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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
Will a war break out between Syria and Israel?
Answer 1
The war with Syria and Israel had already started when Israel send some airplanes to a Syrian compound which they claim that compound is where Syria and North Korea are "exchanging" nuclear weapons. Some Syrians, even Israelis, didn't see any destruction of the compound. That came to a declaration of war.
Answer 2
The Syrian Regime and Free Syrian Army have enough issues with each other and the other parties in the Syrian Civil War to worry about Israel for the moment. Israel, conversely, does not wish to enmesh itself in the Syrian Civil War because of the mangled disaster and tragedy that was Israel's intervention in the Lebanese Civil War.
Conversely, ISIL, which controls parts of Syria far away from the Israeli border, has argued that it is their intent to overrun all of the Middle Eastern borders and directly mentioned "Occupied Palestine", which is a term often used in the Arab World to refer to Israel, as one of the territories that they plan to overrun. While Israel certainly regards ISIL as an enemy, there are currently no intentions by the Israeli government to directly intervene in the Syrian Civil War (which includes ISIL).
Anyone willing to live there and enjoy the bounty and the blessings of the land
in the democracy, freedom, and equality that the Jewish administration has
brought to it in the 60-years' twinkling of an historic eye ... whether Muslim,
Christian, or Jew ... deserves that life. Exactly as they have it there now, but
without the constant threats from outside.
Where can you find Home Center stores in Israel?
Strangely, their English site lists none. They do, however have a Hebrew site listing 41 stores in Israel. See the attached Related Link.
Are the Australian Aborigines one of the Lost Tribes of Israel?
Another Answer:
Not the Aborigines peoples but perhaps the people who migrated/imprisoned there are. Considering that the Blessings of God were split before Israel's death - the birthright went to Joseph and the Sceptre went to Judah - the rest of the sons had been told of there future descendants and this can be read in Genesis 49. The question then is 'Does God forget His promises and allows them to end thousands of years ago?' He certainly didn't forget the Sceptre promise via Judah as Christ lived and died as prophecized. Each person must search and pray on this for the answer.
A curious blessing was given by Israel to Joseph's two sons: Manasseh and Ephraim. Israel first puts his name upon the two making them his. He then puts the greater blessing upon the younger Ephraim as indicated here:
Genesis 48:17-19New King James Version (NKJV)17 Now when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; so he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. 18 And Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."
19 But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations."When one looks through all of history, where do you find two brothers (very close peoples) where one is a multitude or company (Commonwealth) of Nations, and the other the most powerful nation the earth has known?
Lastly, according to recent Mitrochondra DNA findings - mtDNA - no living being could have existed before 25,000 years ago (as it is currently calculated).
Answer:
No; that is a fanciful notion, or wishful thinking, contradicted by DNA studies.
Just as today, Israelites came in differing skin-tones, heights, and body-types. Our tradition is that the twelve sons of Jacob (the 12 Tribes) were not completely similar to each other in appearance, though none of them was really dark-skinned (Rashi commentary on Genesis 12:11).
Abraham and Sarah came from southern Iraq and their wider family from northern Iraq. Since DNA tests have shown that Jews intermarried infrequently throughout history, Abraham and the Israelites probably looked like Jews today.
DNA testing of Jewish communities worldwide has shown that they are all interrelated and of Middle Eastern genetics, comparable to the Sephardim today (not African or Egyptian).
In 2000, the analysis of a report by Nicholas Wade "provided genetic witness that Jewish communities have, to a remarkable extent, retained their biological identity separate from their host populations, evidence of relatively little intermarriage or conversion into Judaism over the centuries. The results accord with Jewish history and tradition."
The only exception to this is the Ethiopian Black Jews, who show only a trace of DNA connection to other Jewish communities. Western ethnologists today hold the view that the Jews of Gondar (Ethiopia) either emerged from a Judaizing strain among Ethiopian Christians, or were converted by Yemeni Jews who crossed the Red Sea.
A study by Professors Lucotte and Smets has shown that the genetic father of Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) was close to the Ethiopian non-Jewish populations. This is consistent with the theory that Beta Israel are descendants of ancient inhabitants of Ethiopia, not the Middle East.
Hammer et al. in 2000, and the team of Shen in 2004, arrive at similar conclusions, namely that the DNA of the Ethiopian Jews probably indicates a conversion of local populations.It has been estimated that this happened some 2,000 years ago.
