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unusual facts about Tekoa, Gush Etzion



Froman-Amayreh Agreement

In February 2008, Rabbi Menachem Froman, chief rabbi of Tekoa in the West Bank, and Khaled Amayreh, a journalist close to Hamas, reached an agreement for an Israeli-Hamas ceasefire in the Gaza Strip that would put an immediate end to all Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians or soldiers, facilitate the release of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, and end the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip.

Gush Etzion

Two years later, during the 1929 Palestine riots and recurring hostilities, Migdal Eder was attacked and destroyed.

However, this trend was criticized by the novelist Haim Be'er, who called the bloc's settlement movements a "fervent cult" and compared them to the Canaanites.

Jerusalem Malha Railway Station

Since February 5, 2006, intercity bus routes to Gush Etzion and the Hebron area stop at Jerusalem Malha Train Station on their way from the Jerusalem Central Bus Station to their destination via Begin Boulevard.

Tekoa

Tuqu', also known as Tekoa or Teqoa, a Palestinian town in the West Bank.

Tekoa Mountain, a ridge in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, United States

Tekoa, Gush Etzion

In May 2001, two Israeli boys from Tekoa, Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran, were murdered.

The modern settlement was established in 1975 as a Nahal outpost.

Yanun

On October 30, 2002, together with David Shulman, a group that included the distinguished Israeli writers Amos Oz, Meir Shalev, A. B. Yehoshua, David Grossman, the daughter of Haim Gouri, with Rabbi Menachem Froman, co-founder of Gush Emunim and a settler in Tekoa, Ian Buruma and an assortment of Israeli television camera crews and journalists visited Yanun to assist the returned villagers with their harvest and ward off settlers.


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