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  • The synagogue was discovered in area called Migdal, historically an important settlement along the Sea of Galilee, which researchers say was mentioned in ancient Jewish texts as playing a prominent role during what is known as the Great Revolt, when Jews attempted to rebel against Roman rule.

    dailyindia.com News Feed 2009

  • My partner Rebecca Migdal went as the Queen Of The Sea, but I was dressed as a condominium building (that is, I was marching inside a decorated cardboard box).

    Shoot me now. Roger Sutton 2009

  • Migdal said the goal should be formal campus recognition, which would help build numbers.

    Colleges Reconsider ROTC After DADT Repeal AP 2010

  • Migdal said the goal should be formal campus recognition, which would help build numbers.

    Colleges Reconsider ROTC After DADT Repeal AP 2010

  • Migdal said the goal should be formal campus recognition, which would help build numbers.

    Colleges Reconsider ROTC After DADT Repeal AP 2010

  • Eva began to visit Migdal every spring, always inviting guests to join her, including George Bernard Shaw (about whose visit she had few positive remarks to make), Orde Wingate, Chaim Arlosoroff and David Ben-Gurion.

    Mond Isaacs, Eva Violet, Second Marchioness of Reading. 2009

  • As the first ploy of the Zwi Migdal had failed, they lured her with a marriage proposal.

    Raquel Liberman. 2009

  • Josephus, the first-century Jewish historian who described his people's revolt against the Romans in A.D. 67, wrote that the Jews of Migdal, just south of where the boat was found, raided a Roman camp and quickly retreated, only to be massacred in the city soon after.

    Finding The Real Ship Of Zion? 2008

  • And the "basic tenet of Palestinism," say Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal in their definitive and sympathetic history of the Palestinians, continues to be the "right of return" for those 700,000 Palestinians displaced from Israeli territory in 1948 and their descendants (a population that may now number as many as five million) — which if exercised would mean the end of a Jewish majority in Israel.

    Will Israel Live to 100? 2005

  • And the "basic tenet of Palestinism," say Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal in their definitive and sympathetic history of the Palestinians, continues to be the "right of return" for those 700,000 Palestinians displaced from Israeli territory in 1948 and their descendants (a population that may now number as many as five million) — which if exercised would mean the end of a Jewish majority in Israel.

    Will Israel Live to 100? 2005

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