Israel

Because it was promised by God. He promised it to the Israelites (Genesis 26:1-5).

Answer:

Because God saw the Israelites were suffering in Egypt (Exodus ch.1). That is why He gave them the Promised Land (Exodus ch.3) and called them His people.

• From the 2nd Sun. of Mar. to the last Sun. of Mar., Rome (UTC+1) is 6 hours ahead of Chicago (UTC-5).
• From the last Sun. of Mar. to the last Sun. of Oct., Rome (UTC+2) is 7 hours ahead of Chicago (UTC-5).
• From the last Sun. of Oct. to the 1st Sun. of Nov., Rome (UTC+1) is 6 hours ahead of Chicago (UTC-5).
• From the 1st Sun. of Nov. to the 2nd Sun. of Mar., Rome (UTC+1) is 7 hours ahead of Chicago (UTC-6).

6 AM CST (Chicago time Nov-Mar) =

7 AM CDT (Chicago time Mar-Nov) =

1 PM CET (Rome time Oct-Mar) =

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The humidity in Tel Aviv varies throughout the year, as seen below, but the effect of humidity is different according to the temperature. The hotter it gets and more humid, the less comfortable it becomes.

Following are average temperatures for Tel Aviv on every month of the year*:

January

Average Temperatures: 10-17 Centigrade = 49-63Fahrenheit

Average Humidity Level: 52-82%

February

Average Temperatures: 10-18 Centigrade = 50-64 Fahrenheit

Average Humidity Level: 49-85%

March

Average Temperatures: 11-19 Centigrade = 53-67 Fahrenheit

Average Humidity Level: 50-82%

April

Average Temperatures: 14-23 Centigrade = 58-73 Fahrenheit

Average Humidity Level: 49-80%

May

Average Temperatures: 17-25 Centigrade = 63-77 Fahrenheit

Average Humidity Level: 55-82%

June

Average Temperatures: 21-28 Centigrade = 69-81 Fahrenheit

Average Humidity Level: 60-84%

July

Average Temperatures: 23-29 Centigrade = 73-85 Fahrenheit

Average Humidity Level: 62-83%

August

Average Temperatures: 24-30 Centigrade = 75-86 Fahrenheit

Average Humidity Level: 60-82%

September

Average Temperatures: 22-29 Centigrade = 72-85 Fahrenheit

Average Humidity Level: 57-80%

October

Average Temperatures: 19-27 Centigrade = 66-81 Fahrenheit

Average Humidity Level: 53-82%

November

Average Temperatures: 15-23 Centigrade = 58-74 Fahrenheit

Average Humidity Level: 47-79%

December

Average Temperatures: 11-19 Centigrade = 52-63 Fahrenheit

Average Humidity Level: 51-82%

cited from: http://www.israel-travel-tips.com/en/78/cities/Tel%20Aviv/Tel%20Aviv%20weather

they never did, many thousands of years ago, Jews were held in Egypt by Pharaoh as slaves, at that time, no one occupied Israel. So after the Jews escaped they went to the land of Israel. A while after Arabs came to the middle east and killed all the Jews in Israel deleting the Jews history, the Jews fought and came back to Israel and it was taken away again and this continued, in 1890 the Jews were also kicked out which also deleted the history of them. In the 19's the UN later gave Israel to the Jews and Israel become a state in 1948.

So that means the Jews had Israel first and the Arabs don't have the right to try and take Israel away from them.

• The Jews were never held by the Pharaoh as slaves. They came to Egypt as refugees when the prophet Joseph (Yusuf), son of Jacob, was minister of finance in Egypt. They were enjoying their stay in Egypt to the extent that when they escaped Egypt they had enough gold to make the cow of gold that they worshiped in absence of Moses.
• The land of Palestine is called as such historically even in Greek history books and was never called Israel as claimed above. Israel is a second name of prophet Jacob.
• Palestine land was never empty from people especially that most of their lands are fertile and good for agriculture besides their good harbors. Could you believe that a land is empty while on the boarders of the Ancient Egyptian civilization lands.
• Arabs didn't come to the middle East. They are already an original part of the middle East even before the time of Prophet Abraham (or Ibrahim in Arabic).
• when Arabs (or Muslims) took control of Palestine, Jews were very little minority while the majority were Christians. No single Jew was killed by Muslims when they got control of the lands. Simply because they didn't fight. Christians agree to give the church key to the Caliph Omar on condition they guarantee the freedom of worship and it was.
• How the Arabs deleted the history of the Jews in Palestine. If this is correct could you explain why didn't also delete the history of the Christians?. if true, then how they deleted it? and if really deleted then how do you know there was something and was deleted?
• Did you hear about Muslims killing any civilian in any country the took control of. Read the history about Muslims in Spain.
• check the history to see how Sultan Abdel Hamid of the Ottoman empire gave refugee to the Jews expelled from Spain when Christians got control of it. This explains why relatively there many Jews in Morocco. How claimed that they were killed again?
• in 1948, the UN didn't give Palestine to the Jews. UN agreed to partition Palestine between the Palestinian original people and the Jews who mainly immigrated from Europe to Palestine.
• Check the history of Palestine and the records of the Jewish immigration waves that came from all over the world to know who are the original people.
• Despite the above, the call is for all people living now in these lands to live together in love and peace under one country and one flag with equal rights to all its inhabitants irrelevant to their religion, culture, or language. Otherwise, no other solution except the partition into two independent states.

