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Beersheba (; , Be'er Sheva ; ; , Levantine pronunciation: ) is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the center of the fourth most populous metropolitan area in Israel, the eighth most populous city in Israel with a population of , and the second largest city with a total of 117,500 dunams (after Jerusalem).
Beersheba grew in importance in the 19th century, when the Ottoman Turks built a regional police station there. The Battle of Beersheba was part of a wider British offensive in World War I aimed at breaking the Turkish defensive line from Gaza to Beersheba. In 1947, Bir Seb'a , as it was known, was envisioned as part of the Arab state in the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine. Following the declaration of Israel's independence, the Egyptian army amassed its forces in Beersheba as a strategic and logistical base. In the Battle of Beersheba waged in October 1948, it was conquered by the Israel Defense Forces.
Beersheba has grown considerably since then. A large portion of the population is made up of the descendants of Sephardi Jews and Mizrahi Jews who immigrated from Arab countries after 1948, as well as smaller communities of Bene Israel and Cochin Jews from India. Second and third waves of immigration have taken place since 1990, bringing Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union, as well as Beta Israel immigrants from Ethiopia. The Soviet immigrants have made the game of chess a major sport in Beersheba. The city is now Israel's national chess center, with more chess grandmasters per capita than any other city in the world.
Beersheba is a city in Israel.
Beersheba or similar may also refer to:
- Beersheba Springs, Tennessee, a town in Grundy County, Tennessee, United States
- Berseba, a village in the Karas Region of southern Namibia
Usage examples of "beersheba".
Captain Falkenberg, you are authorized to take your battalion to Fort Beersheba at your earliest convenience.
The Colonel has ordered us to occupy Fort Beersheba at the earliest feasible moment.
He adjusted the map until the section between the city and Fort Beersheba filled the screen.
I can't believe they expect us to take Beersheba tonight, not when they've every reason to believe we'll be attending a grand ball in five days.
Gentlemen, by dawn we could have ninety combat Marines in position at Fort Beersheba, with the rest of the 501st marching to their relief.
When there were moments of quiet in the firing around Fort Beersheba, we could hear more distant sounds to the east.
Immediate airborne assault on Fort Beersheba is authorized, provided that assault risks no more than 10% of effective strength of 501st Bn.
It is further considered judgment of undersigned that secondary objective of early capture of Fort Beersheba does not justify endangering main mission of occupation of Jordan Valley.
Colonel Harrington stayed at Fort Beersheba and joined us in the officers' mess in the evenings.
About ten kilometers upriver from Beersheba, the Jordan was joined by a tributary known as the Allan River.
After the support they gave me at the roadblock below Beersheba, I was ready to believe they could do anything.
The rainstorm that had soaked us two days before at Beersheba had passed across the Allan Valley, and the fields were squishy marshlands.
At Beersheba, in one of the countless underground bomb-storage bunkers, were twelve quite ordinary-looking objects, indistinguishable from the many other items designed to be attached to tactical aircraft, except for the silver-red striped labels on their sides.
The fifteen minutes it took to fly from Beersheba to the Golan passed rapidly.
In the Beersheba hospital ward where they first took us, General Gavish, Commander South, came and asked the captain why he was sailing within missile range, when Southern Command had hard intelligence that the Egyptians were preparing to fire missiles.