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Israel
Located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, Israel is the only Jewish-majority state in the world. It has a total land area of 22,072 sq km with an estimated population of approximately 7.7 million as of 2010.
6,421 Questions
What did abrahams son Isacc do?
In his old age Isaac was visually impared and so unknowingly gave his blessing to the younger son Jacob rather than the Eldest son Esau, because Jacob and his mother divised a plan to trick Isaac into giving Jacob the blessing. When Esau came back from hunting an realised what had happened he beg his father if there was any blessing left for him but there wasnt, so Esau planned to kill his brother Jacob for stealing his blessing. When the mother (Rebekah) learned of this she sent Jacob away to another land where his uncle lived. For details on as to how Isaac was tricked etc read Genesis Chapter 27. Hope the above answered your question:-)
What adjectives describe Israel and begin with the letter R?
remarkabe
renowned
reputable
resolute
resourceful
resplendent
rightful
robust
rousing
Has there been fighting in the Middle East since Israel became an independent nation in 1948?
Answer 1
Yes, because they had to lose land, and now they want to take over Israel.
Answer 2
Yes. However, there was also fighting in the Middle East long before Israel became a state. In fact, the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict go back to the first settlements of Zionist Jews in Ottoman Palestine who were rejected and attacked by the Muslim Palestinians.
It is also worth noting that the Arab-Israeli Conflict, while garnering a lot of news, is nowhere near the biggest conflict in the Middle East. The Iran-Iraq War alone killed more people than have died in all of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Wars put together and more Syrians have died in this current Syrian Civil War than Palestinians have died in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Arab-Palestinian Conflict put together. Israel's existence did not create war in what had been a peaceful place, but just created some new wars where there were quite a number of extant conflicts already.
How many kings were there in Israel before the birth of Jesus?
That's a harder question than you might think. Israel and Judah split and combined several times during the beginning. There are also lapses in the historical record.
Saul, 1020 BC to Hoseah 731 BC (23 for Israel)
Fell to the Assyrians
Why don't the Israelis and Palestinians just give up and concede to the other side?
Answer 1
Because unfortunately the ongoing conflict in the middle east is fueled not only by the warring factions but also the military industrial complex.The M.I.C relies upon conflict for its existence so will not allow any action that may end that conflict.This is why there is continual war.For the foreseeable future Israeli-Palestinian Conflict will continue.
Answer 2
It's not an issue concerning the Military Industrial Complex. In order to "give up" or "concede", you have to give the other side whatever it wants. Israeli and Palestinian extremists think that they are in the right and will fight to defend themselves without question. Moderates on both sides also recognize that this conflict, if not given a balanced solution will result in an existential crisis for one or both of the parties. This would be untenable.
Are the countries Jordan and Israel two separate countries?
Separate as two man defined identities, joined as two physical entities.
What do poor people in Israel eat?
The poor often ate coarse bread made from barley. Grain was ground to flour by women using millstones. They liked eating fruit.
In modern day Israel I doubt there are really 'poor' people as such,so I think that they would generally eat an average Kosher diet if they were Jewish.
What did the people of Israel believe the Messiah would come to do?
Judaism teaches that a Man should do everything in his power to achieve Divakut, a perfect cleaving to God and the Divine Will. The Messiah brings the Kingdom of God to the Earthly plane making this cleavage far easier and far more natural. The strictures of the Jewish religion will no longer be necessary in the Messianic Age because the connection to God that they are intended to foster will occur without them. Therefore, the people of Israel were awaiting the Messiah. In addition, during the Roman Period, the Jews were being persecuted by the Romans for their beliefs and wished for the safety and security that the Messianic Age would bring.
As for the Christian answer, there is a gross misinterpretation of the original, and continuing, Jewish premise for the Messiah as explained in the first paragraph here. The Messiah was not going to Unite the World by conquest. He was going to Unite the World by merely existing and building the Kingdom of God. Everyone would recognize who he was and what his purpose was. It the failure to do this (among other Messianic requirements such as making lions and lambs exist peacefully, ending all conflict, ending disease, and ending the night) that prevented and still prevents Jews from accepting Jesus as their Savior. Jews fundamentally reject the notion that he could be the LORD for a variety of different, but similar reasons.
Answer 1
Jewish people had been migrating around for thousands of years without a homeland. Also, many people did not like the Jews being in their country (the most famous example being Hitler's Holocaust). Anti-Semitism was also very high during that time.
Answer 2
People felt pity on the Jews after the Holocaust.
Additionally, the Zionist movement lead by Theodor Herzl was able to establish a Jewish homeland, Israel.
Answer 3
Short Answer:
The hatred for the Jews kept them from living decent lives in Christian Europe and the Islamic world (Ottoman Empire then) with thousands being killed for their religion throughout the Middle Ages in Europe. Antisemitism has come to a peak with The Holocaust, an ongoing mass genocide committed by Nazi Germany on the Jews of all Europe, with 6 million of them being murdered.It was clear that the solution is the Jews having their own state, and as a big community of Jews has grown in Israel those days, the U.N decided to allow the Jews a home in a portion of this country. (It was the only logical place for a Jewish nation to be founded as a Jewish community was in the place, it is the homeland of the Jews and the majority of the place wasn't populated.)
Long Answer:
The idea of Israel and the founding of a country for the Jewish people is said to have been the idea of Theodor Herzl, as an answer to the problems of the Jews living in foreign lands, in Europe and in the ottoman empire. The Jews were not granted equal citizen rights in these foreign lands, and in christian Europe, were often persecuted for their religion and their ancestors' connection with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Antisemitism saw a significant rise in Europe in the late 19th century and on, coming to a peak in Nazi Germany and The Holocaust, in which about 6 million Jews were killed in an ongoing mass genocide committed by the Germans and partly by ally countries. After these horrific events, Jews were living in refugee camps in Europe, in terrible conditions, and even then, were killed by the hundreds for being Jewish in eastern Europe.
