Israel

Israel has an Amazing history!! You can read book after book on this subject!! As we know, God changed Jacob's name to Israel. A couple hundred years before Christ, the Romans conquered the land. For the next two thousand years, this land was under Roman and then Arab control. Then in the late 1800s a movement called Zionism took place. Randomly, through God's mighty hand, Jews began returning to Israel, after almost 2000 years!! Israel won its independence in 1948. but it wasn't easy from then on. The 6 day war was miraculous, and only through the power of God did Israel survive the Yom Kippur War!!

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Without trying to go into a lot of boring detail . . . individual citizens of Israel (both Jews and Arab Israelis) have the personal freedoms that you would expect if you lived in England, France, Canada, or the USA.

Some of those freedoms include:

• Free and Fair Elections without coercion that are open to all citizens (regardless of ethnicity or religion) above a certain age.
• Complete Freedom of Religion and (in many cases, especially Judaism, Islam, and some forms of Christianity) State supported protection of religious sites and properties
• The Right to have any Marriage (including homosexual marriages) recognized by the State.
• Free and Independent Judiciary that can hear court cases from any citizen and any non-citizen Palestinian
• The Protection from Search and Seizure without a Warrant and of Military actions against the household
• Freedom of Speech and of the Press on all issues (there are some restrictions during wartime, but otherwise)
• The Freedom of Assembly and Protest Peacefully
• Everyone can join the Israeli Army (although only Jews, Druze, and Circassians are required to do so)
• Every citizen has the freedom of movement throughout Israel autonomously and can freely request and Israeli Passport
• Men and Women are allowed to wear whatever clothes they please (except in certain neighborhoods, which are more modest and nude beaches where the dress code is clearer),
• In terms of women's rights:
  • women can petition for divorce,
  • have abortions (without anyone else's consent),
  • can object to any marriage arrangement based on personal desires,
  • have guaranteed equal pay and workplace anti-discriminatory measures,
  • can work in any company facility that may also employ men,
  • are permitted (and oftentimes conscripted) into the Army,
  • report domestic abuse and workplace sexual harassment (without fear),
  • openly declare whatever political or historical views she may hold
  • be romantic or affectionate with her partner in public

Ethiopian Jews in Israel and Arab Israelis have noted discrimination against them, primarily through informal mechanisms, such as failure to hire, fewer government services in minority areas, or other similar actions. These groups have protested vociferously about their lack of rights and Israel, politically, has debated on how to resolve these problems.

The non-citizens under Israeli military occupation, namely the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories do not have many of these rights or have them only at certain times of the day. Primarily, Palestinians lack the rights of complete freedom of movement, protection against the Israeli military, and their right to protest is not secured.

Answer 1

Jerusalem is important in the history of Muslims because when the Muslims reached the Jerusalem they ruled over there .The principle of Islam is not to make the restrictions for the believers of others to follow the Islam forcefully. Islam is the religion of peace .in Islam it is forbidden to destroy the holly places of other religions. islam allows the non believers to worship their own believes. and in the Jerusalem there came the ruler AL Hakeem who ruled against the Islamic laws .he ordered to destroys the holly places of christens .in his age the crusaders then enter the Jerusalem to defend their holly places. and try to conquer the Jerusalem. that's why Muslims have importance or the Jerusalem in their history.

Answer 2

More to the point, it is impossible to weigh the particular value of any one holy site to its adherents as more important than another site in a different religion. The presence of Muslim and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem makes it equally holy for both.

The people based their livelihood mainly on agriculture and herding livestock, though there were also fisher-folk, tradespeople, crafts-workers, functionaries such as judges and teachers, etc.
In terms of economic classes in the populace, the more wealthy could typically include those close to the king.

Middle income could include tradespeople, merchants and artisans; and the least income would be that of unskilled laborers. Farmers would in many cases be low to middle-income.

However, in Israelite society, the Torah and Prophets put so much emphasis on social justice that the people tended to avoid the practice of neglecting the poor or judging people by their financial status. There were twenty-four types of tithe-"taxes" given to the Kohanim; a full ten percent of produce was given to the Levites; and a portion was given to the poor.

The result of all this was that the gap between the wealthy and the rest of the people was much less than in other nations.

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As regards Torah-scholarship, anyone could become a great Sage; and in the study-halls, scholars of great wealth and of no wealth sat side by side and learned together.

But there were some individuals, men with positions of power, who misused that power. As was the case concerning the avoidance of idolatry, not everyone heeded the prophets.
Specifically, the monarchy and its hangers-on, and the judges and people holding public office, included a minority that took advantage of those who had no such power.

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Link: More about Israelite society

Link: Life as a servant in ancient Israel

Elul, an autumn month, is the sixth.
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The Hebrew calendar