It is the site of both the First (Solomon's) Temple and the Second Temple. However, it is not the Temples that made Jerusalem holy, it is the location in which they were built, the Temple Mount, that is holy.

Answer:

Jerusalem city is the eternal holy city not only for Jews but also for Christians and Muslims.

First, the Middle East includes Israel and the people of Cyprus like Israel more or less, so the antagonism is in the Middle East countries other than Israel and Cyprus. While this is still over 97% of the people, it is worth clarifying. Additionally, even in countries where the majority of citizens and even the governments hate Israel, there are minorities who like Israel or are willing to tolerate Israel for various reasons, usually for military arrangements, Islamic Zionism, Israel's general progressive tendencies vis-à-vis the rest of the Middle East, etc. However, these minorities usually do not vocalize their opinions out of fear of being beaten and brutalized by the thugs who "enforce" Anti-Zionist opinions.

However, the reasons why Middle Easterners do not like Israel include:

1) International Legal Violations: Israel has engaged in a number of policies in violation of international law, such as the unification of Jerusalem, the settlements in the West, the annexation of the Golan, etc.. 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.

2) Anti-Semitism: This should be self-evident. The Logic goes thus: Anti-Semites oppose any Jewish aspiration to freedom and/or power. Zionism promotes Self-Determination for the Jewish people which is an aspiration to freedom and power. Therefore, Anti-Semites oppose Zionism. Additionally, many people who are Anti-Semitic see Jews as running some sort of international cabal to strip power from everyone else. Equipped with a country, who knows what further havoc Jews could cause.

3) Palestinian Indigenous Rights: The indigenous Palestinians and their descendants are aggrieved that people from abroad would come to the land that the parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents had lived on and worked for as long as they could remember and buy that land from the Ottomans without consulting them. Moreover, these people had a particular agenda to establish a state on the land they called their own. Understandably, the Palestinians, and those who support them, are opposed to the Zionist project for these emotional and political considerations. Additionally, the Israeli Military Occupation of the West Bank Territories and the Blockade of Gaza represents a true legal and humanitarian crisis for Supporters of an Independent Palestine and the Palestinian People.

4) Arab Nationalism: Arab Nationalism as a movement crystallized in the 1930s and came to the political fore in the 1960s. Arab Nationalism is a movement that seeks to create an Arab State or multiple Arab States based on common cultural and historical markers. This movement began to make a tether between Arab cultural identity and Islamic religious identity. This was especially keen in places with large non-Muslim communities because those communities typically worked closely with the European colonizers seen to be repressing the Arab identity. Zionism, which is a movement based on a European cultural identity and a Jewish religious identity was antithetical to the Arab Nationalist movement ideologically and claims territory that Arab Nationalists also claim putting them at odds politically.

5) Islamism: Islamism, the political philosophy that Shari'a or Islamic Religious Law should be the grounds upon which a state is ruled, strenuously opposes any Western-style of government because it does not uphold Islamic moral standards (for example: gays and haram meats are permitted). Israel, as a secular, Westernized State is opposed for this reason. Israel, specifically, is also hated by Islamists for two reasons unique to Israel. The first is that the Jews are the ones in power. In the Islamist conception, only Muslims should be in power in the State and any non-Muslim minorities should have a secondary role if they should have one at all. Second, Israel is situated in territory which used to be governed by Muslims for nearly 1300 years (with a century-long break under the Crusader States). As a result, Israel is considered a usurpation of historical Islamic authority whereas European countries (for example) never had Islamic authority before.

It is worth noting that not all Muslims are opposed to the State of Israel and there are several Islamic arguments in favor of the State of Israel, such as those advocated by Sheikh Hadi Palazzi, Irshad Manji, and Tawfik Hamid. None of these individuals, though, is an Islamist. Of the Muslims who oppose the State of Israel, not all of them are Islamist either, many are Arab Nationalists or have no general political affiliation and oppose the State of Israel for one of the many other reasons listed here. Finally, Islam/Muslim/Islamic is the religion and Islamism/Islamist is the political philosophy; the two are different.

