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Ephraim
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Ephraim (ē`frēəm), in the Bible, younger son of Joseph and Asenath and eponymous ancestor of one of the 12 tribes of Israel. His tribe occupied the rugged country around Shiloh that later came to be called Mt. Ephraim. Ephraim was also a name for the Northern Kingdom when Israel was territorially reduced, the land of outlying northern tribes having been conquered (8th cent.) by the Assyrians.
Ephraim Old Testament
1. 
a. the younger son of Joseph, who received the principal blessing of his grandfather Jacob (Genesis 48:8--22)
b. the tribe descended from him
c. the territory of this tribe, west of the River Jordan
2. the northern kingdom of Israel after the kingdom of Solomon had been divided into two


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Centre spokesman Efraim Zuroff said he was frustrated with Zentai's continued attempts to obstruct the case with irrelevant "legal and technical challenges".
Efraim Zuroff, top Nazi-hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, said: "Boere's victims are just as worthy of obtaining justice today as they were right after he committed his crimes.
The verdict strengthens the view that the long time gap in no ways diminishes the perpetrator's guilt and that age offers no legal protection for the murders," said Efraim Zuroff, the head of the centre's Jerusalem office in a statement.
 
 
 
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