Israel

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They are patrilineal descendants of King Solomon himself, but, additionally, members of the tribe of Judah escaped to Ethiopia, where they established a community there. We know they are of the line of king David, because genetic tests have conclusively proven that not only do they descend from Hebrews, many Ethiopian Jews in fact have up to 30% semitic blood in some instances. Ethiopian Jews have a significant chunk of Hebrew, but that is because during the rise of Islam, some of the Jews in what is now Saudi Arabia, ended up in Yemen AND Ethiopia, so, the community there got a fresh infusion of Hebrew semitic blood.

It depends. There are many micro-climates despite being a small country. The north can be very green, the South includes the Negev and Arava deserts.

Also, this region of the world sees winter and spring rains that make everything bloom in full color, but by the time summer comes things become very dry and dusty. Its very dramatic.

Israel has dedicated significant resources to planting forests throughout the country. As a result, Israel was the only country internationally to have a net increase in the amount of forest entering the 21st century. The organization "Keren Kayemet L'Yisrael" is the main organization involved in afforestation.

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Israel gained independence from the British who were the colonizers of the Mandate of Palestine.

However, most of what the Israelis term the "Israeli Independence War" was fought against the Palestinians, Jordanians, Egyptians, Syrians, Lebanese, and Iraqis. (Along with extra regiments from Yemen and Saudi Arabia.)

United Israel ceased to exist during King Solomon's reign. He married women from cultures that worshipped idols. In order to please these women and to also create political and economical advantages with the lands from which they had come, King Solomon raised temples to idols in United Israel. The first of the ten commandments of the theocracy of Israel prohibited this very thing with curses to follow. Israel began to worship these idols and to kill their first born sons in fires offered to an idol named "Moloch." God punished him by reducing the size of his kingdom.

Ten of the twelve tribes of United Israel broke away from King Solomon's ruling tribe - the tribe of Judah. One tribe "Benjamin" remained loyal to the government of Judah (Southern Kingdom). The rest seceded and left Jerusalem which was the capital of United israel, to Judah and Benjamin. They formed their own government and this new coalition is what was termed "Samaria" (The Northern Kingdom). They refused to worship at the temple in Jerusalem and created their own religion and elected their own king.

From this point on, the ten tribes in the Bible are known as "Israel" and the two tribes in Jerusalem are known as "Judah." They had separate governments with each maintaining a lineage of a royal family.

Judah's last legitimate king with the kingdom present on its own land is King Jeconiah also known as Jehoiachin of David's line. He was eighteen years old when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, besieged Jerusalem and captured him, his family and ten thousand residents of Jerusalem and imprisoned them in Babylon. There remained in Jerusalem a few maimed, poor and undesirable folk. Over these, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Mattaniah, the captured king's paternal uncle, king in his stead. He changed his name from Mattaniah to Zedekiah. He was 21 years old. Zedekiah secretly sent messengers to Egypt to ask Pharaoh help him stage a coup against Nebuchadnezzar. Egypt had recently lost territories to the conquests of Nebuchadnezzar and it was thought that with their alliance, Judah could throw off the control of Babylon.

When Nebuchadnezzar heard of the plot, he besieged Jerusalem again, for two years to break its will by cutting off food. Zedekiah tried to escape from Jerusalem through a back door and was arrested. Egypt came briefly and snuck away (Jer 37:6&5). Zedekiah was taken to Nebuchadnezzar where all his children were massacred infront of him and then his eyes were plucked out so that this is the last thing he saw. He was carried off prisoner to Babylon and the city burned behind him in approximately 607 BC. (2 Kings chapters 24 & 25)

The last king of Jerusalem with a resident government in the land is Mattaniah, son of Jehoiakim and Hamutal.

Do remember that Samaria was living separately under their own king. However before all of the above happened to Judah, In approximately 701 BC, Sennacherib, king of Assyria had attacked the fortified cities of Judah, laying siege on Jerusalem, but failed to capture it. In 721 BC, the Assyrian army moved instead on and captured the Israelite capital at Samaria and carried away the citizens of the northern kingdom into captivity in Assyria. The story of the fall of Samaria is told in 2 kings chapter 17 of the Bible. The last king of Samaria with a resident government in the land was Hoshea the son of Elah. He was besieged for three years before the city finally fell.

