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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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Israel controlled the city of Jerusalem since there Independence in 1948. Jerusalem is Israel Capitol to
The Holy Book of Judaism is the Tanakh.
Israel is a nation without an official state religion. (While Israel is the Jewish State, it is only Jewish in the ethnic sense, not the religious sense.) Most Israelis are Jews, but there are Muslim, Christian, Druze, and Baha'i minorities who each have their own holy books.
To read more about the Jewish Holy Book, please read the Related Question below.
Why did the tensions escalte between israel ans Egypt in 1952?
England, France and the United States retook the Suez Canal from Egypt after Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized it unilaterally. After quite a bit of diplomatic attempts to head off hostilities, the England France the US and Israel all took part in removing control of the Suez Canal from Egyptian forces.
The actual events from the point where Nasser nationalized the canal to the point of hostilities is loaded with activity.
Time difference between San Diego California and Israel?
there is a ten hour difference between Israel and California (Pacific Time Zone). Israel is ten hours later. If it is midnight in San Diego, CA....it is ten in the morning in Israel. Israel is in Asia....not Europe...like my husband thought!
Is Israel Kamakawiwo'ole still alive?
No,unfortunately not,he died back in June 1997,but he will be remembered for years to come.
When was Palestine declared a nation for Jews?
Wait a second. Help me out here, and please take it slowly, because sometimes
I get confused . . .
If Palestine was declared a nation for Jews, and the Jewish nation has been a
UN member for 62 years, then exactly what country are Erakat and Abbas and
Ashrawhi trying so hard to get admitted to the UN now ?
Jerusalem was designed to belong to which two countries?
If the question is asking as to which two countries desperately claim Jerusalem to be theirs, the answer is: Israel and Palestine.
However, Jerusalem was never designed to belong to two countries. Like all cities, it was designed to be a unified city. Every city that has been divided, from Berlin, to Vienna, to Nicosia, to Rome has suffered from having its urban structure divided between two different countries.
What is the human environment interaction for Israel?
The people of Israel interact with their environment through certain activities. Farming by irrigation is a good example of how the people of Israel interact with their environment.
How does Israel influence religion?
Well currently there is an interesting situation with the supporters of Israel and how it influences Christianity. I'm going to hit you with a strange fact. The largest supporters of Israel are evangelical christians. The reason for this is because in the bible it is stated that the formation of a Jewish state in Israel will bring about armageddon and the second coming of Christ. So currently it influences Christianity pretty heavily
Who caused the fall of Israel?
The Assyrians destroyed Israel in 722 BCE and scattered the people throughout their empire, where the former Israelites assimilated the local cultures and religion, and lost their separate ethnic identity. The Assyrians renamed Israel as Samaria and brought people from other parts of their empire into Samaria.
Why did Jews want to go back to Palestine?
From the Jewish perspective, it's an option, NOT an obligation, for Jews to return to Israel. When the Messiah comes, the Jews will return to Israel because of a desire to be close to the spirituality of the Messiah.
For a number of Christian Zionist groups, Jews must return to Israel to bring on Armageddon and the End of Days. They want this outcome so that Jesus Christ can return and create the Kingdom of God on Earth.
Who is the chief of state of Israel?
The official Head of State in Israel is the President but his duties are mostly formal. The prime minister is the "decision maker" in Israel.
As of August 2012 - the Israeli president is Shimon Peres and the Prime Minister is Benyamin Netanyahu.
What is the capital and largest city in Asia Israel?
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, but it certainly not the largest city in Asia; it is not even the largest city in Israel (which is Tel Aviv). The largest city in Asia is the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area; the two cities bleed into one another.
How many kinds of fish are there in the Sea of Galilee?
Camel spiders (Solpugidae) or sun spiders.
They are not true spiders. They are more like scorpions. They have big powerful mouthparts and can run very fast.
Israel is the second powerfulest country after America Israel and America we are the best of friends even with war in Iraq Israel and the usa have a very close relation.
There are two triangles on the flag and two blue stripe, one on the top and one in the bottom. Each triangle represent one supreme power, the triangle pointing on top represent the power/authority of GOD who lives in Skies denoted by upper blue stripe, and triangle pointing downwards point to the power of Messiah living in deep or above seas.
