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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.
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How many olympic medals has Israel won?
9 ... 1 gold, 1 silver, 7 bronze.
Gold -
1) Gal Fridman - men's windsurfer sailing at the 2004 Games in Athens.
Silver -
1) Yael Arad - women's half-middleweight class judo at the 1992 Games in Barcelona.
Bronze -
1) Shay-Oren Smadga - men's lightweight class judo at the 1992 Games in Barcelona.
2) Gal Fridman - men's windsurfer sailing at the 1996 Games in Atlanta.
3) Michael Kolganov - men's 500 meter singles kayaking at the 2000 Games in Sydney.
4) Arik Ze'evi - men's half-heavyweight class judo at the 2004 Games in Athens.
5) Shahar Zubari - men's windsurfer sailing at the 2008 Games in Beijing.
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water polo is palyed in a 25m pool, width veries. There are 7 players in the pool from one team, including a goalie. The object is to get the ball in the goal, past the gaolie and the other team. you can only use one hand and the game is quite violent, but very fun!
Answer: On 5th September 1972, Palestinian terrotists took 11 Israeli athletes, coaches and officials hostage. Two of the hostages were murdered almost immediately and the rest died during a failed rescue attempt by German authorities: 5 were machine gunned by one terrorist and 4 were shot and then blown up by another terrorist who exploded a grenade in their helicopter.
Why does Israel play football in Europe?
Israel does not take part in the European games, it is in Asia and therefore not elligible to compete in Europe
Israel however has been a part of Europe for the purposes of some continental sporting championships. For example football where Israel have played in European qualifying groups in major champs.
Israel plays soccer in the European league because the Asian and African leagues choose not to compete with them because they believe Israel to be a stolen state.
Why do people who do not hate Jews hate Israel?
Answer 1
They're afraid of Israel because they fear another terrorist attack from another country.
Answer 2
Israel has engaged in a number of policies in violation of international law. Israel is not reticent for performing such acts and claims that it violates those laws because they are prejudicial to its rights and interests. If other countries did the same, (Iran is a great example), they are sternly reprimanded by the international community and forced to toe the line. As concerns Jews that hate Israel, there are various theological reasons to be Anti-Zionist which stem from the "Purpose of the Jew in the World" and the "Nature of the Exile".
Please also see the Related Question below, but obviously excise the Anti-Semitic Answers.
How do you write Israel in Arabic?
Israel = Ø¥ÙسْرَائÙيل (with vowels) or إسرائيل (without vowels)
Why did the Israelites revolt in 992 BC splitting Israel in two?
Could be two reasons
One being that the people of Israel sinned against God and even Solomon became the idolator. Second being that, it is God's eternal plan to bring Messiah to the world through the blood line as well as kingly title line of tribe of Jude and in the descendent of David. Hence, God needed to protect the people Jude and the line of David. If God destroys whole Israel because of their rebellion and sin, this may interrupt the plan of God. Thus, God separated the 10 tribes and kept two other separately. Later the name Israel has gone almost and replaced as Jews. God protected Jews who are mainly tribe of Jude and David's line the Jesus was born among Jews.
Why were Palestinians against the establishment of Israel?
Answer 1
The Palestinian Arabs were greatly saddened by the creation of the State of Israel because they believed that the land that had physically belonged to their parents and grandparents should have been theirs for inheritance. In their minds, it did not make sense that a group of German, Polish, French, English, and Russian speaking people should claim land that their ancestors had not even visited for centuries. Even by the time of Israel's Declaration of Statehood, less than half of the land within the UN proscribed borders of Resolution 181 was owned by Jews. Therefore, the idea of Jewish State being even more physically expansive than the land already taken was alarming.