The book of Matthew chapter 1:1-17 reveals that Jeconiah, the deposed king of Judah went into the captivity with his sons. One of his sons "Salathiel" is recognised as the legal heir, though in captivity, to the line of Judah ( verses 11&12).

Jeconiah's line had a curse placed on it in Jer 22:30 thus: " Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah." Although Jeconiah would have descendants, God declares the entire line ineligible to sit upon the throne of David.

Jesus through his adoptive father Joseph is traced within this line. We can now see that as the promised messiah in the line of David, he can only be adopted by Joseph because of this curse. Jesus's birth is a virgin one for this reason. His true father is God.

However there is a second lineage mentioned in the gospels which is believed to be of Mary the mother of Jesus.

The Bible provides the lineage of Heli, Mary's father, in Luke 3:23, 31 as follows, "And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, (31) Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David." God's eternal promise to David was fulfilled through Heli's genealogy. Since he was Mary's father, Joseph was considered to be his son-in-law. As a result, Mary was a descendent of David, but not from David through Solomon. She descended from David through Nathan.

Because of the sins of Solomon and his descendants, we not only eliminate him from the paternal line to the Messiah because of the virgin birth but also from the maternal line through Heli. Finally, it becomes clear that the Messiah would be both the Son of God paternally and the Son of David through Heli, Mary's father.

Jesus unites the divided children of Abraham in himself through his death at the cross. His arms are stretched out on the cross to both sides. Their division kills him on the cross but his resurrection raises Israel and Judah as one in his body.

The only possibility of a united Israel is in the resurrected body of a messiah who was prophesied and that he would bear the disagreement of Israel and Judah in his own body by paying with his own blood. Whoever believes in him is restored to the new Jerusalem in his body, the body of Christ. Whoever rejects his peace solution is left to the old disagreement. There is no Israel without its prophesied mediator.

Finally to answer the question, the last king of United Israel (the "elect") was and is and will always remain King Jesus (Joshua in the Hebrew) son of God and son of Man.

It is not quite clear what the term "ruler" means, but assuming it refers to the Prime Minister, who is the Chief Executive of the State of Israel, he is chosen in the following way:

After the the Knesset convenes after an election, the President of Israel (who is largely a ceremonial figure) directs the leader of the party most capable of assembling a parliamentary coalition (usually the party with the most seats in the Knesset) to form a governing coalition (61 or more of the 120 seats). That party leader will then have a few weeks to submit proposals to other parties to form a coalition. If he is able to create a governing coalition, the leader of the party becomes the Prime Minister. If he fails in this task and the leader of a different party is able to create a governing coalition, the President will appoint the leader of that party to become the Prime Minister.

Elections in Israel operate very similar to elections in the UK. They must occur at some point within four years of the previous elections but may be called at any time convenient to the governing coalition within that period. (This is as opposed to the US where elections always occur at the beginning of November and term limits are exactly set.)

Israel is about 75% Jewish and 25% other religions, including Islam and Christianity.

The State of Israel has a population of approximately 8,146,800 inhabitants as of 2014. 75.3% are Jewish (about 6,110,000 individuals), 16% are Muslim (about 1,300,000 inhabitants), while the remaining 8.7% (about 700,000 individuals) include: Christians (2%), Druze (1.5%), Bahai, residents who do not have a religious classification (4%), and family members of Jewish immigrants who were not registered at the Interior Ministry as Jews.

There is no record, tradition, history, evidence, or mesorah that the Children of Israel were ever in bondage in Syria. They were, however, not allowed to emigrate for several decades in the late 20th century.

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The modern State of Israel came into existence in 1948. In 1940, the area where Israel predominantly sits (excluding the Golan Heights) was called the British Mandate of Palestine.

The Mandate of Palestine was not a country, but a colony of the British Empire. What made a mandate different from a colony was that the British had an obligation to help the people living in the territory to form their own government and facilitate independence. In the specific case of the Mandate of Palestine, they were required to do this for the Jews and the Arabs together.

