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Bank of the West. Bank of the West was an American financial institution headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. It had more than 600 branches and offices in the Midwest and Western United States . It was founded in 1874 in San Jose, California, as the Farmers National Gold Bank of San Jose. Bank of the West was then owned by ...
West Bank. City of Bethlehem, West Bank. The name West Bank is a translation of the Arabic term aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah, which designates the territory situated on the western side of the Jordan River that was occupied in 1948 and annexed in 1950 by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
Israel's economy was 10 times larger than the West Bank's on the eve of the occupation but had experienced two years of recession. The West Bank's population stood between 585,500 and 803,600 and, while under Jordanian rule, accounted for 40% of Jordan's GNP, with an annual growth rate of 6–8%.
Two men were killed in a shooting attack in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Thursday, Israeli emergency services said. The Israeli military said a gunman had opened fire at a gas station and was ...
Karim Taha, a board member of the mosque Tawfic belonged to in Louisiana, Masjid Omar, said the 17-year-old's community was devastated by his death. "We are like brothers and sisters. We all lived ...
The Oslo II Accord divided the Israeli-occupied West Bank into three administrative divisions: the Palestinian enclaves as "Areas A and B" and the remainder, including Israeli settlements, as "Area C". The Palestinian enclaves were created by a process of subtraction by allocating to Area C everything that the Israeli government considered ...
The announcement signals an escalation in the administration's response to settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, because sanctions against outposts have impacts on wider groups ...
Since the occupation of the West Bank in 1967, numerous United Nations resolutions, including 446, 452, 465, 471 and 476 affirm unambiguously that Israel's occupation is illegal, and, since Resolution 446 adopted on 22 March 1979, have confirmed that its settlements there have no legal validity and pose a serious obstacle to peace.