Barzilai Medical Center
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Barzilai Medical Center is a 600-bed district general hospital in Ashkelon, Israel opened in 1961. The hospital serves a population of 500,000, including a large number of Ethiopian and Russian immigr
Barzilai Medical Center
Barzilai Medical Center at night
Palestinian and Israeli families find a shelter at Barzilai hospital during shelling from Grad rockets from the Gaza Strip
Shrine of Husayn's Head
Shrine of Husayn's Head
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The Shrine of Husayn's Head was a shrine built by the Fatimids on a hilltop adjacent to Ascalon that was reputed to have held the head of Husayn ibn Ali between c. 906 CE and 1153 CE. It was described
Shrine of Husayn's Head in 1943
The shrine during the annual festival
The minbar, today in the Ibrahimi Mosque, contains inscriptions describing the construction of the shrine
Niche for Husayn's head at the Umayyad mosque in Damascus