it was the nation of babylon
:p
The nation of Israel (ישראל)
Abraham and his family founded Judaism in the Fertile Crescent. The lives of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were mostly in Israel (Canaan). After a few centuries in Egyptian exile, the Israelites (who had by then become a large nation) established their civilization in Israel for many centuries.
They are in the same rough physical area and the descendants of Ancient Israel live in Modern Israel, returned after centuries of Exile.
Seventy years
70 years
Italy became a nation in 1861. Israel became a nation in 1949.
because Israel is where the Jews are. not because it was a big nation, and that is where Mary was.
Israel is a modern nation with all the medical technology and immunization that any other nation has.
The nation is approximately 3500 years old. The modern state of Israel was established in 1948.
The nation of Israel (ישראל)
It depends on the exile in question. Most Jews that wanted to returned to Land of Israel after the exile in Babylonia on account of Cyrus the Great. Many Jews have returned to Israel in the last 150 years from the Roman Exiling of the Jews nearly 2000 years ago. However, not all Jews have returned home after exile in both cases.
It was Israel in 1948