And in America:
The beliefs and practices of Black Hebrew groups vary considerably. The differences are so great that historian James Tinney has suggested the classification of the organizations into three quite distinct groups.
Some of these groups are actually Christians, or part-Christians in their beliefs and practices. They have titles such as Church of the Living God, the Church of God and Saints of Christ, and the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ. Others profess beliefs closer to Judaism, such as the Commandment Keepers.
As Judaism sees it, the issue with their claims is that they can produce no generally-accepted evidence of actual Semitic ancestry. These groups created themselves spontaneously within recent history, from within the wider African-American population.
Any African-Americans who choose to become actual Jews through proper conversion are accepted into Judaism.
What peninsula did Israel seize in 1967?
The Sinai Peninsula was captured by Israel during the Six Day War in 1967.
It was peacefully handed back to Egypt upon the signing of the treaty in 1979.
It is called the Dead Sea.
Which special abilities were the prophets thought to have?
why did Israel split into two different kingdoms
How far is it from Dan Israel to Eilat Israel?
Aerial distance around 420 km.
Driving mileage - around 468 km.
What was the long term effect of the promises made in the balfour declaration?
The Balfour Declaration is often seen as the initiation of the process leading to the establishment of the State of Israel. -
Who brought the Jewish population back to Israel?
Recently:
The Jews brought themselves to Israel. They chose to realize their vision of creating a Jewish State.
There were some cases where the push factors were very strong as well. In Post-Holocaust Europe as well as the Arab States, Jews were made to feel extremely unwelcome. However, no country attempted to subsidize or direct Jewish movements towards Israel.
In ancient times:
Zerubavel led the first group who returned to Judea, near the end of the Babylonian exile. The main group was brought by Ezra a couple of decades later.
Can Mt Hermon be seen from Jerusalem?
It depends where in Jerusalem you are, but yes, there are parts of Jerusalem where the silhouette of Mt. Hermon can be seen in the distance if the weather is good.
Who has more land Palestine or Israel?
It depends on your terms.
If you are referring to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip cumulatively as Palestine and the 1949 borders of the State of Israel as Israel, then Israel is 3x larger than Palestine.
If you are referring to the British Mandate of Palestine, then the State of Israel according to 1949 borders is smaller than Palestine.
If you are comparing the current areas under Israeli control to the area of Mandatory Palestine, they are roughly equal. (The gain in the Golan Heights is more-or-less offset by the loss of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank Zone A regions.)
Palestine
What were the repercussions of Israel replacing Palestine on the map?
First thing that must be understood is that the land you are talking about had different names in different times. The native population, Jews and Israelis, call it Eretz Israel, which means "Land of Israel" in Hebrew. The name "Palestine" was given to this area thousands years later by Romans after they quelled the Jewish Bar Kohba revolt that cost Rome thousands of lives of their soldiers who were occupying Judea. In revenge, Romans renamed Judea in Palestine naming it after the bitter enemies of Jews and Israelis: Philistines( in Roman transcription, Palestinians, the union of tribes of the Sea People who invaded the coastal land of what later became Eretz Israel in some 1800 BC).
Jews finally defeated Philistines, but it cost them dear. Romans also tried to rename Jerusalem in Aelea Capitolina, but this name did not stick, while the name "Palestine" did. Since then, the name "Palestine" became the name officially used by Romans ( and, consecutively, by all the world under Roman rule) in all the documents. But this is the same territory of Eretz Israel under different name, and Jews and Israelis go on calling it "Eretz Israel" like they had been doing for thousands years.
To understand it better: there is a country whose inhabitants call it The Country of the Rising Sun. But the West calls it Japan. Different names are applied for the same territory.
Second what you have to know is that there never was any country named Palestine. Palestine is the geographical area, like balkans, where different countries and part of the countries are situated. About 75% of the geographical area called "Palestine" is where modern Jordan is. Another 13% of Palestine is where Israel, together with Judea and Samaria, is. Southern Lebanon and Soutghern part of Syria are also in Palestine.
So, Israel has not replaced anything on the map, as there was nothing to replace.
How much land have the Palestinians lost to the Israel's?
Most of what they gained in 1948, when the UN drew up the map but the "Palestinians"
rejected the whole notion of partition and attacked Israel.
Most common food in ancient israel?
honey, Bread (for rich people), honey doghnut, barley (for poor families), meal of locusts.
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