Yater
Yater
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Yater (
Name
E. H. Palmer wrote that the name Yater came from a personal name.[2]
History
Antiquity
Yater is identified with Yatir (Hebrew: יתיר), a place referenced in the Baraita on the "Boundaries of the Land of Israel" as part of the delineation of the northwestern border of Jewish resettlement following the return from Babylonian exile. Scholarly analysis suggests that this text describes the Hasmonean or Herodian periods (2nd or 1st century BCE). Another possibility is At Tiri, although Finkelstein and Frankel argue that Yater is more plausible.[3][4]
Yater was mentioned in the 3rd century Mosaic of Rehob.[4]
Ottoman period
In 1852, Edward Robinson visited and found "some few remains of antiquity", including two excavated chambers at the south of the village.[5]
In 1875
According to the
In 1881, the
Modern period
During the
The
On 22 February 1993, a Nepali soldier serving with UNIFIL was killed by Israeli artillery fire near Yater.[13] Two years later, 20 March 1995, another Nepali soldier was also killed and three others wounded by Israeli shelling in the same area.
Two men installing a water tank on top of a house in Yater were killed by an Israeli missile on 30 March 1996. Hezbollah responded by firing rockets into northern Israel. It was one of the incidents in the build-up to Operation Grapes of Wrath the following month which caused massive destruction across all of the south of Lebanon.[14]
Notable people
- Ali Al-Kourani (born 1944) Shia scholar & cleric
- Hizbullah
References
- ^ Localiban. "Yater - Localiban". www.localiban.org. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 104
- ISSN 0334-4657.
- ^ a b Frankel, R. & Finkelstein, I. (1983), p. 44
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1856, pp. 61-62
- ^ Guerin, 1880, pp. 413-4
- ^ Guerin, 1880, pp. 413-4; in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 260
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 260
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 203
- ^ "Two Unifil Soldiers Killed in Two Encounters in Lebanon". 16 September 1991.
- ^ Middle East International No 422, 3 April 1992, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters MP; Michael Jansen p.12
- ^ Middle East International No 420, 6 March 1992; Gerald Butt p.7
- ^ Middle East International No 445, 5 March 1993; February chronology p.15
- ^ Middle East International No 524, 26 April 1996: Godfrey Jansen pp.4-5
Bibliography
- Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Frankel, Raphael; JSTOR 23398920.
- Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1856). Later Biblical Researches in Palestine and adjacent regions: A Journal of Travels in the year 1852. London: John Murray.
External links
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Yater, Localiban
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