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Ash
Ironic etymological interlude:
Apart from meaning 'hamlet' or 'village' the saxon word 'ham' as a place-name refers to the land between two rivers. The most well-known of these in our parts being the West Ham and East Ham between the Lee and Roding rivers.
Now some say that the two blue lines on the Israeli flag represent the Nile and the Euphrates, with the space between them being the land that Israel aspires to. I'm not saying that, btw.