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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
Which is closer to Bethlehem Haifa Israel or Ashdod Israel?
Ashdod is closer to Bethlehem than Haifa is.
When is the best time to visit israel?
It depends on what kind of weather you like.
Since the rainy season typically hits during the winter and the heat during the summer can be quite bad, I personally would recommend going to Israel in April or October for the best weather.
How many Thai people in Israel?
Answer 1
I'm not sure, but the Article linked to below may help you.
And I just want to say that they are the kindest people I've ever met.
And they're not treated badly, like what is what written in the article. As a matter of fact, I've asked a thai guy if he would like to go back home and he told me, "No, I like it here."
So the article is a lie.
But I love them because they're very kind and I respect them because they treated me well. I'm from Israel, by the way, and I'm not saying that to defend Israel as I'm Arab. I'm telling you that they're treated as humans and they get paid better than what they get from Thailand, so they love it here
Answer 2
There are between 20,000 and 30,000 Thai Workers in Israel, depending on which source you believe. They are primarily involved in Agricultural Work. There are negligible (if extant) Thai Jews in Israel.
What country on the southwest Mediterranean coast borders the Gaza Strip and the West Bank?
Egypt
Israel
How was the six day war a failure?
From the Arab perspective, it was an abject failure. They lost large swathes of territory, their armies had been soundly defeated, they lost more soldiers individually than Israel did in totality, and it humiliated the Pan-Arabist Movement.
Which nation ruled over Israel at the time of the Hanukkah story?
The Syrian Greeks (also called the Seleucid Empire).
Is Israel a homogeneous country?
No.
Israel is heterogeneous. There are Jews from whole variety of European countries, Arab countries, indigenous peoples, Africans, Indians, and Southeast Asians. The vast majority of Israel's population today is descended from immigrants or the children of immigrants who came sometime in the last 100 years.
The Arab Oil Embargo of 1973.
Do Zionists control Freemasons?
No. The Freemasonic order is remarkably free from control by anyone, and issues of a political or religious nature are especially taboo. Accordingly Freemasonry cannot and does not tell its members either to support Zionism or oppose it. They are free to do either. No Masonic organization has a position on zionism one way or another.
Does religion have any influence on the government of Israel Saudi Arabia and Iran?
While Israel is a Jewish country, the laws are secular. Saudi Arabia and it's laws are 100% Wahhabi fundamentalist. Iran is an Islamist republic which ostensibly has civilian courts but in fact, is dominated by ultraconservative Shiite Mullahs who over rule civilian courts at will.
When was Israel renamed Palestine and by whom and how?
The name of the territory was not called Israel (as a geographic or regional term) until the arrival of the Modern State of Israel in 1948. Initially it was called Canaan or the Southern Levant. It was then named Judea (after the Southern Israelite Kingdom). After the Jewish Insurrection in 70 CE, the Romans renamed the territory Philistia (after the Philistines) which they could do because they administrated it. The Arabs, Ottomans, and other Türks gave the territory different names as provincial indicators. When the British established a Mandate in the region, they named it "Palestine" deriving from the Roman Philistia. All of residents of the region (regardless of religion or ethnicity) began calling themselves Palestinians.
Did Israel have two kingdoms called Canaan and Judah?
No. Scholars now realise that the Israelites were in fact dissident Canaanites who left the coastal cities and settled in the mountainous hinterland, in more or less the same area as the modern West Bank. Over time, they consciously rejected their links with the Canaanites and developed a tradition of being a separate people who arrived by military conquest, as ordained by God.
Biblical tradition says that the Hebrew people were initially united into a single nation of Israel, first under the Judges then under Kings Saul, David and Solomon. However, archaeologists such as Israel Finkelstein say that there was never a united monarchy and that Saul, David and Solomon, if indeed they existed, were only local warlords.
After the time attributed to the United Monarchy there were two kingdoms, known as Israel and Judah. The larger of these, Israel, only lasted three to five centuries and was destroyed by the Assyrians. Israel became known as Samaria, while Judah continued to survive until the Common Era, although almost always under foreign domination.
How did Israel become a nation as per the Holy Bible?
It was part of God's promise to Abraham:
" 'This is My covenant with you: I will make you the father of NOT JUST ONE, but A MULTITUDE OF NATIONS! What's more, I AM changing your name. It will no longer be Abram; now you will be known as Abraham, for you will be the father of many nations.'" (Gen.17:4-5 NLT New Living Translation)
Abraham's descendants are not just Israel, but Ishmael and Esau, for instance... who have become the Arab nations and the nation of Turkey, respectively.
Israel, however, as a nation, are the descendants of Abraham's grandson, Jacob, whose name was changed to "Israel." Israel [Jacob] had twelve sons... all of whom became individual "tribes" or "nations" unto themselves: Danites [descendants of Dan], Gadites [descendants of Gad], Jews [descendants of Judah], etc.. In due course, they all ended up, collectively, in Egypt where in the course of time they became the slaves of the Egyptians.
"...'You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, and they will be oppressed as slaves for four hundred years. But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and in the end they will come away with great wealth.'" (Gen.15:13-14 NLT)
It then turned to God to keep His promise to Abraham, to make the descendants of his son, Isaac, into the special nation through whom the Salvation of all the nations of the world rested.
