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Megiddo

Site of a fortress town in northern Israel, where Thutmose III defeated the Canaanites; the Old Testament figure Josiah was killed in battle in about 609 BC; and in World War I the British field marshal Allenby broke the Turkish front in 1918. It is identified with Armageddon.



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The top diplomat is being replaced in Ireland later this summer by Mr Daniel Megido.
Yagoda, an Israeli filmmaker, interviews Arab villagers who were forced to leave their village in 1949 and the Jewish settlers who built Kibbutz Megido on the same piece of land.
com's Ira Rifkin cites that Wednesday's deadly terrorist attack in Israel coincided with the anniversary of the start of the six-day war and occurred at Megido, which is Hebrew for Armageddon.
 
 
 
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