gulf of Akaba

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• Gulf of Akaba — noun a northeastern arm of the Red Sea; between the Sinai Peninsula (Egypt) and Saudi Arabia • Syn: ↑Gulf of Aqaba • Instance Hypernyms: ↑gulf • Part Holonyms: ↑Red Sea …   Useful english dictionary

• Gulf of Aqaba — noun a northeastern arm of the Red Sea; between the Sinai Peninsula (Egypt) and Saudi Arabia • Syn: ↑Gulf of Akaba • Instance Hypernyms: ↑gulf • Part Holonyms: ↑Red Sea …   Useful english dictionary

• AKABA — AKABA, Jordanian port on the northeastern corner of the Gulf of Eilat. Due to freshwater wells in the vicinity, it has constituted, since antiquity, an oasis in an otherwise hot desert devoid of life. Under Roman rule it was called Aelana, and an …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Akaba — noun Jordan s port; located in southwestern Jordan on the Gulf of Aqaba • Syn: ↑Al Aqabah, ↑Aqaba • Instance Hypernyms: ↑city, ↑metropolis, ↑urban center • Part Holonyms: ↑Jordan, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Dayan, Moshe — (1915–81)    Israel general and political leader. For the outside world, Dayan’s fixed image was that of the famous general with the black eye patch, hero of the Sinai Campaign and the Six Day War. To the Israelis he stood for much more the sabra …   Who’s Who in Jewish History after the period of the Old Testament

• Arabia — • The cradle of Islam and, in all probability, the primitive home of the Semitic race Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Arabia     Arabia      …   Catholic encyclopedia

• UNITED NATIONS (UN) — UNITED NATIONS (UN), a worldwide organization of states established in 1945, in the wake of World War II, with a view, primarily, to maintain international peace and security and also bring about cooperation among nations in the economic, social …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Ben-Gurion (Green), David — (1886–1973)    First prime minister of Israel. In October 1906 a short, stocky young man, with a jutting jaw, set sail on a small boat through the Black Sea. David Green was twenty years old and fired with zeal to redeem the soil of the Jewish… …   Who’s Who in Jewish History after the period of the Old Testament

• SIX-DAY WAR — SIX DAY WAR, the war between Israel and egypt , jordan , syria , and iraq that lasted from June 5 to June 10, 1967, and in the course of which Israel routed the threatening Arab armies and occupied the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank (Judea and… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Red Sea — noun a long arm of the Indian Ocean between northeast Africa and Arabia; linked to the Mediterranean at the north end by the Suez Canal • Instance Hypernyms: ↑sea • Part Holonyms: ↑Indian Ocean • Part Meronyms: ↑Gulf of Aqaba, ↑Gulf of Akaba, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary