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Israel
Located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, Israel is the only Jewish-majority state in the world. It has a total land area of 22,072 sq km with an estimated population of approximately 7.7 million as of 2010.
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How is power distributed in Israel?
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Israel power is shared equally and has a democracy. Israel has the power through the branches of government.
Answer 2
Israel has a proportionally elected parliamentary democracy. Israel has two separate governmental branches: the legislative-executive branch and an independent judiciary. The Israeli Military (IDF) is subject to the will of the civilian government and does not reserve any special powers or rights.
Legislative-Executive
The Knesset or Israeli Parliament is composed of members who are elected by all Israeli citizens (regardless of race, gender, or religion) and are seated in accordance with the percentage (roughly) of the votes for those parties. After an election, different parties will try to strike agreements with one another to form a coalition that has 61 or more seats (>50% of the Knesset). From this coalition, typically the head of the largest party will become the Prime Minister or the Chief Executive. Other MKs (members of the Knesset) will get posts in the different ministries of the Israeli government and coordinate affairs. The coalition will pass and implement laws designed to improve Israeli society according to what the Knesset rules. Additionally, the Knesset can also pass Basic Laws which are far more permanent than normal laws (similar to a US Constitutional Amendment), but these require a larger percentage of the Knesset to agree to the changes.
Judiciary
Israel has an independent court system which hears cases brought both by Israeli citizens and those on appeal from the military courts in the West Bank from Palestinians. The Israeli courts are designed to be politically impartial and will apply laws approved by the Knesset. The Israeli Supreme Court will occasionally invalidate a law in whole or in part if it violates a Basic Law or if it clearly causes more harm than benefit.
Which country was the first to recognize israel as an independent nation?
The United States of America
What do Palestinians often call the war of 1948?
Palestinians often refer to the war of 1948 as the "Nakba," which means "catastrophe" in Arabic. This term reflects the significant loss of land, displacement, and suffering experienced by Palestinians during and after the conflict, which led to the establishment of the State of Israel. The Nakba is commemorated annually on May 15, the day following the declaration of Israeli independence.
Was Israel in Canaan a failure?
Scholars say that there was no military conquest of Canaan, as described in the Bible. The close similarity of language, religion and culture means that the Hebrew people were Canaanites, whether dissidents or not. So, the presence of Israel in Canaan was neither failure nor fulfilment. However, the story of the Israelite conquest of Canaan is one of the most successful ever. Not only have billions of people literally believed the story, it underpinned the development of Judaism, and eventually Christianity and Islam.
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It may surprise most readers to hear the tradition, that the Israelites became a glorious realization of God's plan, and they continue to do so. This is why the same prophets who castigate the Israelites, also promise them God's redemption and continued covenant.
The prophecies that lambaste the Israelites, are because we aren't perfect, and God expects more of us. The very purpose of the prophets was to ceaselessly push us to improve. One example of this is when the entire nation was blamed and suffered for the sin of a single person (Joshua ch.7) or of a handful. Throughout the period of the Judges and the Kingdom (of Judah), tradition states that the sinners were a minority and were much better than our later generations (Talmud, Yoma 9b).
Any notion of the Israelites being a failure is based on a shallow perusal of the Tanakh without commentary or tradition.
What can zionism described as?
There is both religious and secular zionism. Both concern the Jewish desire to live in our ancestral land.
What sea lies between Israel and Jordan?
The Dead Sea lies between Israel and Jordan.
These states also share the Red Sea, although it's not exactly between them.
Time difference Israel and Spain?
Difference between New York and Israel is 7 Hrs....
For Ex:1, NY time is 7 o'clock (AM, Monday)
Then,
Israel time is 2 o'clock (PM, Monday)
Ex:2, NY time is 1 o'clock (AM, Monday)
Then,
Israel time is 8 o'clock (AM, Monday)
Ex:3, NY time is 6 o'clock P.M. (Monday)Then,
Israel time is 1 o'clock A.M. (Tuesday)
Also, be aware of DST changes, in areas where it applies!
What is Israel's relative location?
South Of Lebanon, West of Jordan, North of Egypt, and East of the Mediterranean Sea.
Who controlled Israel before world war 1?
When the Jews realised that Britain was moving towards granting independence to the Palestinian Mandate on a democratic single-state basis, the Jews began a program of terrorism designed to drive Britain out of Palestine. Britain handed the 'problem' over to the United Nations, which initially favoured a division that provided approximately equal shares of the land to each side.
great britan
Yes, those are the Ten Lost Tribes. And because they are lost, the great majority of Jews today, some 80% or so, are descended from the tribe of Judah (plus converts and descendents of converts). The remaining 20% include Levites (from the tribe of Levi), Cohanim (also a part of the Levites), the entire Tribe of Benjamin, and a small percentage from every one of the remaining tribes. (When the Ten Tribes were carried off into Assyria and didn't return, a few of them had already mixed into the tribe of Judah before that, through marriage. Also, the Talmud relates [Megillah 14b] that, one century after the Ten Tribes were exiled [and their location was still known], Jeremiah journeyed to where they were and brought some of them back to Judea. Thus, today's Jewry includes a small percentage of every one of the Lost Tribes. See for example the Talmud, Pesachim 4a.)
As to the location of the bulk of the lost Ten Tribes, because of the lack of a continuous tradition in this particular matter, we can only speculate. Some well-known claims, such as the suggestion that the Native Americans or African Americans are the Lost Israelite Tribes, we can confidently dismiss offhand. Other claims, such as that which has been suggested concerning the Pathani (Pashtun), are less far-fetched but must for the time being remain nothing more than a guess.
Most Arab leaders contest all areas of Israel. However, the only two areas that they have any serious chance of acquiring with the blessing of the international community (and through diplomacy) are the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Why does israel specialize in technology?
Hi-tech, medicine, communications, and aerospace. Here are some examples:
Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile defense system gained worldwide acclaim after intercepting hundreds of rockets fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip in 2014.
Israel one of seven countries capable of launching satellites.
Israel is considered one of the most advanced countries in Southwest Asia in economic and industrial development. It has the second-largest number of startup companies in the world (after the United States), and the largest number of Nasdaq-listed companies outside North America. The Israeli economy was ranked as the world's most durable economy in the face of crises, and was also ranked first in the rate of research and development investments.
Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds, right behind the US.
Israel's leading exports include electronics, software, computerized systems, communications technology, medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, fruits, chemicals, military technology, and cut diamonds.
Israel is one of the world's leaders in solar energy industry and in water technology. In response to serious water shortages, Israeli engineers and agriculturalists developed a revolutionary drip irrigation system to minimize the amount of water used to grow crops.
Israel has led the world in stem-cell research papers per capita since 2000.
Israeli scientists developed the first fully computerized, no-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.
An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical treatment.
Israel's Givun imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the inside, the camera helps doctors diagnose cancer and digestive disorders.
Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the heart to pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save lives among those with congestive heart failure. The new device is synchronized with the heart's mechanical operations through a sophisticated system of sensors.
Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.
Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U.S., about 70 in Japan, and 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its workforce employed in technical professions, Israel places first in this category as well.
The cellphone was developed in Israel by Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.
Most of the Windows NT operating system was developed by Microsoft-Israel.
The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.
Voice-mail technology was developed in Israel.
Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel.
The technology for AOL Instant Messenger was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.
A new acne treatment developed in Israel, the ClearLight device, produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-free, narrow-band blue light that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct, all without damaging surrounding skin or tissue.
An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large solar-powered, fully functional electricity-generating plant, in southern California's Mojave desert.See also these related links:
Does Israel still have God's protection?
What are Israel's major resources?
How many miles from israel to Florida?
Since Egypt and Israel have a common border, there is no distance between those two countries. Of course, their capitol cities are many miles apart, as are other parts of these countries, but that is another matter.
Is Israel a Jewish nation in the Middle East?
yes it is
Of course. Israel proclaimed its Independence on 14 May of 1948 and defended it in four bloody wars started by Arab countries,Israel is a recognzed UN member and has full diplomatic relations with 157 countries
What happened to lsrael after Solomon died?
According to 1 Kings 11, God told Solomon that his son would lose most of his kingdom because Solomon had committed the sin of worshipping other gods. Later, it says that after the death of Solomon, the northern tribes rebelled from the kingdom of Israel and created their own kingdom called Israel, while the former kingdom settled for the name Judah. According to this account, it came about because Solomon had unwisely imposed swingeing taxes on the northern tribes and his son and successor, Rehoboam, not only refused to lift them but insisted on increasing the burden on the Israelites.
Many Biblical scholars say there never was a United Monarchy of Israel and that this was a later construct by scholars in the small southern kingdom of Judah. Israel Finkelstein says that the two kingdoms had different dialects of the Hebrew language, different pottery styles and different cultures.
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The people of Israel rebelled against taxes and such, and soon divided the united kingdom into two different parts of the region/kingdom.
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Rehoboam's father, King Solomon, had levied relatively heavy taxes, which had been used for such large-scale endeavors as building the First Temple. The fact that the nation was so prosperous and happy in his time (1 Kings 4:20) demonstrates that Solomon conducted his governance in a praiseworthy manner.
After Solomon's death, the people approached his son Rehav'am (Rehoboam) and asked that he now lower the tax. He ignored the counsel of his elder advisers and refused the people's request. This led the Ten Tribes to turn away from him (1 Kings ch.12).
The background reason was because King Solomon had been less than perfectly righteous. This led God to punish him by diminishing his dynasty in the lifetime of his son (Rehoboam). 1 Kings ch.11. A deeper reason is that God wanted the more righteous people of Judah to be influenced by the Ten Tribes as little as possible.
- Is the Hebrew Bible trustworthy?
"One city after another, one civilization after another, one culture after another, who were known only from the Bible, have been restored to their place in ancient history through archaeology" (Prof. Gleason Archer, A Survey of Old Testament Introduction).
No parchment, scroll, or inscription has ever been found that would support the Bible-critics' JEPD (different sources) hypothesis, which remains a set of mere postulates. And those ancient writers who mention, describe, summarize or translate the Torah (Josephus, Samaritans, Targum, Septuagint etc.), describe it in its complete form.
Archaeological finds, such as the Ugarit documents and those of Nuzu, Mari, Susa, Ebla, and Tel el-Amarna, have repeatedly caused the critics to retract their claims. The entire social milieu portrayed in the Torah, once criticized as anachronistic, has been shown to be accurate, including customs of marriage, adoption, contracts, inheritance, purchases, utensils, modes of travel, people's names and titles, etc. Professor Gleason Archer states: "In case after case where inaccuracy was alleged as proof of late and spurious authorship of the biblical documents, the Hebrew record has been vindicated by the results of excavations, and the condemnatory judgment of the Documentary theorists have been proved to be without foundation."
Why is Israel attacked so much?
When any person or group feels offended and attacked, they tend to feel "defensive". Since countries are made up of people, the same "feeling" can occur for the majority of people in a country who have felt maligned and mistreated. Being "defensive" is a form of protection and protest, whether the protest is verbal or through actions. So if Israel is "defensive", you'd only need to look at the history of the country to see how it has experiences "offenses" against it and its people.
They decided to divide it into two states one Jewish the other Arab (APEX) :)
When Nixon refused to withdraw support of Israel open responded by?
refusing to sell oil to the United States
How did the Arab Israel war of 1948 affect Palestinian Arabs?
Many Palestinians became refugees living in camps in Syria and Lebanon.
Why is there so much tension between Israel and Palestine today?
There is tension in Palestine today because of the conflict of the Jews and the Arabs. After WW II, the Jews wanted a refuge for themselves, and they wanted it in Palestine. But, both the Arabs and the Jews found Jerusalem a Holy City, and the Arabs didn't want Jews in their "claimed" city. Today, Palestine is split, one part for the Arabs, and another for the Jews. I found this website helpful. http://www.myjewishlearning.com/israel/History/1948-1967/Birth_of_Israel.shtml
Why did Israel start to have kings?
The Israelites at that time were coming to the end of an era which was unique in world history. They had undertaken a grand experiment: whether a nation could govern themselves for centuries without a king or organized government.
Instead, there were the officers of tens, fifties, hundreds and thousands (Exodus ch.18), and the court of Elders, who were Torah-scholars that provided Torah-rulings and guidance. Each of the leading Judges (Gideon, Deborah etc.) was a private citizen (not a head of government) who led the nation only during a brief episode of battle.
During that era (of the Judges, about 350 years), when someone raised the possibility of having a king, the answer was: God will rule over you, not a king (Judges 8:23). The events of the Exodus and the Giving of the Torah were so fresh in the nation's memory that they didn't need a king; God was their King. (The missteps which did take place in that era, is a subject beyond the scope of the present question.)
In Samuel's old age, nearly four centuries after the Exodus, the people (including their Torah-scholars) felt that the time had come to take a regular government. The Torah itself permitted this (Deuteronomy ch.17); and they saw that Samuel's sons didn't seem to have reached his spiritual level (1 Samuel 8:2-3).
Their usage of the expression "like the other nations around us" was not a problem, since they were deliberately quoting the Torah (Deuteronomy 17:14).
What then was their mistake?
According to the Malbim commentary (on 1 Samuel), they should have waited at least until Samuel was too old to function.
According to the K'li Yakar commentary (on Deuteronomy), their precise choice of language ("for us," instead of the "over us" which the Torah had said), hinted that they wanted a king who might be affected by public pressure (which later happened with Rehoboam). See Talmud, Yoma 22b.
According to Samuel himself (1 Samuel 8:10-18), they were taking a regrettable risk because later kings might be overbearing.
One more point: in Judaism we have a general rule which is called "the descent of the generations." This means that according to our tradition, the earlier a generation lived, the higher was their spiritual level (Talmud, Shabbat 112b). No Talmud-sage would dare to negate a verse of the Prophets; and no later Rabbi would dare to belittle a Talmud-sage.
For this reason, we must not judge that generation. And concerning Saul, our tradition explicitly states that he was a righteous man (Talmud, Moed Katan 16b; and Midrash Breishit Rabah 54:4); and he unified the Israelites and defeated their enemies round about (1 Samuel 14:47).
How did World War 2 lead to the founding of the nation of Israel?
After the war many European Jews had no place to go and it was decided that part of Palestine would become a Jewish state.
The founding of the nation of Israel after w.w.2 originates in a letter sent by British Foreign Secretary Arthur J. Balfour to Lord Rothschild, (the banker) and leader of the British Jewish community Nov.2nd 1917,which stated that at an Oct. 31 1917 meeting of the British Cabinet, the U.K. supported plans by the Zionist Federation for a Jewish national home in Palestine, though nothing should be done to prejudice the civil or religious rights of existing communities there. The Zionst Fed. had previosuly approached the Ottoman Empirand the Kaiser on this but were rebuffed. Although the Balfour Declaration promised nothing, it was interpreted with some differently. After W.W.2 the Jewish influx into Palestine was so great that the U.K. tried to restrict the numbers but ended up caught in the middle of the Jews and Arabs Conflict,being attacked by both sides, and by 1948 was forced to leave the two sides to their fate,which can be seen today, with a sympathetic view from whatever side you look at it. There was even a possbility at one time of a homeland in Uganda and Argentina.