Answer 2
The entire idea of Israel is a modern colony in the Middle East. Prior to 1900, less than 10% of the population of what would become Mandatory Palestine was Jewish and the Fellahin or Settled Arabs were the majority. There were also a large percentage of Turks, Circassians, Bedouin, and Druze, but the Settled Arabs were still the majority. Zionist Jews or those Jews who desired to create a Jewish State cleverly manipulated the Great Powers, especially the United Kingdom into giving them the right to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine in large numbers without consulting the rights of the Fellahin. Additionally, Zionist Jews purchased large swaths of land from Turkish nobility without consulting the Fellahin who lived on that land for centuries but did not properly own it. As a result, numerous Fellahin were forced off of their land during the Yishuv period, Yishuv being the word for a Zionist Jewish settlement in Mandatory Palestine. The Jewish population in Palestine continued to rise until 1939 when the Fellahin successfully petitioned the British government to close off Jewish immigration.
However, the Jewish minority had grown sufficiently large in Mandatory Palestine that this combined with the Holocaust was able to earn international sympathy for the Zionist cause of establishing a State for the Jews in a land where the Jewish population had literally "just" shown up. Compare this to Rhodesia which was a state that declared independence to be ruled by the White Settlers of Rhodesia in 1960 that had been on that land. Rhodesia was so vilified in the international community that in only 20 years, it reverted to become the African nation of Zimbabwe. However, in that case, the White Settlers had come to Rhodesia as early as 1860, which makes them far more "local" than the Zionist Jews in Palestine in 1948 (most of whom were in the country for less than 30 years). The attempt by the Yishuv to form a state could not be tolerated and the Arabs formed militias to prevent the Yishuv from asserting control over land that had been historically settled by the Arab people. As a result, war broke out between the Zionist Haganah, Palmach, Irgun, and Lehi militias and the Fellahin, represented by the Holy War Army and the Arab Liberation Army. The neighboring Arab countries joined in when the Yishuv declared independence to help to the Arab militias.
What are the names of the thirteen judges of Israel?
The thirteen judges named in the Book of Judges are: Othniel (Judges 3:9) Ehud (3:15) Shamgar (3:31) Deborah (4:5) Gideon (6:36) Abimalech (9:1) Tola (10:1) Jair (10:3) Jephthah (11:11) Ibzan (12:8) Elon (12:11) Abdon (12:13) Samson (16:30) Israel also had two more judges before Saul was anointed king: Eli (1 Samuel 4:18), and Samuel (1 Samuel 7:15)
A. Mesltayim C. Shofar D. Kinnor
What was the result for Israel of the war with Egypt?
Israel had four wars with Egypt:
in 1948 Egypt together with Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq attacked Israel just four hours after Israel proclaimed itself a State. This war got the name of the War of Independence. Israel won the war.
In 1956 Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal and closed the Straits of Tiran for any ships under Israeli flag, in clear violation of the International Maritime Law Israel together with Great Britain and France struck Egypt, pushed Egyptian forces 30 km from the Suez Canal and opened the Straits of Tiran. Under the pressure of the USA, great Britain, france and Israel had to withdraw, but the Straight of Tiran by the terms of the Armistice remained open for Israeli ships.
For Israel, the outcome was victorious.
In 1967, Egypt together with Syria and Jordan concentrated 300,000 strong army on the border with Israel and declared that it was going to attack it in order to end with Jewish presence in Palestine. In the pre-emptive strike, Israel annihilated all Egyptian aircraft on the airfields, and in the fast ground operation totally defeated Egypt. After that Israel regrouped troops and dealt two swift strikes on Syria and Jordan. The name of the war is Six Days war. it was a brilliant victory of Israel
In 1973, Egypt attacked Israel again. This war called Yom Kippur war was the most difficult for Israel but finally it "pocketed" the Egyptian Third Army and Israeli tank columns moved on the Egyptian capital Cairo without any Egyptian troops before them. Due to the pressure of the USA, Israel stopped the offensive on Cairo and the Armistice was signed between Israel and Egypt when Israeli tanks were 100 km from it.
What ethnicity are most Israelis?
Israelis are from a variety of different places around the world, similar to Americans. There is also a lot intermarriage between Jews from different areas, which makes the demographics difficult to hash out. However, the most common ethnicities in Israel are listed below:
1) Endemically Palestinian: The largest ethnicity of Israeli citizens (approximately 1.7 million Israelis) are those who can trace their ancestry to the territory of the former Mandate of Palestine while it was still under Ottoman occupation. The majority of these citizens are non-Jewish and are identified as Israeli Arabs.
