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37-731: Manara may refer to: Places [ edit ] Manara, Israel , a kibbutz in Upper Gallilee adjacent to the Lebanese border Manara, Lebanon , a municipality in the Beqaa Governorate near the Syrian border Manara, Nepal Manara, Ohio , United States Al Manara, Dubai , United Arab Emirates Al-Manara, Palestine , a depopulated Palestinian village near Tiberias Buildings [ edit ] Al Manara Stadium ,

74-516: A casual traveller in the Holy Land the Bible becomes, in its form, and therefore to some extent in its substance, a new book. Much would be gained by ...bringing to light the remains of so many races and generations which must lie concealed under the accumulation of rubbish and ruins on which those villages stand ... The PEF conducted many early excavations of biblical and post-biblical sites around

111-485: A land teeming with fertility and rich in history, but almost without an inhabitant – a country without a people, and look! scattered over the world, a people without a country." It was one of the earliest usages by a prominent politician of the phrase " A land without a people for a people without a land ," which was to become widely used by advocates of Jewish settlement in Palestine. And, he added: "But let it return into

148-480: A literary society founded by British Consul James Finn and his wife Elizabeth Anne Finn . Many photographs of Palestine have survived from this period. Frederick J. Bliss wrote of the foundation that "[a]s far as its aims were concerned this organization was but a re-institution of a Society formed about the year 1804 under the name of the Palestine Association ... it is interesting to note that

185-756: A patriotism as we do in this dear old England, which we love so much." Speech at the first meeting of the PEF: William Thomson , the Archbishop of York and first President of the PEF Following the completion of the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem , the Biblical archaeologists and clergymen who supported the survey financed the creation of the fund. It was founded on 22 June 1865 with initial funding of £300. The most notable of

222-447: A religious society; we are not about to launch controversy; we are about to apply the rules of science, which are so well understood by us in our branches, to an investigation into the facts concerning the Holy Land. "No country should be of so much interest to us as that in which the documents of our Faith were written, and the momentous events they describe enacted. At the same time no country more urgently requires illustration ... Even to

259-666: A river in Northern Madagascar Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Manara . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manara&oldid=1181475439 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Italian-language surnames Hidden categories: Short description

296-915: A stadium in Manara, Beirut Al Manara Tower , a tower on Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, United Arab Emirates Al Manara (tower) , a tower in Business Bay in Dubai, United Arab Emirates Other uses [ edit ] Manara (Nord) River - a river in Northern Madagascar. Manara (film) , a 2018 Lebanese short film 5092 Manara , a main belt asteroid named after Alessandro Manara Il commissario Manara , an Italian television crime series Minaret , known as manara (منارة, but more usually مئذنة) in Arabic Cruise Ship MS Manara People with

333-522: A unique insight into the lives of two of the women comprising the PEF workforce. Subsequent directors only referred to the women in their employ as anonymous labourers, sometimes complaining that they brought too much gossip—though in Bliss' journals, he recounts more familial and romantic tension that caused trouble on site among the men. For some years, the fund's office was located north of Wigmore Street in

370-469: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Manara, Israel The village was formerly inhabited by Arabs, when it was known as Kh el Menarah. In 1881, the PEF 's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "ruins of a modern Arab village, several rock-cut cisterns , and one wine-press" In the 1940s, 2538 dunams of land were purchased by

407-574: Is held before an lecture. Each year the Palestine Exploration Fund offers grants for travel and research related to topics connected with its founding aims. "to promote research into the archaeology and history, manners and customs and culture, topography, geology and natural sciences of biblical Palestine and the Levant" The committee welcomes interdisciplinary applications relating to the fund's aims, as well as those relating to

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444-443: Is one woman employed to work on an excavation with Bliss, at Tell el-Hesi . He first writes about her in 1891, noting that she is a capital worker though "a bolder, wilder girl I never saw". He describes her capacity to run all over the site and clear the trenches for excavation with wonder, also commenting on her good looks and marriage prospects. He writes about her cousin, Rizq, as well, and her abilities to haul earth. Bliss provided

481-531: Is the oldest known organization in the world created specifically for the study of the Levant region, also known as Palestine . Often simply known as the PEF , its initial objective was to carry out surveys of the topography and ethnography of Ottoman Palestine – producing the PEF Survey of Palestine . Its remit was considered to fall between an expeditionary survey and military intelligence gathering. There