"...All the families [nations] of the earth will be Blessed [a spiritual promise] through you [the promise of the Christ]." (Gen.12:3 NLT)
And He did it in spectacular fashion through the witness and testimony of Moses and Aaron... and a series of miraculous plagues and signs that destroyed the economy of the Egyptian empire; along with Pharaoh and his armies. The result of it was the collective nation of Israel and a great host of Gentiles [two or three million strong] coming out of Egypt with great wealth and a bright future [pending their Obedience to the voice of their father Abraham's God]:
" 'You have seen what I did to the Egyptians. You know how I brought you TO MYSELF and carried you on eagle's wings. NOW IF YOU WILL OBEY ME and KEEP MY COVENANT, you will be MY OWN SPECIAL TREASURE from among all the nations of the earth; for all the earth belongs to Me. And you will be to Me a KINGDOM OF PRIESTS, MY HOLY NATION.' ..." (Ex.19:4-6 NLT).
"They all responded together, 'We will certainly do everything the LORD asks of us.' So Moses brought the people's answer back to the LORD." (verse 8)
That was the seed that planted the nation of Israel... Abraham's God [Jesus Christ, the Creator LORD God of the Old Testament - John 1:1-3] making good on His Promise to Faithful Abraham.
The lack of faith in people, however, and their failure to do what they agreed to led to other things.
The fault wasn't with the agreement [covenant] with His newly-established nation [the marriage vow Christ established with Israel]... but with a faithless people's inability to keep their sworn oath:
"For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For FINDING FAULT WITH THEM, He saith, 'Behold, the days come,' saith the LORD, 'when I will make a New Covenant with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah [the two estranged and faithless wives of the LORD: "...Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with Me, O House of Israel, saith the LORD." "...which My covenant they brake, although I was an Husband unto them, saith the LORD..."]: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because THEY CONTINUED NOT in My covenant, and I regarded them not,' saith the LORD." (Heb.8:7-9 KJV)
The bottom line of the LORD's [Jesus Christ's] Promise to Abraham, to make of him a great holy nation of priests, rests not in the hands of faithless men... but with HIM -- JESUS CHRIST! The fact of which is that the True "nation of Israel" Christ is speaking of is the coming Kingdom of God in which the True Children and descendants of Abraham are not flesh and blood people -- but FAITHFUL ONES!
"The REAL children of Abraham, then, are ALL THOSE WHO PUT THEIR FAITH IN GOD. What's more, the Scriptures looked forward to THIS TIME when God would accept THE GENTILES, TOO, on the basis of their Faith. God Promised this Good News [gospel] to Abraham long agowhen He said, 'ALL NATIONS WILL BE BLESSED THROUGH YOU.'" (Gal.3:7-8 NLT)
So, the biblical Truth of the matter is, that the "nation of Israel as per the Holy Bible" has not yet come to fruition! But the Promise of the LORD and Abraham's Great Holy Nation of Priests awaits His return with that Nation... the Kingdom or Government of God.
"For you were killed, and your Blood has ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. And you have caused them to become GOD'S KINGDOM AND HIS PRIESTS. And THEY WILL REIGN ON THE EARTH." (Rev.5:9-10 NLT)
"And there will be great weeping and gnashing of teeth, for YOU WILL SEE ABRAHAM, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets WITHIN THE KINGDOM OF GOD, but you will be thrown out. Then the people will come from all over the world to take their places in the Kingdom of God." (Luke 13:28-29 NLT)
Ancient Israel became a nation when the LORD took them by the hand and led them out of their bondage to Egypt. That was the nucleus whereby God planted the "seed of Christ" who would later come in the flesh, to lead others out of their bondage to sin [disobedience to His Commandments - I John 3:4] and the god of this world... to include all the nations [families] of the earth in His promise to Abraham. Not through a blood descendancy through Abraham... but through the same child-like, trusting Faith of Abraham that they would have in Christ's shed BLOOD.
"It was by Faith that Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice when God was testing him. Abraham, who had received God's Promises, was ready to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, though God had promised him, 'Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted.' Abraham assumed that if Isaac died, God was able to bring him back to life again. And in a sense, Abraham did receive his son back from the dead." (Heb.11:17-19 NLT)
So, Israel is still a nation in the making... as per the Holy Bible. It awaits the return of Abraham's God to see its fruition.
"And now that you belong to Christ, you are THE TRUE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM. You are his Heirs, and now all the Promises God gave to him belong to you." (Gal.3:29 NLT)
Abraham's God, Jesus Christ, is still taking Faithful people of all nations by the hand and leading them out of Egypt [sin] and their bondage to it And standing between them and Pharaoh and his armies [Satan and his demons; unclean spirits]. He's preparing them for their future leadership roles in His Kingdom as Kings and Priests, to lead the rest of the nations of the world into the Righteous ways of God.
The nation of Israel is still in the making: as per the Holy Bible.
Is Palestine the capital of Israel?
No. There is no place or city called "Palestinia". Palestine is the name of the country claimed by Arabs on parts of the former Mandate for Palestine in contention or alongside the Jewish State of Israel. The capital of Israel is Jerusalem and the de facto capitals of Palestine are Gaza City and Ramallah.
What is the dome of the rock climate?
depends on the climate, if the outside is cold, inside of the place is hot. and is always the opposite.