2) Russian: After the Russian mass immigration to Israel in the early 1990s, Russians make up the largest Jewish ethnicity (at approximately 1.4 million Israelis).
3) Moroccan: Due to the large Moroccan Jewish immigration in the early 1950s and continuing trickle into the 1970s, the Moroccan Jewish community in Israel is still very large (at approximately 1.2 million Israelis).
The remainder of Israelis hail mostly from Europe, North America, the Arab World, and small minorities from Africa, South America, and East Asia.
What is the ruling political party in Israel?
Kadima major party with more seats.. It had alliance with other parties for forming a government and majority
Where do most people live in Israel?
Most Israelis live in the Tel Aviv or Jerusalem metropolitan areas.
What are some ancient Israel achievements?
The population is 8,146,000 (in 2014).
Israel has the highest standard of living in the Middle East.
It has one of the highest life-expectancies in the world.
Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees per capita in the world.
Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large margin (109 per 10,000 people), as well as one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed.
The 2013 "Freedom in the World" annual survey, ranked Israel as the Middle East and North Africa's only free country.
Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile defense system gained worldwide acclaim after intercepting hundreds of rockets fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip.
Israel one of seven countries capable of launching satellites.
Israel is considered one of the most advanced countries in Southwest Asia in economic and industrial development. It has the second-largest number of startup companies in the world (after the United States), and the largest number of Nasdaq-listed companies outside North America. The Israeli economy was ranked as the world's most durable economy in the face of crises, and was also ranked first in the rate of research and development investments.
Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds, right behind the US.
Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined.
Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of democracy, religious freedom, and economic opportunity.
In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000 Ethiopian Jews at risk in Ethiopia to safety in Israel.
Israel was ranked as the worldwide leader in its supply of skilled manpower.
Israel's leading exports include electronics, software, computerized systems, communications technology, medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, fruits, chemicals, military technology, and cut diamonds.
Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process, an international standard that certifies diamonds as "conflict free."
Israel has one of the lowest external debts in the developed world.
Israel is one of the world's leaders in solar energy industry and in water technology. In response to serious water shortages, Israeli engineers and agriculturalists developed a revolutionary drip irrigation system to minimize the amount of water used to grow crops.
Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees.
Israel has led the world in stem-cell research papers per capita since 2000.
Israeli scientists developed the first fully computerized, no-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.
Israel has the highest number of museums per capita in the world.
About one million Israelis speak Russian, 700,000 speak French, and most can communicate reasonably well in English.
Literacy in Israel is over 97%.
An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical treatment.
Israel's Givun imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the inside, the camera helps doctors diagnose cancer and digestive disorders.
Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the heart pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save lives among those with congestive heart failure. The new device is synchronized with the heart's mechanical operations through a sophisticated system of sensors.
Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.
Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U.S., about 70 in Japan, and 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions, Israel places first in this category as well.
The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.
Most of the Windows NT operating system was developed by Microsoft-Israel.
The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.
Voice-mail technology was developed in Israel.
Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel.
The technology for AOL Instant Messenger was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.
A new acne treatment developed in Israel, the ClearLight device, produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free, narrow-band blue light that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct - all without damaging surroundings skin or tissue.
An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale solar-powered and fully functional electricity-generating plant, in southern California's Mojave desert.
Who spread the early christian belief outside Israel?
Right after the Ascension of Christ in 29 AD. The Apostles would have carried the message far and wide and start 1st century churches.
The first Christian communities outside of Jerusalem appeared in Antioch, Ephesus, Corinth, and the political center of Rome. The original church communities were founded by apostles and numerous other Christians, soldiers, merchants, and preachers in northern Africa, Asia Minor, Arabia, Greece, and other places. Over 40 churches were established by 100, many in Asia Minor.Paul was responsible for bringing the Christianity to new parts of the world such as Ephesus, Corinth, Philippi, and Thessalonica. By the end of the 1st century, Christianity had already spread to Rome and to various cities in Greece, Asia Minor and Syria. Major cities such as Rome, Ephesus, Antioch and Corinth served as foundations for the expansive spread of Christianity in the post-apostolic period. Christianity spread quickly throughout Asia Minor.
