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  • proper noun A city in Israel

Etymologies

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From Hebrew

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Examples

  • The town was formerly called Lod, and was founded by Samad of the tribe of Benjamin (I Par., viii, 12).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • With no emotions, ten days later, while Ben-Gurion was on a tour of the Galilee, he describes Palestinian exodus in his diary as follows: Report Abuse Yitzhak Rabin wrote in his diary soon after Lydda's and Ramla's occupation on 10th-11th of July 1948: After attacking Lydda later called Lod and then Ramla, ....

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Thus cities which cry out for a transfusion of new residents - such as Lod - worry that planned haredi neighborhoods will only make these already poor municipalities much poorer and inflict upon them oversized families who consume services but don't contribute sufficiently in revenue.

    JPost Headlines 2010

  • Thus cities which cry out for a transfusion of new residents - such as Lod - worry that planned haredi neighborhoods will only make these already poor municipalities much poorer and inflict upon them oversized families who consume services but don't contribute sufficiently in revenue.

    JPost Headlines 2010

  • Ajami's Arab residents say they are being encouraged to move to inland Israeli cities, such as Lod, also known as Lydda, or Ramla, where there are large Arab populations and cheap housing.

    Reuters: Top News 2010

  • Thus cities which cry out for a transfusion of new residents - such as Lod - worry that planned haredi neighborhoods will only make these already poor municipalities much poorer and inflict upon them oversized families who consume services but don't contribute sufficiently in revenue.

    JPost Headlines 2010

  • He was killed in 1972 by a car bomb in Beirut, in what was believed to be an Israeli reprisal for the killings of 26 people by three Japanese terrorists linked to the PFLP at Ben Guroin then Lod airport in 1972.

    Leon T. Hadar: Return to Haifa: Whose Narrative Is It Anyway? Leon T. Hadar 2011

  • He was killed in 1972 by a car bomb in Beirut, in what was believed to be an Israeli reprisal for the killings of 26 people by three Japanese terrorists linked to the PFLP at Ben Guroin then Lod airport in 1972.

    Leon T. Hadar: Return to Haifa: Whose Narrative Is It Anyway? Leon T. Hadar 2011

  • Visiting Lod, a mixed city of Jews and Palestinian Arabs just southeast of Tel Aviv, we walked through some of the city's poor Palestinian meighnorhoods.

    Diane Winston: Packaging The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Diane Winston 2011

  • For a while Palestinians were able to travel by plane from Lod Airport and even use the Haifa port to travel by ship.

    Daoud Kuttab: My $10,000 Mideast Travel Extraveganza Daoud Kuttab 2011

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