Canaan is significant to the Hebrew people, as it is the promised land, land of milk and honey.
Israel
AnswerJudaism believes that the Hebrew people were promised the land of Canaan, its size varying somewhat in different chapters of the Bible. Christianity, which has its roots in Judaism, also believes that the Hebrew people were promised this land.
They were (and still are) natives of the land of Israel.
In Hebrew, Israel the land is "Israel - ישראל", Israel the people are "Israelim ישראלים" means Israelis.
Because famine hit the land of Israel
The land of Israel (ישראל)
The Judean hills.
In the land of Israel (formerly Canaan).
The diaspora refers to any area outside of the land of Israel. In Hebrew diaspora is go-lah.Diaspora refers to people not land. It refers to the dispersion, scattering of the Jewish people. The words origins are Greek or French.
Egyptian slavery
No one knows. The Hebrew people have an unknown origin that goes back possibly 12,000 years or more. But if you are asking about the first Hebrew to believe in God, tradition holds it was Abraham, who lived in the land of Israel around 2000 BCE.