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NARBATA — NARBATA, Jewish district E. of Caesarea, which perhaps inherited the name of Arubboth in the third district of Solomon (I Kings 4:10); it appears in the Book of Maccabees (I Macc. 5:23) as Arbatta, a city from which Simeon evacuated Jews at the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
MA'ANIT — (Heb. מַעֲנִית; Furrow ), kibbutz in central Israel, E. of Pardes Ḥannah, affiliated with Kibbutz Arẓi Ha Shomer ha Ẓa ir. It was founded in 1942 by pioneers from Czechoslovakia. In the Israel war of independence (1948), the village, lying close… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ARBATTA — ARBATTA, city mentioned in I Kings 4:10 as Arubboth and in Second Temple sources as Arbatta. On the outbreak of the Hasmonean uprising, in 168 B.C.E., Galilean Jews were threatened by the local gentile population. Hence, Simeon, brother of Judah… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
HAR HA-MELEKH — (Heb. הַר הַמֶּלֶךְ; king s mountain ; Aramaic Tor Malka), a hilly district in Judah. It should probably be identified with the toparchy of Orine (Latin for the hilly one, Pliny, Natural History, 5, 14:70), i.e., the district of Jerusalem in… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
