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11 unusual facts about Beersheba


Alon De Loco

Alon Cohen (in Hebrew אלון כהן) better known by his stage name Alon de Loco (in Hebrew אלון דה לוקו) (born in Beersheba, Israel on 15 November 1974) is a leading Israeli hip hop artist with styles in R&B, dancehall and reggaeton.

Amos Yarkoni

Streets in several towns are named for him (including in Beer Sheva and Haifa).

Asia Korps

In April, the 300th Flying Detachment ("Pasha") was stationed in Beersheba with 14 Rumpler C.I aircraft.

Following Ottoman defeats in the Battle of Beersheba and Third Battle of Gaza in late October, the Yildirim Army Group was diverted to prevent further collapse in Palestine.

David Azrieli

Azrieli built a number of Israeli commercial centres including the Jerusalem Shopping Mall in Malcha, Jerusalem, Kanion ha-Negev in Beersheba and the eponymous Azrieli Center in Tel Aviv, the largest real estate project in Israel, including three skyscrapers in the heart of Tel Aviv, which has become an architectural landmark at the core of Israel's business activities.

Lehavim-Rahat Railway Station

Lehavim Rahat Railway Station is a station on the Israel Railways lines between Tel Aviv (and points north) and Beersheba, located near Lehavim Junction.

Night bus lines in Israel

The project started in the three biggest cities - Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, and was later expanded to other cities - including Netanya, Herzliya, Rishon LeZion and Beersheba.

P. David Hornik

David Hornik (born 1954) is a freelance writer and translator living in Be'er Sheva, Israel, and is a columnist for FrontPageMag.com and PJ Media.

Ramla Railway Station

As part of the double-tracking and upgrading project of the Lod-Beersheba main line, the size of the station was doubled in 2012.

S. F. Newcombe

In 1913 and the early part of 1914, following short spells at the War Office, he carried out a survey across the Sinai Peninsula to Beersheba, under the auspices of the Palestine Exploration Fund.

Tibby Cotter

Albert "Tibby" Cotter (born 3 December 1883 in Sydney, died 31 October 1917 in Beersheba) was an Australian cricketer who played in 21 Tests between 1904 and 1912.


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Abraham Path

Negev--- Day 1 of walking: Beersheba City to Lakiya; Day 2: Lakiya to Meitar; Day 3: Meitar to Har Amasa; Day 4: Har Amasa to Tel Arad National Park; Day 5: Tel Arad National Park to Arad; Day 6: Arad to Kfar haNokdim; Day 7: Kfar haNokdim to Masada.

Ashkelon–Beersheba railway

When completed, the railway is expected to serve a new intercity line between Beersheba and Tel Aviv through the communities of the northern Negev, as well as stopping in existing railway stations in Ashkelon, Ashdod, Yavne, and Rishon LeZion.

Battle of Gibeah

So all the Children of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, as well as from the land of Gilead, and the congregation gathered together as one man before the Lord at Mizpah.

Be'er Sheva Turkish Railway Station

The rest of the planned Egyptian branch was never completed, although Meissner managed to continue the line from Beersheba further south to Kusseima in the Sinai Peninsula,.

Fosphenytoin

In April 2003, Applebaum and colleagues at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba reported that even though anticonvulsants are often very effective in mania, and acute mania requires rapid treatment, fosphenytoin had no antimanic effect even 60 minutes after administration of doses used in status epilepticus.

Shimon Solomon

Between 2005 and 2007 he worked in the Israeli embassy in Addis Ababa, before becoming director of an immigrant absorption centre in Beersheba.

Surafend affair

In 2009, journalist Paul Daley was researching a book, Beersheba, and discovered an audio recording in the archives of the Australian War Memorial, which appeared to indicate that Australian soldiers were more involved than had been previously thought.