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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.

At the time of King Solomon's death, the people approached his successor, Rechav'am (Rehoboam) and asked him to ease up on their tax burden. When he refused, they broke away under their spokesman, Yerav'am (Jeroboam) and formed a separate kingdom composed of ten of the twelve tribes. Rechav'am was left with the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin. This state of affairs continued throughout the period of the Kings.

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Israel is in the Eastern Hemisphere and it is in the Northern Hemisphere.

Israel is in western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, west of the Jordan river and Jordan (the country), northeast of Egypt, southwest of Syria, and south of Lebanon.

No. Israel follows British Common Law. Levitical Laws have not been government-enforced since the year 70 CE.

In 1947, two Security Council members, the United States and the Soviet Union, reached agreement that Palestine was to be divided. In November, a UN Special Committee on Palestine presented a report to the General Assembly, with a majority advocating division, but a minority advocating a unitary state based on democracy. A two-thirds majority vote was necessary for partition to be supported by the United Nations. After intense pressure by USA and USSR, this two-thirds majority was achieved.

Israel (AKA Jacob), had twelve sons and one daughter. Their names were: Reuven, Shimon, Levi, Yehuda, Dan, Asher, Gad, Naftali, Yisaschar, Zevulun, Yosef, Benyamin and the daughter was Dina

It's closely related to the Hebrew word for "shore."

What is now called the state of Israel belonged to the Ottoman empire, HOWEVER, most of what is now called Israel, during the time of the Ottoman empire, was basically private property. In fact the whole entire country was private property; from, ABOUT the early 19th century, over a period of 100 years, wealthy Ashkenazim bought lands in "Palestine" piece by piece, over time having bought up so much land, so much private property, it could all become a country. This is not impossible; there are corporations, farm corporations whose total land holdings are nearly the size of New England, the WHOLE of New England, which, geographically is larger than Israel. After WWI, the Ottoman empire was destroyed by the British. During WWI the Arabs had a hand in it too, the history having been romanticized in the movie "Lawrence of Arabia," starring Peter O'Toole, Sir Alec Guiness, Omar Sharif, and Anthony Quinn, all Hollywood royalty. No joke; that was quite a cast. See, in the strictest terms, legally, that land was bought lock, stock and Arab, from the Turks. Problem is, the Ottoman empire no longer existed, and the Arabs did not recognize them as a country. On the Israeli side of things, many ashkenazi land owners were abusive towards their workers, causing many Arabs to riot. The reason the state of Israel was viewed as European colonialism, was because it did indeed ressemble a colonial operation, a bunch of European Jews bossing around their olive skin, nonwhite local workers (the Arabs). Very much so, the foundations of Israel had all the qualities of a colonialist operation, a bunch of whites bossing around brown people. See, Ottoman rule was notoriously cruel, and oppressive, so their authority was only recognized only from the force and power they wielded, not command of respect. That meant, that the Arabs viewed all financial transactions of the Ottoman empire as criminal activity. Furthermore the Arab tribes were squabling among themselves, as centuries of illiteracy had taken a once largely well-educated and civilized people, to a people, that had degenerated to a midieval existence. I am not exagerating when I say this, but, the truth is, the Arabs of 1,000 A.D. were more educated and sophisticated, than the Arabs from the early 20th century. The collapse of the Arab Caliphates, basically undid everything. The Arabs started out primitive and stupid, but then they became smart, civilized and sophisticated thanks to Islam, however, mistreating the Turks, basically screwing their women while the men bled for them in battle, made the Turks want revenge by taking away their power, so, the Arabs were reduced to "primitive and stupid" status again. For most of the 20th century, they struggled to become sophisticated again. What I'm trying to say is that due to the widespread ignorance and illiteracy they were extremely easy to exploit, cheat, and take advantage of, and many Arabs did not understand the whole notion of a legal contract. The Arabs were either Beduin, or primitive town dwellers eeking out a midieval, miserable existence; gone was the culture and sophistication of the golden era of the Islamic empire of the Arabs (the caliphates). Again most of the 20th century, was a struggle to get that back, many Arab academics argue that they are still struggling to get it back. The wars against Israel were unsuccessful, because the early state of Israel was slightly better organized than they were. Remember that between the lack of education, the widespread illiteracy, the British seeking to exploit them and on top of that the tribal blood feuds, there wasn't exactly any unity, or sense of order. The bitterness between different alliances of Beduin nomads, caused the division of the Arabian peninsula; the tribal alliances of the north called themselves "Iraq," the Beduin tribal alliances of the Levant called themselves "Syria" and "Jordan" respectively, and because the Beduin were under forced unification by the Al-Saud, the defacto hitmen of the British empire in the Arabian peninsula, once all tribes were successfully unified, the Beduin of the deep desert called themselves Saudi Arabia, the tribes with no power, the weaker ones got the scraps, and called themselves "Beduin," "Oman," "Qatar" and "Kuwait." Saudi, Iraqi, Syrian and Jordanian Arabs, generally look down on Persian Gulf, Omani and Yemeni Arabs. Gulf, Omani, and Yemeni Arabs are the "losers" of the Arabian peninsula; those Arabs, descend from Beduin tribes that were "weaklings" and "couldn't fight worth a damn" so they "got the left overs," lands that no one wanted. In the end as we all know the Persian Gulf Arabs got the last laugh (because of the oil), however Omani and Yemeni Arabs weren't so lucky. In some ways, the state of Israel was a direct result of the political chaos that followed the destruction of the Ottoman Empire. There was no law, order, or respect, everyone scrambled for the lands they wanted (or were powerful enough to hold on to), and, the true losers of the squable, in the end, were the Gulf Arabs, and Yemenis and Omanis. See the "Palestinians" are in fact part of the tribal alliance that makes up the modern country of Jordan. Arab history 101; You have Ishmael, and his 12 sons, and the first 12 Arab tribes. Whereas among the Hebrews, only the patriarchs were allowed to start their own tribes, and no future male descendants were allowed to do the same, the descendants of Ishmael caused a horrible mess. How can I explain this? Jacob had 12 sons, one of them named Judah. All male children born to Judah from his wives and concubines, belong to the family of Judah, and then, the male grand children of Judah, grand children born from the various wives of Judah's children, become the CLAN of Judah. Pretty soon there are so many they are not a family, or a clan, but a TRIBE. The 12 tribes together, formed the nation of Israel. However, only the 12 patriarchs, were allowed to give their name to a group of people. With the Ishmaelites it was different; every man from the line of Ishmael who fathered enough sons started calling himself a "tribe." King David fathered hundreds of children, but there is no "Tribe of David." David, was a direct descendant of Judah, a member of the tribe of Judah, however as I said the Hebrews never allowed the tribes to branch off the way the Ishmaelites did. So why did the Ishmaelite tribes branch off? It had something to do with constant squabling among the brothers; bitterness and or arrogance on the part of one brother made him say to his other brother "screw you; you're not the Sheikh! I'm starting my own tribe!" See, the ancient Hebrews never did that, although plenty of men within a given tribe, be it the tribe of Levi, or Manasseh, or Benjamin, or Judah, or Naphtali, whoever, all may have had more than one wife, and fathered many children, branching off was strictly forbiden by Hebrew law. The patriarchs, and ONLY the 12 patriarchs, had the honor of having tribes of their own. A side effect, a beneficial side effect of the squabling and the chaos though, is that the greed, the ambition of many Arabs, the need to start their own tribes, led to them becoming very numerous. Say you have a Sheikh named Omar, and he beats his son Abdullah on a daily basis while laughing really hard, Abdullah gets angry and he thinks to himself "when I am old enough, I'll show him!" He leaves, with the help of a bunch of similarly dissafected and powerless Arabs, he steals some women, and starts fathering kids. Fifty years later he is the head of a tribe 5,000 fighting men strong, so he then proceeds to attack his father and say "see! and you called me a failure! screw you!" Stories such as those, are common throughout Arab history, and because that pattern of behavior occured ever since, well, basically Ishmael, pretty soon the Arabs became extremely numerous, the descendants of Ishmael I mean. The ancient Hebrews had a greater sense of unity, the monotheism, giving them a sense of "obligation," even if there was abuse within a given family "obligation" forced them to "suck it up" for the "sake of the nation of Israel." However bitter a son, brother, or cousin may have been towards a relative, to the ancient Hebrews branching off into another tribe was unthinkable, whereas with the Arabs it happened practically all the time. As we all know this created problems, as the tendency for men to wish to branch off into their own tribe, is one of the root causes of the messed up politics of the Arabian peninsula. The last king of Saudi Arabia, the one before this one, got in a huge fight with his family, and he became so angry, he thought about starting his own tribe (true story). The idea never materialized; the whole Al-Saud clan has so much money, they've got a corrupt version of "checks and balances." The United States has not had a government collapse, because of the checks and balances triangle; congress can't do some things without the president's approval, while the president can't do something without the supreme court, while the supreme court can't do anything without congress and so on. In Saudi Arabia, there is a sort of "checks and balances" power triangle within the Al-Saud; they WANT to kill each other, trust me, they hate one another, problem is each branch of the Al-Saud is so powerful, inter tribal war would be catastrophic both to their personal fortunes, not to mention the world's oil supply. To make sure, they don't kill each other, the U.S. military is stationed there. Have fun in Israel!

