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Ramla or Ramleh (both: räm`lĕ) [Arab.,=sand], town (1994 pop. 57,300), central Israel, in a farming area. Ramla may be the biblical Ramathaim-zophim Ramathaim-zophim (răm'əthā`ĭm-zō`fĭm) ..... Click the link for more information. , but more probably it was founded (c.716) by the Arabs. It became the capital of Palestine and was fought over constantly during the Crusades. After Israeli forces took it in 1948, Ramla was resettled with Jewish immigrants. Landmarks include the Great Mosque (originally a 12th-century Crusader church) and the Square Tower (1318). |
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In 1967 after the borders opened following the Six Day War, Bashir returned to Ramla to visit his childhood home, meeting Dalia who opened the door to him. She met with architect Busayna Dbait, who briefed her on the terrible housing problems Palestinians must endure in Ramla Lod. At the very moment that establishing the State of Israel achieved the Jews' two-millennia old dream of returning to the land of milk and honey, Palestinians initiated their parallel longing for the lost gardens of Jaffa and Ramla. |
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