- Tel Hai
Tel Hai ( _he. תל חי, meaning "Hill of Life" in Hebrew; Talha in
Arabic ) is the modern name of a settlement in northern Israel, the site of an early battle in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and of a noted monument and tourist attraction.Historical Outline
Tel Hai was intermittently inhabited since 1905 and permanently settled as a border outpost in 1918 following the defeat of the
Ottoman Empire . The area was subsequently subject to intermittent border adjustments among the British and the French. In 1919, the British relinquished the northern section of theupper Galilee containing Tel Hai,Metula ,Hamrah , andKfar Giladi to the French jurisdiction.In 1921, Tel Hai was resettled and in 1926 was absorbed into the
kibbutz Kfar Giladi .A
national monument in UpperGalilee ,Israel commemorates the deaths of eight Jews, six men and two women, among them the one-armed, Russian-Jewish independence fighterJoseph Trumpeldor , in an engagement on1 March , 1920, withBedouin who had been attacking settlements in the area.Wasserstein, 1991, p. 62;"These attacks were not directed specifically or mainly against Jews" citing Zionist report, Galilee,13 May , 1920 CZA L4/276 III.] The resolute actions of Trumpeldor and his colleagues against a much larger attacking force inspired the Jews of Jerusalem. The memorial is best known for an emblematic statue of a defiant lion representing Trumpeldor and his comrades. The city ofKiryat Shemona , literally "Town of the Eight" was named after them.See also
*
Riots in Palestine of 1920
*Sykes-Picot Agreement
*Tel-Hai Academic College Notes
External links
* [http://www.telhai.ac.il Tel Hai Academic College]
* [http://www.open-museums.co.il/telhai Tel-Hai Industrial Park]References
*Wasserstein, Bernard (1991). "The British in Palestine: The Mandatory Government and the Arab-Jewish Conflict 1917-1929". Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-17574-1
*Zerubavel, Yael (1991). The Politics of Interpretation: Tel Hai in Israeli Collective Memory, "AJS (Association for Jewish Studies) Review" 16 (1991): 133-160.
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