Tel Hai
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Tel Hai (Hebrew: 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.
[edit] 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 the upper Galilee containing Tel Hai, Metula, Hamrah, and Kfar Giladi to the French jurisdiction. Tel Hai was one of several attacks on Jews in the context of the 1920 Palestine riots.
In 1921, Tel Hai was resettled and in 1926 was absorbed into the kibbutz Kfar Giladi. The memorial is best known for an emblematic statue of a defiant lion representing Trumpeldor and his comrades. The city of Kiryat Shemona, literally Town of the Eight was named after them.
A national monument in Upper Galilee, Israel commemorates the deaths of eight Jews, six men and two women, among them the one-armed, Russian-Jewish independence fighter Joseph Trumpeldor, in an engagement with local King Faisal's forces in 1920.
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[edit] References
Yael Zerubavel, "The Politics of Interpretation: Tel Hai in Israeli Collective Memory," AJS (Association for Jewish Studies) Review 16 (1991): 133-160.
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