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Ma'ale Akrabim massacre, the Glossary

The Ma'ale Akrabim massacre, known in English as the Scorpions Pass Massacre, was an attack on an Israeli passenger bus, carried out on 17 March 1954, in the middle of the day.^[1]

Auja al-Hafir

Auja al-Hafir (عوجة الحفير, also Auja) was an ancient road junction close to water wells in the western Negev and eastern Sinai.

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Azazima

The Azazima or Azazme/ 'Azazmeh/al-Azazmeh are a Bedouin tribe whose grazing territory used to be the desert around the wells at El Auja and Bir Ain on the border between Israel and Egypt.

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The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu (singular) are pastorally nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia (Iraq).

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Beersheba

Beersheba, officially Be'er-Sheva (usually spelled Beer Sheva; Bəʾēr Ševaʿ,; Biʾr as-Sabʿ), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel.

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Benny Morris

Benny Morris (בני מוריס; born 8 December 1948) is an Israeli historian.

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Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.

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E. L. M. Burns

Lieutenant General Eedson Louis Millard "Tommy" Burns, (June 17, 1897 – September 13, 1985) was a senior officer of the Canadian Army and a diplomat.

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Egged (company)

Egged Transportation Ltd (אֶגֶד) is the largest transit bus company in Israel.

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Eilat

Eilat (אֵילַת; Īlāt) is Israel's southernmost city, with a population of, a busy port and popular resort at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on what is known in Israel as the Gulf of Eilat and in Jordan as the Gulf of Aqaba.

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Ein Netafim

Ein Netafim is a water spring in the Eilat mountains located near the Israeli border with Egypt.

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Ghor es-Safi

Ghor es-Safi, also transliterated Ghawr as-Safi, is an area in the Jordan valley located in the Wadi al-Hasa.

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Grade (slope)

The grade (US) or gradient (UK) (also called stepth, slope, incline, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal.

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HaMakhtesh HaKatan

HaMakhtesh HaKatan (הַמַּכְתֵּשׁ הַקָּטָן, lit. The Small Crater) or simply Makhtesh HaKatan or Makhtesh Katan, is a makhtesh, a geological erosional landform, situated in Israel's Negev desert.

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Highway 12 (Israel)

Highway 12 is a single carriageway road in the South District of Israel.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Israel Standard Time

Israel Standard Time (IST) (שעון ישראל, lit. "Clock of Israel") is the standard time zone in Israel.

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Jewish Agency for Israel

The Jewish Agency for Israel (translit), formerly known as the Jewish Agency for Palestine, is the largest Jewish non-profit organization in the world.

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John Bagot Glubb

Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb, KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE, MC, KStJ, KPM (16 April 1897 – 17 March 1986), known as Glubb Pasha (غلوب باشا) and Abu Hunaik (أبو حنيك) by the Jordanians, was a British soldier, scholar, and author, who led and trained Transjordan's Arab Legion between 1939 and 1956 as its commanding general.

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Jordan–Israel Mixed Armistice Commission

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan/Israel Mixed Armistice Commission (HKJI MAC) was the United Nations organisation of observers which dealt with complaints from Jordan and Israel to maintain the fragile cease fire along the demarcation line (Green Line) between Israel and Jordan.

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Misrad HaHutz; وزارة الخارجية الإسرائيلية) is one of the most important ministries in the Israeli government.

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Moshe Sharett (משה שרת; born Moshe Chertok; 15 October 1894 – 7 July 1965) was the second prime minister of Israel and the country’s first foreign minister.

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Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency

The Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency was an armed cross-border conflict, which peaked between 1949 and 1956, involving Israel and Palestinian militants, mainly based in the Gaza Strip, under the nominal control, of the All-Palestine Protectorate a Palestinian client-state of Egypt declared in October 1948, which became the focal point of the Palestinian fedayeen activity.

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Qibya

Qibya (قبية) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located northwest of Ramallah and exactly north of the large Israeli city of Modi'in.

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Qibya massacre

The Qibya massacre occurred during Operation Shoshana, a reprisal operation that occurred in October 1953 when Israeli troops under future prime minister Ariel Sharon attacked the village of Qibya in the West Bank, which was then under Jordan's control, and killed Palestinian civilians.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma'ale_Akrabim_massacre

Also known as Ma'ale Akrabim incident, Ma-aleh Akrabim incident, Scorpion Pass Massacre.

Ma'ale Akrabim massacre, the Glossary

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See also

1954 mass shootings in Asia

1954 murders in Israel

1954 road incidents

20th-century mass murder in Israel

Ambushes of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Attacks on buses by Palestinian militant groups

Bus incidents in Israel

March 1954 events in Asia

Mass shootings in Israel

Massacres in 1954

Massacres in Israel

Massacres in Israel during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency

Terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians before 1967

Terrorist incidents in Israel in 1954

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