- year. The name
Eilat was
given to the
abandoned frontier post of Umm al-
Rashrāsh (Arabic: أم الرشراش) in 1949 by the
Committee for the
Designation of Place-Names...
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March 1949
during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War to mark the
capture of Umm
Rashrash. The flag’s
display in what
later became the city of
Eilat was replaced...
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Jordanian forces withdrew. Simultaneously,
Negev forces moved towards Umm
Rashrash through the
Valley of Fingers. At night, the
Alexandroni Brigade set sail...
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secured the
Southern Negev,
reaching the
southern tip of Palestine: Umm
Rashrash on the Red Sea (where
Eilat was
built later) and
taking it
without a battle...
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Israel launched Operation Uvda; by 10 March, the
Israelis reached Umm
Rashrash (where
Eilat was
built later) and took it
without a battle. The
Negev Brigade...
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control of the area
around the
abandoned coastal police station of Umm al-
Rashrash,
where Israel later built the town of Eilat, as part of
Operation Uvda...
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Rehovot and most of the
Negev desert,
including the
southern outpost of Umm
Rashrash (now Eilat). The
Jerusalem Corpus Separatum included Bethlehem and the...
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strategically located at the
starting point of Gulf of
Aqaba that ends at Umm al
Rashrash,
Palestine and Aqaba, Jordan. It is an
important economic epicenter in...
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immigrants s****ing
refuge in
Palestine during the
Mandated period. Um
Rashrash:
Memorial site in Eilat,
where the Flag of
Israel was
raised for the first...
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Israeli forces took
control of the area
around the
coastal village of Umm al-
Rashrash,
later renamed Eilat, as part of
Operation Uvda. The
uninhabited islands...
