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Bethlehem

[ beth-li-hem, -lee-uhm ]

noun

  1. a town in NW Jordan, near Jerusalem; occupied by Israel since 1967: birthplace of Jesus and David.
  2. a city in E Pennsylvania.


Bethlehem

/ ˈbɛθlɪˌhɛm; -lɪəm /

noun

  1. a town in the West Bank, near Jerusalem: birthplace of Jesus and early home of King David
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Bethlehem

  1. The village near Jerusalem (see also Jerusalem ) where Jesus was born. ( See Nativity .)
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Best known for chronicling the counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s with essays like “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and “The White Album,” Didion spent her life writing about her astute observations.

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President Joe Biden slouched off to Bethlehem in his best William Butler Yeats fashion Wednesday night, speaking to the American people for the last time as president.

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The little town of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank has good reason to consider itself the capital of Christmas but this year it does not feel like it.

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The attacker fled the scene but later turned himself in to Israeli security forces following searches in the nearby Bethlehem area, the military added.

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"From a colonial perspective, you want to project yourself," said Mazin Qumsiyeh, an environmental scientist who teaches at Bethlehem University and founded the Palestine Museum of Natural History.

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