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French Hill neighborhood in Jerusalem. Named after British general John French. Amusingly, erroneously translated into Hebrew as giv'at tzarfatit - the word f
by llimos 6y ago
French Hill neighborhood in Jerusalem.
Named after British general John French.
Amusingly, erroneously translated into Hebrew as giv'at tzarfatit - the word for the French nationality.
* Full disclosure: Wikipedia claims it's not true. But it's disputed and I have heard this story from local historians.
- JadeNB 6y ago> Named after British general John French. Who drove me crazy in an audiobook I listened to recently on WWI, whose author, one can only assume intentionally, kept deploying phrases like (very roughly paraphrased from memory) "As a British officer, French hated and distrusted the French, who resented being commanded by a Briton."