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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Israel
  • abbreviation Israeli

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  • Tribes (Ewald, Hist. of Isr.), which perhaps originated in a few verses of II Esdras, it has become famous, because it has coincided with a great historical fact.

    Timaeus 2006

  • Like the tale of Troy, or the legend of the Ten Tribes (Ewald, Hist. of Isr.), which perhaps originated in a few verses of II Esdras, it has become famous, because it has coincided with a great historical fact.

    Timaeus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • JERUSALEM, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Israeli leaders are leaning towards declaring a unilateral halt to their three-week-old Gaza war instead of agreeing a formal, Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with Hamas, Isr. […]

    The Seminal :: Independent Media And Politics 2009

  • Isr. _ i. 643) and by Smend (_Lehrbuch der A.T. Religionsgeschichte_, 1893), who denied that any part of xxx, xxxi was from Jeremiah, on grounds both of alleged inconsistencies with

    Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 George Adam Smith 1899

  • 24D: Mount Carmel's locale: Abbr. (Isr.) - My parents live in the non-Israeli Carmel (- by-the-sea).

    Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle 2008

  • 23A: Big exporter of diamonds: Abbr. (Isr.) - those SABRAs love their diamonds.

    Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle 2008

  • 50A: Land that's around 16\% Muslim: Abbr. (Isr.) -

    Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle 2008

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