Sentence examples for former settlement from inspiring English sources

Tel Ḥay, also spelled Tel Ḥai, orTel Chai, former settlement, now a national memorial, in Upper Galilee, northern Israel, near the Lebanese border.

David Ratner, a reporter for Israel's Haaretz newspaper, describes such an arrangement in Homesh, a former settlement in the northern West Bank.

After he failed to locate any walking through the area, Hurley enlisted a volunteer pilot to fly him over Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, and he took aerial photographs of the former settlement.

But Adams chose a former settlement that adjoins the Buried, and it dated to the First Intermediate Period, which spanned a century, from around 2160 B.C. to 2055 B.C.

A recent survey found almost all of a former settlement of the Thule culture, ancestors of today's Inuit, had been disturbed and stripped of items such as harpoon tips and figurines carved from walrus ivory.

All public school streams are subject to curricular standards mandated by the Minister of Education, a position currently held by Naftali Bennett, a former settlement leader and Army commando who is the head of the far-right Jewish Home Party.

Some modern residential areas are on the sites of several former settlements.

Amjad al-Agha is an agricultural engineer who oversees a mushroom farm in the "liberated lands" – the former settlements of Gush Qatif in southern Gaza.

And when Israel painfully pulls its people out of settlements and turns them over to the Palestinians, as most recently witnessed in Gaza, the former settlements are used as launching pads for rocket attacks on Israel.

PAGE A12 Israel Withdraws From Gaza After Israeli troops began an overnight evacuation of the Gaza Strip, Palestinians rushed into the former settlements and shot off fireworks in celebration.

Many of these former settlements are in much better condition than Pripyat and offer a unique peek into Soviet rural life.