The name of Israel comes from Jacob son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham, Jacob is another word or name for Israel. Jacob had 12 sons and those 12 sons represent the 12 tribes of Israel, in other words the nation of Israel started with the birth of Jacob and the promise that God (YHWH) made to Abraham. In time the Jews invaded the land of canaan wich wasn't a nation it was just a region with different civilizations scattered all around it after they defeated all these civilizations they established in the region and then Israel as a nation was born, so you can say that the first nation established in the canaan region was Israel wich then was divided in two kingdoms, in the north side was the kingdom of Israel and in the south side was the kingdom of Juda wich made the nation of Israel.

The Dead Sea. Lowest Point in the World.

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Another contributor sharpened the point a bit:

The shore of the Dead Sea is the lowest point on earth that's not under water.

People with an Israeli passport or an Israeli stamp/visa in their passport, are denied access to the UAE. If you go to Emirates.com (UAE's wealthy national carrier), you'll see that upon booking the code TLV (Tel-Aviv Ben Gurion) isn't even listed. Though the UAE does not want people in relation with Israel to enter their country, even if they've just visited, there are ways Israelis or people who have visited Israel can enter the UAE. Israeli's may have multiple passports (for example a US passport additional to his Israeli passport). Jews in general may go to Dubai, anyway there is no way to figure out someone's religion.

Israel is divided into 6 districts (and the Territories) called Mekhozot (מחוזות): the North District, the Haifa District, the Central District, the Tel Aviv District, the Jerusalem District, and the South District.

israel is a state ran by democracy, which means theres a government, which in israel is called "the knesset", the highest rank in the israeli government is a prime minister, the prime minsiter is Binyamin Netanyahu.

The name "Israel" comes from the bible, and it was called that, among other names, when the Jews lived there before and during Roman times.

When they were forcibly exiled, and the Turkish empire took control of the land after the dark ages, Israel was called the Turkish for "Palestine" and the land continued to have that name, and be called so, by most people. The Jews never stopped calling it Israel.

Since its declaration of independance in '48 the land has been officially called Israel, but before then it was a disposessed wasteland owned by no particular peoples and with no sovereign state.