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3 unusual facts about Jordanian


15th Special Forces Division

Consistent reporting in mid-February 2012 showed that all three regiments of the 15th Special Forces Division had left their bases near the Jordanian border to join the fight in Homs.

Abdullah Al-Zubi

Abdullah Al-Zubi (born October 8, 1989) is a Jordanian football player currently playing as a goalkeeper for Al-Ramtha SC and the Jordan national football team.

Jordan Green Building Council

Jordan Green Building Council (Arabic: المجلس الأردني للأبنية الخضراء) is a Jordanian member-based organization established in 2009.


1965 in Israel

31 May - Jordanian Legionnaires fired on the neighborhood of Musrara in Jerusalem, killing two civilians and wounding four.

Al-Khasawneh

Fayez Essa Khasawneh (Former Minister of Agriculture / Former President of Yarmouk University / Former Chairman, Board of Trustees Of The German Jordanian University) / Former President and Chairman of the Board, Aqaba Region Authority / Former Secretary General Of The Arab Thought Forum / Chairman, Board of Trustees at Yarmouk University

Amer Khammash

Amongst his achievements, General Khammash was the first recognized Jordanian pilot and received his pilot training in Middle Wallop in the United Kingdom in 1949, and received his wings in 1950 from the Late Founder of Jordan, King Abdullah I.

Amongst his achievements, General Khammash was the first recognized Jordanian pilot and received his pilot training in Middle Wallop in the United Kingdom in 1949, and received his wings in 1950 from the Late Founder of Jordan, King Abdullah I.

Atarot

The Jordanian forces looted and burned the village, turning the land into an extension of Kalandia Airport.

Barry Schiff

In 1995 and with the direct approval of Jordanian King Hussein and Israeli Prime Minister, Itzhak Rabin, Schiff contributed to the Middle East peace process by leading a formation of 35 airplanes carrying 135 Americans, Israelis, and Jordanians from Jerusalem to Amman.

Beit Safafa

The southern part was in the Jordanian-occupied West Bank, while the northern part, originally in no man's land, was transferred to Israel with the signing of 1949 armistice agreement, and was later annexed to Jerusalem by Israel.

Bismack Biyombo

Biyombo, who was born in Lubumbashi, was discovered by the former Jordanian and Angolan and current Portuguese national team head coach, Mário Palma, at the age of 16 at a youth tournament in Yemen.

Bomb plot against the Thomas Jefferson Cultural Center

Later investigation revealed that they had cased the library a week earlier, and had been met by a suspicious security guard, but DSS agent Brenden O'Hanlen instructed security to let them pass after photocopying their Jordanian passports and Palestinian identity cards.

Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz

During the Six-Day War, when the yeshiva was within range of Jordanian artillery fire, Rabbi Shmuelevitz sent some of the manuscripts to America with his uncle, Rabbi Avraham Yoffen, with specific instructions that he carry them by hand and not put them in his luggage, because, "Dos iz meyn gantze leben (This is my whole life)."

Energy in Jordan

A series of projects is set to make available 37,000 tonnes of shale oil in the central region of Attarat by 2015, 15,000 tonnes in Karak by 2017, and develop thousands of tonnes in potential shale reserves along the Jordanian-Iraqi border.

Faris Glubb

Born in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine as Godfrey Peter Manley Glubb, he was the son of the noted British officer Sir John Bagot Glubb KCB CMG DSO OBE MC, who, as the chief military advisor to the Jordanian military, became known as Glubb Pasha, and his wife, Muriel Rosemary Forbes.

Frederic Bennett

He was a member of the Anglo-Polish Society, the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the Estonian Association, the Anglo-Jordanian Society, the Pakistan Society, and was a Vice-President of the European-Atlantic Group.

Hindawi affair

Patrick Seale writes that the Hindawi family (from the Jordanian village of Baqura) had a history of connection to Mossad.

Ina'am Al-Mufti

Qaddoura established the Ministry of Social Development, Noor Al-Hussein Foundation, Women Issues Organization, Jubilee School of Amman, Children's Trust, Union of Jordanian Women, and National Union for Jordanian Business Women.

Island of Peace massacre

The perpetrator killed seven schoolgirls and wounded five others and a teacher before his rifle jammed and the Jordanian soldiers seized him.

John Bagot Glubb

The couple had a son, Godfrey (named after the Crusader King Godfrey of Bouillon) born in Jerusalem in 1939, and adopted a Bedouin girl in 1944 and another daughter and son, his daughter from Palestinian refugees and son (named before Atalla) from Jordanian Bedouins in 1947.

Jordanian Southern Command

The Jordanian Southern Command (Arabic:المنطقة العسكرية الجنوبية) is the Jordanian Armed Forces regional command responsible for a large area in the Kingdom and defending 4 cities (Aqaba, Ma'an, Tafilah, Al Karak).

Khamees

Mohammad Khamees (born 1981), Jordanian footballer who is a defender for Al-Faisaly

King David Hotel

At the end of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the hotel found itself overlooking "no-man’s land" on the armistice line that divided Jerusalem into Israeli and Jordanian territory.

King Deco

Jordanian-born Dana Salah began DJing, producing and songwriting shortly after moving to the United States to enroll in Duke University.

Klaus Rainer Röhl

Finally journalist Stefan Aust, a long-time friend of Röhl abducted the children after Peter Homan misinformed him that Ulrike was about to send children to a Jordanian boarding house where other children of refugees used to live.

Mahmoud Kharabsheh

While in his position of Head of House Legal Committee in early 2000, Kharabsheh accused Issams al-Rawabdeh, the son of Jordanian Prime Minister Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh, of corruption.

Mordechai Hod

Hod's strike, leaving only 12 planes to defend Israel, and aided with intelligence from Mossad and Aman, succeeded in destroying most of the Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian Air Forces.

Munqeth Mehyar

As Jordanian Director, Mehyar leads FoEME activities concerning the Jordan River, the Dead Sea and the Good Water Neighbors Project.

Palestinian Civil War

The Black September in Jordan - a Palestinian-Jordanian civil war in 1970-1971.

Princess Iman

Princess Iman bint Al Hussein (born 1983), Jordanian royal, daughter of King Hussein and Queen Noor

Red Sea–Dead Sea Canal

The agreement was signed on the Dead Sea by Jordanian Water Minister Raed Abu Soud, Israeli Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Palestinian Planning Minister Ghassan al-Khatib.

Samer Raimouny

Born in Damascus to philanthropic Jordanian Noblesse oblige, his father, an industrialist and a now retired-Senator for Jerash Governorate in northern Jordan, his mother is an English Literature teacher from the city of as-Salt.

Samu Incident

The 48th Infantry Battalion of the Jordanian Army, commanded by Major Asad Ghanma, encountered the Israeli forces north-west of Samu.

West Jerusalem

The only eastern area of the city that remained in Israeli hands throughout the 19 years of Jordanian rule was Mount Scopus, where the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is located, which formed an enclave during that period and therefore is not considered part of East Jerusalem.

Wound Medal

In addition, other countries have or have had military decorations for wounded servicemembers under other names, such as the United States Purple Heart, the German Wound Badge of World War I and World War II, the Japanese Wound Badges (Shoigunjinsho) and the Jordanian Badge for the War Wounded.

Yousef Ghawanmeh

Yousef Darwish Ghawanmeh, (born 1935 in Irbid), is a prominent Jordanian historian, anthropologist, professor and author.


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