On the other hand, both Ben-Gurion and Allon knew that it was impossible to allow an Arab Lydda to remain by the international airport, not far from Tel Aviv.
As if he were chanting a prayer, he intones the names of the Palestinian villages that his great-grandfather passed on the journey from Jaffa to Mikveh Yisrael and which were later emptied or suppressed: Abu Kabir, Yazur, Sarafand, Lydda, Gimzu, El-Kubbab, Abu Shusha.
He went first to the Samaritans (Acts 8 4 17), "who received the Holy Spirit"; in Samaria he encountered the magician and faith healer Simon Magus; then he went to Lydda, in the plain of Sharon (Acts 9 32 35), where he healed the paralyzed Aeneas; and then at the Mediterranean coastal town of Joppa (Acts 9 36 43) he effected the cure of Tabitha (Dorcas) in the name of Christ.
New pagan cities were founded in Judaea at Eleutheropolis and Diospolis (formerly Lydda) and at Nicopolis (formerly Emmaus) under one of Severus's successors, Elagabalus (218 222).
In the 4th century, however, there were enough advanced students to warrant academies in Lydda, Caesarea, Sepphoris, and Tiberias (in Palestine), where leading scholars trained disciples for communal service as teachers and judges.
C. 201 - c. 300 Saint George, (flourished 3rd century died, traditionally Lydda, Palestine [now Lod, Israel]; feast day April 23) early Christian martyr who during the Middle Ages became an ideal of martial valour and selflessness.
In Palestine yeshivas were established in Lydda, Caesarea, Sepphoris, and Tiberias.
The British Turkish front in Palestine in the summer of 1918 ran from the Jordan River westward north of Jericho and Lydda to the Mediterranean just north of Jaffa.
Jordan included Galilee and Acre (modern ʿAkko, Israel) and extended east to the desert; Palestine, with its capital first at Lydda (modern Lod, Israel) and later at Ramla (after 716), covered the region south of the Plain of Esdraelon.
George's slaying of the dragon may be a Christian version of the legend of Perseus, who was said to have rescued Andromeda from a sea monster near Lydda.
Allon asked: 'What shall we do with the Arabs?' Ben-Gurion made a dismissive, energetic gesture with his hand and said: 'Expel them.' At 1330 hours, 12 July, before the shooting had completely died down in Lydda, Operation Dani headquarters issued the following order to Yiftah brigade headquarters: '1.
