Israel

Israel does not have two capitals. Jerusalem is the only capital of Israel, pursuant to Israel's Jerusalem Law which united the Israeli West Jerusalem with the Occupied East Jerusalem to create one united capital city.

However, because of the Jerusalem Law being ruled illegal by the United Nations Security Council Resolution 478 and the fact that Jerusalem was not envisaged as being Israeli in 1947, no country outside of Israel puts its embassies in Jerusalem and instead recognize Tel Aviv as the capital of Israel (even though all government functions happen in Jerusalem).

They have people, houses, beaches, deserts, mountains, valleys, basically a little bit of everything.

Farms, high-tech industry, grammar schools and universities, gay bars, trains and buses,

radio and TV, cellphones, supermarkets, camels, jet planes, museums, sports stadiums,

mosques, churches, synagogues, babies and old people, foods of over 100 countries.

At the time of the Israelites move into the Promised Land,Moab and Ammon were the nations on the eastern border of the Dead Sea. These two nations were related to the Israelites through Lot, Abraham's nephew (Gen. 19:33-38). The Israelites were not to disposes these people (Deut.2:18-19).

No it's not. It borders Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea.

--mewile95

(lizzie p.)

Israel operates according to the Gregorian Calendar, so, like nearly every other country, it is currently 2012. Jewish observances, however, are regulated by the Jewish Calendar and it is currently 5772 on that calendar.

It depends on the native language of the individual Jew who's doing the calling.

An English speaker calls it "Israel".

The country's official formal name, in Herew, is "Medinat Yisrael", which translates as

"The nation of Israel".

Israel has only one national capital: Jerusalem. The southernmost regional capital in Israel is Beersheba, which is the capital of the Southern District of Israel.

they should be, as they are in covenant with Jehovah God. but as history shows, they always search for a new god/belief that is why they break the covenant that they have with their only God, Jehovah.

There were 3 crusades spanning a few hundred years

Once there was a place called Palestine..It was inhabited by Jews, who made two kingdoms: Israel and Judea. Later the Muslims invaded (634AD), and it remained Muslim until the First world War (as it belonged to the Ottoman Empire until 1917). In 1948, a new country was made called Israel. So the conflict derives from religious, geographical and political reasons. Both the Palestinian muslims and the Jews consider the territory as their own. To make it more difficult, Christianity was born there too. That is why it is the Holy Land for three religions.

After the Muslims lost Jurusalem,they failed to fight back for many years. But the Turks were not only at odds with the Egyptans,but also divided among themselves

At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings--the temple of the LORD and the royal palace-- King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and pine and gold he wanted. So this was payment, this was his pay. "I'm going to give you twenty cities." But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them. "What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?" he asked. And he called them the Land of Cabul, a name they have to this day. You know what Cabul means? Worthlessness. Maybe swamp land or flood land, a bad place. No good. He cheated Hiram. But Hallelujah that's were Jesus came from a good for nothing land to save good for nothing people like us if we would just repent and believe the gospel that he brought.

The city area of Jerusalem is about 125 km2/48 sq mi.

Jerusalem's metropolitan area is about 652 km2 / 252 sq mi.

Jerusalem is the capital of the state of Israel and its largest city.

There are two operative parts to that question. There is the implicit question as to whether a Jewish State is something that should exist. There is the explicit question as to whether the geographical location chosen for this Jewish State is proper for its mission.

1) Why a Jewish State: Herzl explained quite well that the European concept of a nation-state was dependent on the idea that all of the people in any particular nation were of the same ethnic stock and heritage. Jews were branded by this system to be "the Other" and were regarded at best as possible equals and at worse as traitors, spies, thieves, and fifth columns. When the Dreyfus Affair turned out marches in Paris that said "Death to the Jews" on account of a kangaroo court against a particular guiltless Jew, it became clear that the Jew could not be integrated into Europe. After the Holocaust, the strongest proof that the Jew and the European Nation-State were irreconcilable, this view of denigrating "the Other" persists. In Europe, it is now directed at the Muslims since the Jews are not large enough of a threat to the European System. Unlike Muslims, though, which can return to their countries of origin if the discrimination becomes intolerable, the Jews did not have such a place. This is why the Jewish State is necessary. Since it came into existence it has accepted Jewish political refugees from over 50 nations and flown missions at its own expense to rescue Jews from at least 10 nations.

2) Why Israel: Ahad Ha'am explains that the Jewish Soul is intrinsically connected to his history and in the same way that a German-American can never be as properly German as a German in Germany, the People of Israel can never be as properly Jewish if they are not in the Land of Israel. The relics in that land speak to a Jewish sensibility and character. There are also religious reasons as expounded by Rav Avraham Kook which posit that the development of a Jewish State in Israel hastens the arrival of the Messiah. There are additional political reasons why Palestine and not Europe. As explained above, the European Culture is strongly anti-Other and making a Jewish State there would have fostered much more contempt and alienation (ironically).

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Israeli schools tend to follow the educational model common throughout Europe. That means that if you do not complete what in the U.S. would be considered "college level" Calculus, both I and II, by the 11th grade, you don't graduate. In Israel high level grammar and language, what would be considered "AP English," or rather its Hebrew equivalent, is usually completed by the 10th grade. I am not too sure regarding the details, but I do know, in Israel school teachers have very high salaries, with six figures not being uncommon among 10 year veterans. However there is also massive disparity as to which schools get money; if you are talking the schools of ashkenazi Jewish Israelis, the quality of education is some of the best in the world, topped only by France and Switzerland, and even then that is flattering France and Switzerland. However, if you are talking some Sephardi, and Misrahi schools, you have some of the most run down types of schools, you will ever see. In fact, Israel does not even use standardized testing (that is an American phenomenon); like all places in the world outside the U.S.A, Israel uses entrance exams. While not nearly as difficult as the entrance exams of Japan or South Korea where the saying goes "he who sleeps, does not go to college!" the exams are so ridiculously tough, they still give many people nightmares. In fact, Israeli university exams are so tough, most people would rather serve in the army first; the majority of Israelis are more scared of the University entrance exams, than they are of the army.

According to biblical chronology, the two states separated approximately 921 BCE. This is confirmed in 1 Kings and 2 Kings by the king list for the northern kingdom of Israel, which was destroyed by the Assyrians in 722 BCE, a date that has been fixed by historians.

However, there is a growing consensus among scholars that there never was a united monarchy of Israel. Lester L Grabbe (Ancient Israel) expresses the emphatic view is that if indeed there was a United Monarchy, it was not as the Bible pictures it.

The Mediterranean Sea comprises a large part of Israel's western border.