By Wikipedia Syrian President Bashar Assad met with terrorist Samir Kuntar at the Presidential Palace in Damascus on Monday, where the two discussed the current…
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For the village in Azerbaijan, see Haran, Azerbaijan. In the Bible, Haran is the name of two men and of a place. Though usually spelled identically in English, they are not in Hebrew. Genesis records that a man named Haran was born and died in Ur of the Chaldees. He was a son of Terah and brother of Nahor and Abram (later Abraham). Haran was the father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah . According to Genesis, sometime after Haran's death Terah set out with Abram, Abram's wife Sarai, and Lot towards Canaan, along the way settling in the place called Haran . After the death of Terah in Haran, Abram, Sarai and Lot continued on to (southern) Canaan, current-day Israel. The city of Harran, in modern southern Turkey (32 km/20 mi southeast of Şanlıurfa, formerly Edessa) near the border with Syria, is probably the Haran of the Biblical accounts. Another Haran is mentioned in 1 Chronicles 2:46. He is a son of Caleb (great-grandson of Judah son of Jacob) and father of Gazez.