Is Israel a first world country?
It depends on how you define your terms.
Most people use the term "First World Country" to refer to a country that has a modern economy and is developed (as opposed to developing). Israel is one of the few post-colonial countries that has become a developed country. South Korea is another. As a result, these places are called First World Countries.
However, during the Cold War, the terms First World, Second World, and Third World applied to distinct parts of the globe. First World referred to Anglo-America and Western Europe, the NATO countries. Second World referred to the Soviet Union and its allies. The Third World referred to most of the countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, which served as the proxy war battlegrounds. According to this definition, Israel is a Third World Country since it lies in the Third World region.
What body of water is israel located near?
The Dead Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Gulf of Aqaba. See also:
What religions began in Israel?
Ancient Israel was a theocratic kingdom and so the predominant religion and the religion of the state was the religion of the Israelites. It is often considered to be Judaism although modern Orthodox Judaism is different from this religion because the debates and discussions of the Talmud and subsequent works had not yet been written.
There were probably minorities of Canaanite Polytheists, Egyptian Polytheists, and Hellenic Polytheists in and around the Ancient Kingdoms of Israel.
Not exactly.
The entire region was called Israel up until the year 70 CE. From 70 CE to 1948 CE, it was called Palestine, named by the Romans, after Israel's enemy (the Phillistines).
After 1948, it was partitioned into two separate countries, called Israel and Palestine; however, the people who today are called "Palestinians" did not accept the partition, and two wars later, Israel had control of the areas that were designated "Palestine".
Where are the twelve tribes of Israel today?
The tribe of Judah are represented through the modern Jewish people of today to some extent but not entirely as people of other tribes & nations have married and converted into the religion since the diaspora.
10 tribes were taken as slaves by some King from the east and since that time the knowledge of their existence and whereabouts has all but been forgotten. Some theories suggest that the Pashtun/Pathan ethnic group of Pakistan & Afghanistan are the lost tribes of Israel, others have suggested the slavs of eastern Europe and even some of the Native Americans. But nothing's ever been proven without a doubt.
Answer The Twelve Tribes of Israel sect was founded in 1968 by Dr. Vernon "Prophet Gad" Carrington. It is the most liberal of the Rastafarian orders and members are free to worship in a church of their choosing. Each member of this sect belongs to one of the 12 Tribes (or Houses), which is determined by birth month and is represented by a color. The Standard Israelite calendar begins in April. Bob Marley was from the tribe of Joseph. HAILE SELLASSIE from the tribe of Judah.
Answer According to Josephus"...the entire body of the people of Israel remained in that country; wherefore there are but two tribes in Asia and Europe subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond Euphrates till now, and are an immense multitude, and not to be estimated by numbers." -Antiquities of the Jews (Book XI Chapter 5 Section 2)
Note that when Josephus mentioned "Asia", he was referring to Asia Minor or modern-day Turkey. In general, he made a semi-veiled reference to the Ten Tribes of Israel being located in Parthian territory, Rome's arch rival across the Euphrates River, the de facto border between the two empires. He did not need to say "Parthia". Everyone during his time knew what he was referring to in the same way people living in California today would not need a description of what is "east of the Mississippi River" or what is "south of the Rio Grande". Yet, for those who understand the extreme fluidity of the Middle East and Central Asia, it begs the question: "Who are the Parthians today?" ...or rather: "Where did the descendants of Parthia and related Saka-Scythian peoples go in later centuries?"
The tribes of Israel can be located today through the old testament. Deuteronomy 28 gives a list of 53 curses that explain the events that would befall the Israelites (only) in time. Of the events described in the bible we would have to look at two possible nations of people in the world today who's history fits the description given in Deuteronomy 28, The Native Americans and the Africans, as they are the only two cultures in the world who fit the following curses on a biblical scale (i.e. millions upon millions of their people were affected for an extended period of time):
Deut 28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
Deut 28: 38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
Deut 28:48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck until he have destroyed thee.