It was then, that the world has understood that the Jews must have their own state, protected by their own army, safe from persecution and having full citizen rights.
At the time, Jews that has left Europe in the early 20th century to follow the idea of Zionism (A modern state for the Jews) has established a flourishing community in Israel, alongside the Arabs in the place. Seeing Israel, and this community, as the only realistic place for the founding of this new state, the U.N. has decided Israel (or Palestine then) was to be divided between the Arabs and the Jews. The Arabs did not accept the decision and went to war for the land, but The Jews won the war, and declared an Independent Jewish Nation State - Israel.
Who were knights protecting the holy land from?
they were protecting the land from terrorists and rapists who were trying to make people rapists and terrorists
What was the land that eventually became israel?
That specific tract of land in the southwest Levant has had a number of names throughout history, but the four most commonly used are: Canaan, Land of Israel, the Holy Land, and Mandatory Palestine.
Israel has only two real seasons: the dry season and the wet season. The dry season (roughly: May-October) is the summer, and the wet season (roughly: November or December-March) is the winter. Snow is relatively rare.
Instead of Spring or Autumn, Israel has a "transition season," in March-May and in October-November, during which there are alternating waves of warmness or heat, and cooler weather or cold (with or without rain). This transition may last anywhere from over three months (typically March-May), to nothing at all. In 1992, for example, a heavy winter gave way, on February 23, directly into warmer weather, with no further precipitation whatsoever, for the entire summer. And in 2010, the summer and warm, dry weather lasted, unbroken, through till December 6.
What was the cycle that israel went into once they were in the promised land?
when you read the books of Moses you see the Israelites began to conquer the land of Canaan with Joshua leading them after Moses dies. The Israelites where commanded by GOD to kill all the inhabitants of Canaan but the Israelites did not do what GOD commanded them as staet in Judges 2:1-5.So GOD told them that the heathens in Canaan would be a thorn in there side.After Joshua dies the Israelites set up Judges which where kinda like governors. Israel then began to worship the gods of the heathen that where in Canaan.GOD being mad with Israel puts them in slavery under a wicked king in Mesopotamia, and the moabites. Then God sends them a person to save them out of slavery. this process of repenting and worshiping other gods goes on until Israel set up their first second king "King David".
Why do Evangelical Christians support Israel?
Christians believe that our religion was brought to us by the Lord Jesus Christ who was a Jew, and the first Christians were all Jews. The Jews were the apple of God's eye and are still very precious to Him.
Why did Prophet Mohammed hate Israel?
As far as I am aware, Mohammed said little on the subject of a Jewish homeland or Jewish control of what was then termed Palaestina and is now Israel/Palestine. When he died Islam had not yet conquered the Levant and it would have to wait until the Caliphate of Omar for the territory to come under Muslim control. With the exception of a few Jewish tribes that ended up opposite of Mohammed during his wars in Arabia, most Jews received Islam well and thought kindly of their conquerors (since they were less barbaric than their former masters).
Since there was no aspiration of Jewish Nationalism since the failure of the Bar Kochba Revolts nearly 500 years earlier, the idea of a Jewish Nationaist Revolt that could upset Islamic expansion was also unrealistic and did not need addressing. However, several Qur'anic verses recall the Promise made by God to the Jewish people concerning Israel such as Qur'an 5:20-21 and it would stand to reason that Mohammed may even have endorsed an autonomous Jewish territory within the future Islamic Caliphate in accordance with God's will. (Of course, it may also have been that his fury with Banu Qurayza may have left him unwilling to concede power to Jews again, but this is all guesswork.)
The name "Israel" originally comes from Jacob (which was added to his first name)
The country, and the Jews (Jacobs descendants) are therfore called Israel, and Israel's sons.
What was the country that helped in creating Israel?
Most of the legwork in creating the State of Israel was done by Jews who would later become the "Founding Fathers of Israel", such as Weizmann, Ben Gurion, Sharett, Eban, Ben Yehuda, and Begin.
In terms of international support, the Soviet Union was probably the largest early contributor the creation of the State of Israel. The Soviet Union persuaded many nations, including the Eastern bloc to Support the United Nations Resolution 181. Also the majority of arms used in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9 by Israeli Soldiers were Soviet weapons funneled through Czechoslovakia. Britain and the United States, Israel's current major allies, both placed a weapons embargo on the overall region. The Soviet Union withdrew support for Israel in 1953 and began supporting the Arab countries after that point, but without Soviet assistance from 1947-1953, Israel may not have had the necessary votes at the United Nations and sufficient weaponry to defend itself.
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Zionism has only at its root the idea that that Jews should have self-sovereignty in their own country: Israel. Every other aspect of Zionism is at the whim of the individual who can has a number of auxiliary beliefs about how best to achieve the goal of Zionism, such as:
- Whether or not a Palestinian State helps or hinders the existence of a Jewish State?
- What is the best way to realize such a state if it is in Israel's benefit?
- What rights and privileges should Jews have in this state and should they be more, less, or equal to non-Jews?
- What should the welfare system of this country be like?
- How should the government be structured?
- What should immigration policy look like?
- How should the economy be organized and what economic activities should be incentivized?
- Many other questions.
The core tenet of Zionism cannot be changed (or else the person is no longer a Zionist) but the other pieces of a person's Zionist beliefs are completely at his discretion. Convince someone, and perhaps he'll believe like you do.
