Gideon Eilat

Gideon (Gidi) Eilat (17 January 1924 - 21 April 2015) was a former member of the Palmach, commander of the third battalion of the Yiftach Brigade during the War of Independence. Active in the Kibbutz Artzi movement, one of the founders of the Civil Guard of the Israel Police Department, and a member of Kibbutz Beit Alfa.

Childhood

Eilat, originally “Lewald”, was born in 1924 in the city of Koenisberg in eastern Prussia (known today as Kaliningrad under Russian sovereignty). His mother Rivkah (Betty) was brought up in the Karlin-Hassidic dynastic tradition. She was in her profession a medical Doctor. His father Kurt (Tobi) was a Doctor of Jurisprudence. During his childhood, Gidi studied at the public school in the city of Koenisberg. He became a member of the “Habbonim Dror” (builders of freedom) society. In 1933 Gidi emigrated with his family to the land of Israel. (Eretz Israel).

His parents settled in Tel Aviv, but he was sent to study in the educational institute of the HaShomer HaTzair located in kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek. Gidi studied there for two years and that was his first encounter with the HaShomer HaTzair movement, and the Kibbutz Artzi. During Junior High School he attended a worker’s children school (Beit Hinuch L’ ieladei ovdim) in Tel Aviv. After finishing he signed up in Tichon Hadash, there he became the first student enrolled in the school. During his teen years, he joined a branch of the HaShomer HaTzair in Tel Aviv. Together with his classmates he became part of a group known as Gdud HaSade whose mission was to join kibbutz Beit Alfa. While a junior in High School, he interrupted his studies for one year, to be the organizer of all senior students throughout Israel who joined the defense forces then being set up.

Eilat

Eilat (/eɪˈlɑːt/; Hebrew:  אֵילַת  Hebrew pronunciation: [ej'lat]; Arabic: ايلات‎) is Israel's southernmost city, a busy port and popular resort located at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on the Gulf of Aqaba.

Home to about 47,700 people, Eilat is part of the Southern Negev Desert, at the southern end of the Arava, adjacent to the Egyptian village of Taba to the south, the Jordanian port city of Aqaba to the east, and within sight of Saudi Arabia to the south-east, across the gulf.

Eilat's arid desert climate and low humidity are moderated by proximity to a warm sea. Temperatures often exceed 40 °C (104 °F) in summer, and 21 °C (70 °F) in winter, while water temperatures range between 20 and 26 °C (68 and 79 °F). Eilat averages 360 sunny days a year.

The city's beaches, coral reef, nightlife and desert landscapes make it a popular destination for domestic and international tourism.

Geography

The geology and landscape are varied: igneous and metamorphic rocks, sandstone and limestone; mountains up to 892 metres (2,927 ft) above sea level; broad valleys such as the Arava, and seashore on the Gulf of Aqaba. With an annual average rainfall of 28 millimetres (1.1 in) and summer temperatures of 40 °C (104 °F) and higher, water resources and vegetation are limited. "The main elements that influenced the region's history were the copper resources and other minerals, the ancient international roads that crossed the area, and its geopolitical and strategic position. These resulted in a settlement density that defies the environmental conditions."

List of craters on Mars: A-G

This is a list of craters on Mars. There are hundreds of thousands of impact craters on Mars, but only some of them have names. This list here only contains named Martian craters starting with the letter A – G (see also lists for H – N and O – Z).

Large Martian craters (greater than 60 km in diameter) are named after famous scientists and science fiction authors; smaller ones (less than 60 km in diameter) get their names from towns on Earth. Craters cannot be named for living people, and small crater names are not intended to be commemorative - that is, a small crater isn't actually named after a specific town on Earth, but rather its name comes at random from a pool of terrestrial place names, with some exceptions made for craters near landing sites. Latitude and longitude are given as planetographic coordinates with west longitude.

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Eilat (disambiguation)

Eilat is a city in Israel.

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