Deut 28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
Deut 28:64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
Deut 28:68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
The Native American population only fits so many of the curses listed in Deuteronomy and the book of Leviticus 26. The African population fits every one of the 53 curses outlined in Deuteronomy 28 and all curses listed in Leviticus 26. The estimated time of the African diaspora began with the year 70 A.D. and continued for 1,810 years until the close of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the year 1888.
The exact whereabouts of all 12 tribes are unknown, the most that can be known at this time is that all 12 tribes are scattered throughout the world. Due to a bible prophecy in Genesis 49:19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. The only two possibilities in terms of identifying the tribe of Gad in modern times are the populations of South Africa (Aparteid), and Haiti (Haitian revolution). The tribe of Judah is believed by some to be the African American population amongst other slave descendants scattered throughout the Americas. Levi as is known is scattered among the other 11 tribes. Ephraim is believed to be in the regions of Morocco and Nigeria. The 12 tribes of Israel are black African people who were brought into slavery world wide.
Answer:
The above answer is an example of sheer speculation, and is laughable from a Jewish point of view. While a relatively small number of African tribes may be descended from Israelites, in the absence of a Jewish tradition to that effect the matter becomes moot and a mere curiosity. But the vast majority of Africans, and also the entirety of the Native American population, are unquestionably not from the Ten Tribes. The lack of a connection between them and the Jewish people has been shown through DNA analyses.
The bulk of the descendants of the Ten Tribes are either as yet unidentified, or scattered in places such as Afghanistan.
The Tribes of Israel which are known today are the Jewish people. The great majority of Jews today, some 80% or so, are descended from the tribe of Judah (plus converts and descendents of converts). The remaining 20% include Levites (from the tribe of Levi), Cohanim (also a part of the Levites), and a small percentage from every one of the remaining tribes. (When the Ten Tribes were carried off into Assyria and didn't return, a few of them had already mixed into the tribe of Judah before that, through marriage. See for example the Talmud, Pesachim 4a.)
As to the identity of the exiled Ten Tribes themselves, for the most part (because of lack of a continuous tradition in this matter) we can only speculate, and usually we don't spend time on it.
How many cities named Israel are there?
In Israel, typically, a municipal township will gain the formal title of a "city" if it has at least 20,000 residents.
Out of the approximately 194 municipal townships in Israel (as of several years ago...), only 57 are considered "cities" by the governmental authorities.
Important to keep in mind, though, if comparing to the situation in other countries. Each country defines the "city" standard based on a different number of residents..So, for example, in Switzerland, a municipality would need to have at least 10,000 residents to be deemed a city.
How did Arabs feel about the establishment of the state of israel?
The Arabs in general were greatly saddened by the creation of the State of Israel, because they believed that the land that had physically belonged to the Palestinian Arabs for as long as they could remember and should have been theirs for inheritance. In their minds, it did not make sense that a group of German, Polish, French, English, and Russian speaking people should claim land that their ancestors had not even visited for centuries. Even by the time of Israel's Declaration of Statehood, less than half of the land within the UN proscribed borders of Resolution 181 was owned by Jews. Therefore, the idea of Jewish State being even more physically expansive than the land already taken was alarming.
Who was the chaldean king that captured Jerusalem?
The Assyrian Empire never captured Jerusalem; King Hezekiah of Judah was able to defend the city. This was an anomaly since most parts of Judah, including the #2 city of Lachish, were razed to the ground. The Bible credits Hezekiah's success to a Divine plague which decimated the Assyrian troops gathered outside of Jerusalem. King Sennacherib of Assyria's own documents argue that Jerusalem was allowed to be independent in order to taunt Hezekiah and force him to pay Sennacherib an exorbitant tribute. The Assyrian description makes far less sense since the Assyrians believed in expansionist foreign policy instead of simply reinstating enemy city states.
If you want the name of the Assyrian Leader who led the assault on Jerusalem and the rest of the Kingdom of Judah, that was KING SENNACHERIB.
