Sentence examples for secular settlement from inspiring English sources

So the estate agent suggests Givat Ze'ev, a secular settlement a 10-minute drive north-east of Jerusalem.

From the Byzantine period onward, fortification became an essential factor for both monastic and secular settlement, emphasizing the importance of the mountain regions and of "perched" sites above lowland.

No one has done more to bring the toxic certainties of religious belief back into politics and public culture and this has had nothing but a destructive influence on our hard-won secular settlement.

Since then, religious communities in the northern Jordan Valley have increased by 25 families, but secular settlements like this one in the central valley have shrunk by 55 families, or 8percentt, she said.

Instead of Uri Ariel, a settler from Kfar Adumim in the West Bank, as housing minister, settlers might have a secular anti-settlement Labour politician.Even the normally unruly far-right rabbis, who consider themselves the spiritual leaders of Jewish Home, have proved uncharacteristically pragmatic and have tempered their demands for Mr Bennett to leave government.

When is the last time you heard a good rational, secular argument supporting settlement expansion in the West Bank?

The ultra-Orthodox had been stung by a rash of Supreme Court decisions, including rulings that exemption from military service for students in yeshivot (religious seminaries) was no longer legally valid, while shopping on the Sabbath in the secular kibbutz communal settlements was.

To win a Knesset majority, Netanyahu's party has always needed what has come to be called the Israeli center, the quarter of the Jewish population that's changed in composition over the years yet remained curiously stable in outlook: dubious about the settlements, secular in theory, traditional in practice, and apprehensive that Palestinians can never be trusted.

As a prelude to future archaeological research, this paper presents a detailed synthesis of early ethnohistorical and ethnographic information on settlement patterns, secular and ceremonial site types, and social interactions of the Kulkalgal people who continue to inhabit the small, drought-prone reef islands of central Torres Strait, northeast Australia.

That percentage can be split into two camps: there is the rapidly expanding, low-income, ultra-Orthodox community, which, priced out of Jerusalem, has migrated to nearby settlements such as Modin Illit and Beitar Illit; then there are secular or mixed community settlements, such as Almon.

It happened because the American settlement established a secular rule of law, a territorial jurisdiction and a common language in a place that the people were claiming as their home.