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During the Crusading Era (1099-1291), there were generally two main routes that were followed by outgoing knights and pilgrims. The first route was onlyused prior to 1200. Before 1200, knights leaving western Europe would travel throught the Rhineland in Germany, then head south through the Kingdom of Hungary. Then they would enter the Balkans, and finally Greece. Once in Greece, the crusaders would proceed to the Bosphorus Strait, at Byzantium. There they would be ferried across the Strait by the Byzantines into Asia Minor. Then it was along the coast of Anatolia and into Armenian Cilicia, or, prior to 1143, the County of Edessa. At that juncture, the crusaders took a sharp south and were at Antioch. If they were going to Jerusalem, they proceeded south along the coast. This over-land route remained popular at first because sea travel was seen as difficult. It was easier to transport large numbers of men and materials by means of horse than it was to gather enough ships and brave the Mediterranean. However, that all changed during the Third Crusade. A tragedy occured that would make the over-land route very unpopular, and it was never used again. In 1189, the Holy Roman Emperour Frederick Barbarossa I embarked as the first leader of the Third Crusade to recover Jerusalem, which had been lost in 1187 to the Sultan Salah al Din Yosuf al Ayyubi, or Saladin. One day in 1189, just as Frederick and his army arrived in Armenian Cilicia, having crossed Asia Minor, he decided to take a swim in a local stream and drowned. This catastrophe made the overland route forever unpopular, and Barbarossa was the last man ever to lead his army across the Bosphorus. The new route taken to the Holy Land was the over-sea one. Richard I of England and Philip Augustus of France, both of whom followed Frederick on the Third Crusade, travledby means of the Mediterranean Sea. Richard departed at the port of Marsaillse in France, and Philip traveled from Genoa in Italy. Both fleets stoped at the port city of Messina in Italy, which would become a hub of crusader maritime traffic. From Messina, Richard and Philip proceeded to sail to Acre in Palestine, and there they retook the city from Saladin and began the third crusade again, forever chaning the way be which crusaders would travel to the Holy Land.

Because people can't decide on who god is. Because their believes are different than others. People fight over holly ground and who they believe god is, or what book to read. We are a product of our enviroment. It may be a never ending war. When this war against Allah, Christ, Mohammad, and all the gods and their disciples ends in a world war, then the Jewish may start to get treated as equals. Perhaps then will all men be treated as one. God loves us all, or perhaps there is no god. Who am I to say? Who are you to say? I would tell tell you what I believe, but this is not the forum.

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If by Sephardi Jews you mean Spanish Jews displaced following the Spanish inquisition, they and their descendents constitute somewhat less than 1,500,000 which is 25% of the Jewish population in Israel. But in the wider secular public the divisions run along continental lines with European Jews constituting the largest group at somewhat over 50% and North African Jews and those from the rest of the Middle East and comprising the other half.

It Is Called The Crusades

They're were a total of 9 crusades

Israel was recognized as a state in 1948. The land Israel is on now was part of the land brittian received after WW II. It was given to the Jews for a homeland.

Israel (State of Israel) declared its independence in 1948.

No. They were not happy in the slightest. They actually began an Oil Embargo on all Western countries for the US support of Israel.

The Answer you are looking for is "the United Nations Partition Plan for the Mandate of Palestine".

However, there are two minor errors in the phrasing of this question. The first is semantic: the UN Partition Plan came out of UNGA Resolution 181 which was passed on November 29, 1947, not 1948. Israel declare independence according to the provisions of UNGA Resolution 181 on May 14, 1948, but that was not when the "division" occurred.

The second error is that Palestine was not actively divided. The UN took a map and made a prescriptive judgment about where a Jewish State should be and where an Arab State should be. It would have been binding had both sides agreed, but the Arabs were not interested in allowing for any Jewish State and therefore prevented an agreement from being realized. Therefore, Palestine was not actually divided physically, just potentially. Israel used this window of permissibility to declare statehood in 1948 and Palestine used this to declare statehood in 1988.

Although this is heavily disputed, the areas most often disputed are The West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights.

The West Bank was previously Transjordan, or sometimes referred to as Cisjordan. The Gaza Strip was captured in the 1967 Six Day War and remained Israeli when Egyptian officials did not want to take control over it as part of the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. The Golan Heights were captured from Syria during the same war.

The two country is Israel and Jordan between the west bank.