6) Anti-Colonialism: While Arab Nationalism was an anti-colonial movement, the general principles of the anti-colonialism led to a rejection of States based on European values in non-European locations with a large number of non-European (ethnically speaking) inhabitants. This sentiment was felt most strongly towards (South) Rhodesia, South Africa, and what would become Israel. Anti-colonialists believe that Asians and Africans had the right to Self-Determination pursuant to their cultures. However, Rhodesian and South African institutions could and did eventually convert to being African nations (in the true sense of the term) because their racist infrastructure could be reformed. Zionism is by default a government by the Jews and would cease to be Zionist if the Jews were taken out of the leadership position. Thus Zionism catches the ire of anti-colonialists.

7) Political Antagonism: If State A has a lot of wars with State B, State A and B will develop a mutual animosity towards each other and their raisons d'être. There are a number of politically independent or partially independent Peoples and States that came into conflict with the Halutzim (Jewish Pioneers in the British Mandate of Palestine), the Haganah et al. (Jewish Militias), and Tzahal (the Israeli Army).

8) Non-Jewish Holy Sites: Since the Holy Land does not only have Jewish Holy Sites, but also has Christian and Muslim Holy Sites, there is opposition in these communities to Jews having a physical monopoly and control of these holy sites. Therefore, these communities opposed the idea of a Jewish Nation State that could do exactly that.

West Bank

Palestine is made of numerous rugged hills with relatively arable land. The Judean and Samarian Highlands form a central backbone that runs through Jerusalem and makes the country difficult to traverse. The slopes in the east of the territory, along the Jordan River, drop precipitously to meat the below-sea-level-river.

Overall, it is relatively sandy (if compared to America), but it is much more verdant than much of the Middle East. because of the local Jordan River and rainy season in the winter.

Gaza Strip

The Gaza Strip is completely flat and urban with a number of ports along the Mediterranean cost. It is much less green than the West Bank and the high population density has led to a lack of major agriculture in the area. The water is relatively polluted, especially the sea off of the coast.

According to the Book of Joshua, the brilliant military commander, Joshua, led the Israelites to conquer Canaan, with the help of God.

The strong consensus of modern historians is that the Israelites never conquered Canaan, that they were themselves rural Canaanites who migrated peacefully from the region of the rich coastal cities into the hitherto sparsely populated hinterland. Lawrence E. Stager says ('Forging an Identity', in The Oxford History of the Biblical World) of the thirty one cities said to be taken by Joshua and the Israelites, twenty have been plausibly identified with excavation sites. Of these, only Bethel and Hazor show evidence of cultural discontinuity consistent with an invasion, and it is even debated whether the destruction of Hazor XIII was as late as that of Late Bronze Age Bethel. There was no conquest of Canaan - the story of Joshua and his military genius evolved centuries later, to provide the Hebrew people with a glorious past.

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Answer 1

While Jews throughout the world can move to Israel and gain automatic citizenship, non-Jews do not have such a right. The minor exception to this rule is Palestinians who were born to Palestinian parents who have Israeli citizenship.

Answer 2

-- The question asks whether non-Jews can be citizens, not whether citizenship is automatic.

The correct answer is that significant fractions of Israel's population are Muslim citizens, Christian citizens, or Druze citizens, and that other small portions of the population are Buddhist citizens, Hindu citizens, Baha'i citizens, and atheist citizens, among others. All citizens of Israel have voting rights, and Muslims, Christians, and Druze representatives have been elected to seats in Israel's national parliament.

There is in fact a difference between Jewish Israeli citizenship and Arab Israeli citizenship. All Jewish citizens of Israel are required to do military service. Arab Muslim citizens are not. (There are other Arab citizens who are also required to do military service or may volunteer.)

Regarding "automatic citizenship", note that such a practice is virtually non-existent in the world, even in the US, the UK, etc. Immigration and citizenship in virtually all countries is limited, and subject to quotas and qualifications. (It is curious to note that other nations do have automatic citizenship for a certain ethnic group, such as Poland for Poles, Lithuania for Lithuanians, Armenia for Armenians and so on but nobody argues against these laws and calls them unfair.)

Jews have been citizens of their home country for four thousand years, but in some periods of history have lacked access to that country. In 1948, the home country of the Jews was restored in Israel, and it welcomes its rightful citizens from all of the other places in the world where they're not wanted.

-- The statement that non-Jews are prohibited from purchasing land in Israel is false, and the statement that non-Jews have limited educational opportunities in Israel because they are non-Jews is false.

-- The non-Jewish Palestinian population in Israel lives throughout the country,

including heavily-ethnic-Arab towns and villages in Israel, where they predominate in the education, employment, commerce. and culture of those Israeli towns and villages. Those who are Israeli citizens vote in their towns and villages during elections.

Note also that non-citizen, non-Jewish, non-resident Palestinians have brought land-use cases against Israel's government, in Israeli courts, and have won their cases.

Note also that although there are large numbers of Palestinians in Israel, both citizens and non-citizens, there are no 'refugee camps' in Israel.

I'd say David but it could be Solomon

Answer:

Since the question says "become," the answer is King David.