518-567: The Jewish National Fund from Asa'ad Bey Khuri of Beirut . The kibbutz was established in 1943 by members of the HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed youth group and young immigrants from Germany and Poland . Leon Uris used an incident from the history of the kibbutz in his novel, Exodus . The scene of the night hike with the children from Gan Dafna as the kibbutz faced attack was based on the war-time transport of

555-414: The Levant , as well as studies involving natural history, anthropology, history and geography. In 1867, Charles Warren led PEF's biggest expedition. Warren and his team improved the topography of Jerusalem and discovered the ancient water systems that lay beneath this city. The water system was later named Warren's Shaft , after his work. They also made the first excavations of Tell es-Sultan , site of

592-647: The Marylebone section of the City of Westminster , London, but in early 2019, the PEF moved to 5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich , London. Chief Executive and Curator of the PEF, Felicity Cobbing, told The Jordan Times that the Ottoman's Palestine region included historical Palestine, Jordan, southern Syria, Lebanon, the Sinai Peninsula and the island of Cyprus. The PEF's "goal was – and remains – to study

629-760: The British Museum Department of Middle East, the Palestine Exploration Fund hosts free lectures that reflect the diverse interests of their membership. The PEF also co-ordinates joint lectures with the Council for British Research in the Levant, the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society, the Society for Arabian Studies, and the Egypt Exploration Society. Once a year, an Annual General Meeting (AGM)

666-462: The Fund to carry baskets of soil from the excavations to the dump. These women also cut back brush and dug. The majority of these women remain nameless, as they were hired to perform hard labour on behalf of the trained archaeologists. Bliss took an active interest in the lives of his workers—though not necessarily in their well-being—recording a few names and stories. In his diary, Bliss wrote that most of

703-552: The General Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund recognized an organic connection with the earlier Society." The preliminary meeting of the Society of the Palestine Exploration Fund took place in the Jerusalem Chamber of Westminster Abbey . William Thomson , the Archbishop of York, publicly read the original prospectus at this meeting; [O]ur object is strictly an inductive inquiry. We are not to be

740-518: The PEF's archival collections. The PEF grants are open to all members of the PEF or someone who is becoming a member. The PEF's offices also house collections of photographs, maps, specimens, manuscripts, and paintings. At their location in London, there are collections over 6,000 artefacts that range in date from 40,000 B.C. to the 19th century. The archives contain over 40,000 photographs of Palestine , Jordan , and Syria . Objects come from sites in

777-490: The South Levant, in particular from Jerusalem, Tell el Hesi, and Samaria. The material comes almost exclusively from PEF excavations carried out between the 1860s to the 1930s. Items on display include artefacts from excavations by Charles Warren , Sir William Flinders Petrie , Frederick Jones Bliss , and John Crowfoot . The PEF also has a collection of casts from original items that now reside in different areas around

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814-486: The biblical city of Jericho . A 2013 publication, The Walls of the Temple Mount , provides more specifics about Warren's work, as summarized in a book review: "... he concentrated on excavating shafts down beneath the ground to the level of the lower parts of the external Temple Mount walls, recording the different types of stonework he encountered at different levels and other features, such as Robinson's Arch on

851-458: The children of Kibbutz Manara from the mountaintop to what was presumed to be a safer place on the valley floor. In June 1948 the kibbutz requested land from the newly depopulated Palestinian village of Qadas , as it was "suitable for winter crops." Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin 's sister Rachel Ya'akov was a founding member. As Manara lies less than 100 metres from the Lebanese border, problems have arisen during fighting between

888-519: The country, its people and its natural, ancient and cultural heritage," she added. The new Greenwich headquarters provides more space for PEF collections and its specialist library. "Now we can welcome many more scholars and we can look forward to developing collaborative projects with other institutions both in the UK and internationally," Cobbing said. The PEF holds regular events and lectures and provides annual grants for various projects. In partnership with

925-674: The excavations of Flinders Petrie and Frederick Jones Bliss at Tell el Hesi (1890–1892), the excavations of R.A.S. Macalister at Gezer (1902–06), Duncan Mackenzie 's excavations at Ain Shems-Beth Shemesh in 1910–1912, C. L. Woolley and T. E. Lawrence on the Wilderness of Zin Survey (1913–14), and many others. In addition to these items, the PEF also maintains a collection of photographs of expeditions, coins, natural history, models, and historic forgeries. The PEF also houses

962-577: The following activities have been reported: The Palestine Exploration Fund was also involved in the foundation of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem in 1919. The School worked with the Fund in joint excavations at Jerusalem's Ophel in the 1920s. The school's second director, John Winter Crowfoot , was Chairman of the PEF from 1945 to 1950. Through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women were frequently employed by

