which forms the watershed divide between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea, and from which all streams in the Arava desert flow either north to the Dead Sea or south to the Red Sea. The stream's prominent tributaries include: Nahal Paran, Nahal Barak, Nahal Tzin, Nahal Tzafit, and Nahal Nekorot. In addition to Israel and Jordan, parts of its drainage basin are in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. Northern flow The stream flows into the area of evaporation ponds in what used to be the southernmost end of the Dead Sea and divides these ponds into the Israel area (managed by the Dead Sea Works) and the Jordan area. After pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Of Arava
The Dead Sea (; or ; ), also known by other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east, the Israeli-occupied West Bank to the west and Israel to the southwest. It lies in the endorheic basin of the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River. As of 2025, the lake's surface is below sea level, making its shores the lowest land-based elevation on Earth. It is deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. With a salinity of 342 g/kg, or 34.2% (in 2011), it is one of the world's saltiest bodies of water, 9.6 times as salty as the ocean—and has a density of 1.24 kg/litre, which makes swimming similar to floating. This salinity makes for a harsh environment in which plants and animals cannot flourish, hence its name. The Dead Sea's main, northern basin is long and wide at its widest point. The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years. It was one of the world's first hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arava Institute For Environmental Studies
Arava or Aravah is the Hebrew name of a section of the Great Rift Valley between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba/Eilat in Israel and Jordan. Its Arabic name is Arabah. Arava may also refer to: Places *Arava, Estonia, a village in Anija Parish, Harju County, Estonia *Arava(h) / Araba(h) Valley-related: **Arava Stream, an intermittent stream **Sea of Arava, the Dead Sea Other uses *Arava Valley-related: **Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, an Israeli study programme **Arava Power Company, an Israeli solar energy company **Arava spider, a huntsman spider found in the southern Arava Valley of Israel and Jordan **IAI Arava, a plane manufactured by Israel Aircraft Industries *Arava, a brand name for the antirheumatic drug leflunomide *Arava Shahaf (born 1990), Israeli female footballer *Aravah (Sukkot), a willow branch, one of the four species used on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot See also *Arraba (other) *Araba (other) {{disambiguation, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arava Power Company
Arava Power Company (APC) Arava Power is a utility-scale renewables Developer-IPP that pioneered Israeli utility-scale PV market. The company founded in 2006 on Ketura in the Arava Valley. On June 5, 2011, APC inaugurated Israel's first medium-sized solar field, Ketura Sun. The field stretches over 80 dunams (8 hectares or 20 acres) of land and has an installed power of 4.95MW. As Arava Power installs solar fields only on land zoned solely for agricultural or industrial use. In the Ketura Sun project, photovoltaic (PV) solar panel from Suntech company were used, in collaboration with Siemens Israel. Arava's mission is to supply Israel with 10% of its energy needs through clean, renewable solar energy. History Arava Power Company began as a partnership with Kibbutz Ketura. Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, was an inspiring figure for the vision of the company. In 1956, Ben Gurion said: "The largest and most impressive source of energy in our world and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arava Spider
''Cerbalus aravaensis'' is a huntsman spider found in the southern Arava Valley of Israel and Jordan. The species was first described by Gershom Levy of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2007, though news agencies later reported it in 2010 as a new discovery (with a slightly different spelling) by a team of biologists from the University of Haifa. The spider has a leg-span of , making it the largest member of the family Sparassidae in the Middle East. Males have a body length of , while females' body length is . Habitat ''Cerbalus aravaensis'' lives in sand dunes, and partly stable sands at the edge of salt-marshes. It is nocturnal and is most-active in the hotter summer months. It constructs underground dens with hinged, trap-door-like operculum made of sand and silk, in order to disguise the entrance from predators. Conservation The Sands of Samar, the last remaining sand dunes in the southern Arava region of Israel and home to ''Cerbalus aravaensis'', are disappeari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IAI Arava
The Israeli Aircraft Industries Arava (, "Willow" or "Steppe" or "Desert", named after the Aravah of the Jordan Rift Valley) is a light STOL utility transport aircraft developed and produced by Israeli aerospace company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). It is IAI's first indigenously developed aircraft design to enter production. The Arava had been developed during the 1960s, during which time it was intended to be adopted in large numbers by international customers in both the military and civil markets. Its design draws some influence from the France, French Nord Noratlas transport plane. Both the Israeli government and IAI's management were enthusiastic to develop the Arava, seeing it as a means of advancing the country's industrial capabilities as well as a source of revenue. On 27 November 1969, the first prototype performed its maiden flight; it would be destroyed on 19 November 1970 after a wing strut failed mid-flight due to excessive Aeroelasticity#Flutter, flutter. Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leflunomide
Leflunomide, sold under the brand name Arava among others, is an immunosuppressive disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD), used in active moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis. It is a pyrimidine synthesis inhibitor that works by inhibiting dihydroorotate dehydrogenase. Medical use Rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis are the only indications that have received regulatory approval. Arava was developed by Sanofi Aventis and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1998. Clinical studies regarding the following diseases have been conducted: There have been reports on potential re-purposing of leflunomide for treatment of solid tumors with tumor suppressor, PTEN, loss. In PTEN negative tumors, leflunomide causes synthetic lethality potentially due to increased demand on pyrimidines in these faster growing cells. * Polyoma BK virus Diabetic nephropathy, nephropathy * Kimura's disease * Systemic lupus erythematosus * Felty's sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arava Shahaf
Arava Shahaf (or Schahaf, ; born 28 April 1990) is an Israeli football forward, currently playing in the Israeli First League for F.C. Ramat HaSharon (on loan). Shahaf has been a member of the Israeli national team since 2013, when she made her debut against Malta. Club career Born in Be'er Sheva, Shahaf joined Maccabi Be'er Sheva at the age of 15, making her debut on 12 December 2006 against ASA Tel Aviv University. She played with the club until the beginning of the 2013–14 season, when she was loaned to F.C. Ramat HaSharon, to which she was loaned ever since. On 17 November 2015, in a match against her old club, Shahaf scored her 100th league goal. Shahaf was also loaned for a brief period to ASA Tel Aviv University and played with the club in the 2014–15 Champions League qualifying round, getting sent off against Atlético Ouriense. International career Shahf made her international debut with the Israel women's national football team at the age of 23, in a mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aravah (Sukkot)
Aravah (, pl. aravot - ) is a leafy branch of the willow tree. It is one of the Four Species ( - ) used in a special waving ceremony during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The other species are the '' lulav'' ( palm frond), '' hadass'' ( myrtle), and '' etrog'' ( citron). The ''aravah'' is also used for a separate ceremony on Hoshanah Rabbah, the last day of Sukkot, when five branches are beaten against the ground to the accompaniment of special verses. The ''aravah'' tree typically grows by the side of a river, although in Israel it grows wild in many people's backyards. The branches grow long and are lined with long, narrow leaves. Since this tree requires much water to grow, the picked branches dry out within two or three days. In order to keep them fresh as long as possible for the mitzvah of the Four Species, they are kept in the refrigerator until use, or wrapped in a moist towel. On each of the seven days of Sukkot (excluding Shabbat), two ''aravah'' branches are boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arraba (other)
Arraba () can refer to the following: *Arraba, Israel *Arraba, Jenin Other *Arabah See also *Araba (other) Araba may refer to: Places and jurisdictions * the Ancient Arab Kingdom of Hatra, a Roman-Parthian buffer state in modern Iraq * Basque name of Álava, a province and medieval bishopric (now Latin titular see) in the autonomous Basque Country, n ... * Arriba (other) {{place name disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
