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Beersheba
[beer-shee-buh, beer-shuh-, be
noun
a city in Israel, near the N limit of the Negev desert: the southernmost city of ancient Palestine.
Beersheba
/ ɪəˈʃːə /
noun
a town in S Israel: commercial centre of the Negev. In biblical times it marked the southern limit of Palestine. Pop: 183 000 (2003 est)
Example Sentences
Our home, along with hundreds of thousands of acres of our land in Beersheba and elsewhere, was taken and handed over to the Israeli state.
They also preserve the legacy of my grandfather, a man who turned the desert into gardens, farms and industry around Beersheba in the early 20th century.
My grandfather was a prominent businessman in Beersheba, a thriving Palestinian city where Muslims, Christians and Jews once lived together in peace.
Most of his treatment, he said, took place at a field hospital at Sde Teiman barracks, an IDF base near Beersheba in southern Israel.
A policewoman has been killed and 10 others injured in a shooting in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, local authorities said.
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