999-485: The following: In his opening address ( p.8 ), Archbishop Thomson laid down three basic principles for the Society: Regarding the latter, great emphasis was placed upon the nomenclature "Holy Land", so the notion of religion could never have been far away. Also ( p.10 ) stress was laid upon the fact that "The Society numbers among its supporters Christians and Jews". (Muslims were not mentioned.) Elsewhere

1036-648: The founders were Arthur P. Stanley , the Dean of Westminster , and George Grove , who later founded the Royal College of Music and was responsible for Grove's Dictionary of Music . Its founders established the fund "for the purpose of investigating the Archaeology, Geography, manners, customs and culture, Geology and Natural History of the Holy Land ". The roots of the Palestine Exploration Fund lie in

1073-669: The hands of the Israelites..." In 1878, the Treasurer's statement listed over 130 local associations of the PEF in the United Kingdom (including Ireland). There were also branches in Canada and Australia, and Gaza City and Jerusalem . Expenditure in 1877 amounted to £2,959 14s 11d. Notable persons associated with PEF: The first 21 years of the fund are summarised in PEF (1886). Its chapters and persons mentioned include

1110-609: The scenic cliffs via its cable cars descending from the Upper Manara Cliff down to Kiryat Shmona in the valley below, and a technical glass manufacturing plant. Palestine Exploration Fund The Palestine Exploration Fund is a British society based in London . It was founded in 1865, shortly after the completion of the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem by Royal Engineers of the War Department. The Fund

1147-495: The surname Manara [ edit ] Achille Manara (1827–1906), Italian cardinal Luciano Manara (1825–1849), Italian soldier Milo Manara (born 1945), Italian comic book creator Miguel Mañara Vicentelo de Leca  [ es ] (1627–1679), Spanish Jesuit brother who helped build Santa Caridad de Sevilla Hospital; see List of people declared venerable by Pope John Paul II § 1985 See also [ edit ] Mananara River (Analanjirofo) ,

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1184-746: The two countries. The Menara bypass project was completed in 2005 to provide safe access to the kibbutz. Manara is boasted to be 888 metres above sea level and is a rare style for a kibbutz, with apartments providing the accommodation, due to the limited space. During the Israel–Hamas war , Hezbollah targeted northern Israeli border communities, forcing evacuations, including in Bar'am. On October 19, at least two anti-tank missiles were fired from Lebanese territory, hitting Manara without causing any casualties. Manara's main industries are agriculture (primarily cotton fields, apples and chickens ), tourism to

1221-705: The western side and the Herodian street below it. ... in 1884 the PEF published a large portfolio of 50 of Warren's maps, plans and drawings titled Plans, Elevations, Sections, etc., Shewing the Results of the Excavations at Jerusalem, 1867–70 (now known as the 'Warren Atlas')." In 1875, the Earl of Shaftesbury , a prominent social reformer, told the Annual General Meeting of the PEF that "We have there

1258-541: The workers were from Bureir , a village six miles away from the Tell. Most of the men slept at camp, "digging little shallow graves for a bed", but "the women and girls had the long walk both before and after work. Six miles' walk before 6.30a.m., and six miles' walk after 5p.m., with a hard day's work of carrying earth-piled baskets on the head in between". He comments that this does not seem like an easy life, but more women and girls applied for work than he could employ. Heuda

1295-484: The world. Also at the PEF is an archive of maps that is composed mainly of documents, letters, reports, plans and maps compiled by the explorers and scholars who worked for the PEF. These explorers include Charles Warren in Jerusalem and Palestine (1867–1870), Claude Conder and Horatio Kitchener on the Survey of Western Palestine (1872–1878), the Survey of Eastern Palestine (1880–81) and the Wady Arabah (1883–4),

1332-412: Was also strong religious interest from Christians; William Thomson , Archbishop of York, was the first president of the PEF. As a result, the PEF had a complex relationship with Corps of Royal Engineers of the War Department. The PEF members sent back reports to the UK on the need to salvage and modernise the Levant region. "This country of Palestine belongs to you and me, it is essentially ours. It

1369-493: Was given to the Father of Israel in the words: "Walk through the land in the length of it, and in the breadth of it, for I will give it unto thee". We mean to walk through Palestine in the length and in the breadth of it, because that land has been given unto us. It is the land from which comes news of our Redemption. It is the land towards which we turn as the fountain of all our hopes; it is the land to which we may look with as true

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