A Tegart fort is a type of militarized police fort constructed throughout Palestine during the British Mandatory period, initiated as a measure against...
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Mandatory Palestine Tegart fort, style of militarized police fort constructed throughout Palestine during the British Mandatory period Tegart's wall, barbed...
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Sir Charles Augustus Tegart KCIE MVO KPM JP (5 October 1881 – 6 April 1946) was an Irish police officer who served extensively in British India and Palestine...
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Promontory fort, mainly Iron Age Star fort, in 15th and 16th century Europe Tegart fort, in Palestine from 1930s Wagon fort, a mobile fortification Fort (band)...
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Tegart's Wall was a barbed wire fence erected in May–June 1938 by British Mandatory authorities in the Upper Galilee near the northern border of the territory...
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Latrun (category Tegart forts)
Arab revolt, the British authorities built a number of police forts (named Tegart forts after their designer) at various locations; Latrun was chosen...
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Metzudat Koach (redirect from Nabi Yusha fort)
Koach is listed as part of the Israel National Trail. Metzudat Koah is a Tegart fort commissioned by the British and constructed by Solel Boneh. It was a...
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Mukataa (category Tegart forts)
Palestine. Mukataas were mostly built during the British Mandate as Tegart forts and were used both as British government centers and as dwellings for...
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1937 The watchtower being erected at Sha'ar Hagolan, 21 August 1937. Tegart fort Segal, Rafi & Weizman, Eyal (editors) (2003) A civilian occupation. The...
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Palestine Police Force (section The Tegart forts)
Tegart forts are a style of militarized police fortress constructed throughout Palestine during the British mandate. The forts are named after Tegart...
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2011. Among the former prisoners is Israeli scientist Mordechai Vanunu. Tegart fort, including the one inside Shikma Prison Aerial view „Ukraine asks Israel...
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Camp 1391 (category Tegart forts)
release of some information about the jail. Camp 1391 is situated in a Tegart fort on route 574 between kibbutz Barkai and kibbutz Ma'anit in northern Israel...
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directed by R. G. Springsteen Tegart fort, any of several police fortresses built throughout Palestine by Sir Charles Tegart, often referred to by Israeli...
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Sir Charles Tegart was a senior police officer brought into Palestine from the colonial force of British India on 21 October 1937. Tegart and his deputy...
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Service. The prison was opened in 1950, and was built in the style of the Tegart forts from the British Mandate era. It is one of four high-security criminal...
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Ness Ziona (category Tegart forts)
Ness Ziona (Hebrew: נֵס צִיּוֹנָה, Nes Tziyona) is a city in Central District, Israel. In 2022 it had a population of 50,341, and its jurisdiction was...
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Gesher, Israel (category Tegart forts)
April 1948, the Haganah took control of the Gesher police station, a Tegart fort that had been evacuated by the British. The Arab Legion, still under...
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Al-Nabi Yusha' (category Tegart forts)
Al-Nabi Yusha' (Arabic: النبي يوشع) was a small Palestinian village in the Galilee situated 17 kilometers to the northeast of Safad, with an elevation...
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Calcutta, due to being mistaken for Tegart. In 1930, a bomb was thrown into Tegart's car at Dalhousie Square but Tegart managed to shoot the revolutionary...
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Iraq Suwaydan (category Tegart forts)
authorities withdrew, handing over the police fort to the Egyptian army, which then garrisoned it. The fort controlled the road between al-Majdal and Bayt...
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from Morocco. An Israel Defense Forces armory is located in the moshav. Tegart fort in Shomera. A street in Shomera. Shomera from a bird's eye view "Regional...
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soldiers killed in defense of the country. The main building, a Mandate-era Tegart fortress, houses a library with a publicly accessible computerized record...
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Mattat מַתָּת Sasa Tegart fort Mattat Show map of Northwest Israel Mattat Show map of Israel Coordinates: 33°2′25″N 35°21′17″E / 33.04028°N 35.35472°E...
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Palestine. Among other projects, the company built Tegart's wall in 1938. It also built the Tegart Forts and prefabricated the buildings for the Tower and...
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Operation Shmone (section Attempts to capture the fort)
and Iraq al-Manshiyya. The Iraq Suwaydan police fort was built along with the other British Tegart forts in the wake of the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine...
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Tell es-Sultan (category Tegart forts)
Tell es-Sultan (Arabic: تل السلطان, lit. Sultan's Hill), also known as Tel Jericho or Ancient Jericho, is an archaeological site and a UNESCO World Heritage...
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Charles Tegart that Jatin, generally referred to as "Bagha Jatin" (translated as Tiger Jatin), was "a divine personality".[citation needed] Tegart himself...
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Kfar Saba (category Tegart forts)
Kfar Saba (Hebrew: כְּפַר סָבָא [kfaʁˈsaba]), officially Kfar Sava [kfaʁ saˈva], is a city in the Sharon region, of the Central District of Israel. In...
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Rehovot (category Tegart forts)
Rehovot (Hebrew: רְחוֹבוֹת Reḥōvōt [ʁeχoˈvot] / [ʁeˈχovot]) is a city in the Central District of Israel, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Tel Aviv...
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August 1955, three Israeli paratroop companies attacked the British-built Tegart fort in Khan Yunis from where attacks had been carried out against Israelis...
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