Beersheba Israel is mainly dealt with in the Hebrew Bible in connection with the Patriarchs Abraham and Isaac, who both dig a well and close peace treaties with King Abimelech of Gerar at the site.
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25 Facts About Beersheba Israel
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Beersheba Israel set aside seven lambs to swear that it was he that had dug the well and no one else.
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Beersheba Israel was the territory of the tribe of Simeon and Judah.
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Findings unearthed at Tel Sheva, an archaeological site east of modern-day Beersheba Israel, suggest the region has been inhabited since the 4th millennium BC.
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Beersheba Israel was described in the Madaba Map and Eusebius of Caesarea as a large village with a Roman garrison.
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Beersheba played an important role in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in World War I The Battle of Beersheba was part of a wider British offensive in aimed at breaking the Turkish defensive line from Gaza to Beersheba.
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At the time of the 1922 census of Palestine, Beersheba Israel had a population of 2,012 Muslims, 235 Christians, 98 Jews and 11 Druze.
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At the time of the 1931 census, Beersheba Israel had 545 occupied houses and a population of 2,791 Muslims, 152 Christians, 11 Jews and 5 Baha'i.
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In 1947, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine proposed that Beersheba Israel be included within the Jewish state in their partition plan for Palestine.
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Beersheba Israel was deemed strategically important due to its location with a reliable water supply and at a major crossroads, northwest to Hebron and Jerusalem, east to the Dead Sea and al Karak, south to Aqaba, west to Gaza and southwest to Al-Auja and the border with Egypt.
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The Beersheba Israel Valley has been populated for thousands of years, as it has available water, which flows from the Hebron hills in the winter and is stored underground in vast quantities.
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The main river in Beersheba Israel is Nahal Beersheva, a wadi that floods in the winter.
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Beersheba Israel is surrounded by a number of satellite towns, including Omer, Lehavim, and Meitar, and the Bedouin localities of Rahat, Tel as-Sabi, and Lakiya.
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Beersheba Israel has a hot desert climate with Mediterranean influences.
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Largest employers in Beersheba are Soroka Medical Center, the municipality, Israel Defense Forces and Ben-Gurion University.
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Beersheba Israel is emerging as a high-tech center, with an emphasis on cyber security.
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Today, Beersheba Israel is divided into seventeen residential neighborhoods in addition to the Old City and Ramot, an umbrella neighborhood of four sub-districts.
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In 1906, during the Ottoman era, the Great Mosque of Beersheba Israel was built with donations collected from the Bedouin residents in the Negev.
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In 2011 the Supreme Court of Beersheba Israel, sitting as the High Court of Justice, ordered the property to be turned into a museum of Islam without reverting to a place of worship.
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Metrodan Beersheba Israel, established in 2003, had a fleet of 90 buses and operates 19 lines in the city between 2003 and 2016, most of which depart from the Beersheba Israel Central Bus Station.
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Until 2012, the railway line to Beersheba Israel used a slow single-track configuration with sharp curves and many level crossings which limited train speed.
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Beersheba Israel has two other local clubs, Maccabi Be'er Sheva and FC Be'er Sheva, a continuation of the defunct Beitar Avraham Be'er Sheva.
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Beersheba Israel is home to a rugby team, whose senior and youth squads have won several national titles.
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