Name of a town in Lower Galilee?
Some towns in galilee are Acre, Nahariva, Nazareth, Safed, Karmiel, Shaghur, Afula, and Tiberias.
The antisemitism all over the world especially in Europe make the Jews united in the idea of Zionism ( create a nation ), it made them think that there is no place where they can be safe and live in peace, we can say that the Holocaust and the situation of the Jews in Arab states in the 20 century was "the last straw" for the Jews .
Answer 1
If you think it's wrong to kill people, then Israel is wrong.
Answer 2
First of all, the claims of Israelis willfully going around killing Arabs are exaggerated. More Palestinians have died as a result of violence perpetrated against them by Arabs (in Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon) than by Israelis. Secondly, if "killing people" was the standard by which countries are wrong, then capital punishment, which is legal in the United States and most Arab countries, would render all of those countries "wrong" too.
Israel has historic, legal, political, and infrastructural reasons to exist. So it is not "wrong", whatever that means. Is Israel imperfect? Certainly, but no country is perfect.
1). Israel is the alternate name of the biblical patriarch Jacob.
2). Israel is the name of a nation that existed from just after the Biblical Exodus until the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Roman occupiers in 70 CE, then faded from political identification and independence, and was restored as a nation in 1948. Israel is a democracy, with a unicameral legislature whose representatives are chosen by popular vote of all adult citizens, is a member of the United Nations, and is recognized by and maintains diplomatic relations with all but 34 of the world's 196 nations.
To which country does Israel belong?
Israel is an independent, sovereign nation, with its own government, political system, popularly elected legislature, currency, etc. It does not 'belong' to any other nation, although several of its close neighbors might like to change that.
The religion of the ancient israelites?
The religion of the ancient Israelites was what is now called Judaism.
Jews have always worshiped the One God. God wrecked the Egyptian idols (Exodus 12:12) and warned against idolatry (Exodus 22:19). Abraham worshiped "the Lord God of Heaven and Earth" (Genesis 14:22 and 24:3) and complained about the Philistines' lack of fear of God (Genesis 20:11). Jacob confiscated the idolatrous images taken from Shechem (Genesis 35:2) and got rid of them (Genesis 35:4); and refrained from invoking the gods of Nahor (Genesis 31:53). Rachel pilfered Laban's statue-images (Genesis 31:19) in order to prevent him from idolatry (Rashi commentary, ibid.). Joseph placed his hope in the God of the Forefathers (Genesis 50:24). Moses characterized the Golden Calf as "a great sin" (Exodus 32:21, 30) and punished the worshipers (Exodus ch.32). During the rest of his lifetime and that of Joshua (Judges 2:7), no incidents of Jewish idolatry were reported.
Shortly before he died, Moses warned the people that he suspected that they would eventually succumb to the lure of the idols (Deuteronomy 29:17). Joshua gave a similar warning (Joshua ch. 24).
These warnings came true. Many of the Israelites went astray after the foreign gods (Judges 2:11). However, the Jews never invented their own idol. It was always the baneful influence of other peoples. And there were times when the entire Jewish nation repented (Judges 2:1-4) and prayed to God (Judges 3:9, 3:15, 6:6, 10:10).
Because of the idol-worship that did happen, images of idols have been found in Israel too. Images of God aren't found because it is forbidden to represent Him through imagery (Deuteronomy 4:15-16).
It should be noted that idolatry was never universal among the Jews. The tradition of the One God was handed down in every generation, whether by the few or the many; and it is those who handed down the tradition whose beliefs we Jews continue today. Deborah ascribed victory to God (Judges 4:14), Gideon tore down the idolatrous altar (Judges 6:25-27); Samson prayed to God (Judges 16:28), as did Hannah (1 Samuel 1:11) and Samuel (ibid. 12:18); Eli blessed in the name of God (1 Samuel 2:20), Saul built an altar to God (1 Samuel 14:35); Jonathan ascribed victory to God (1 Samuel 14:12), as did David (1 Samuel 17:46); and Solomon built the Temple for God (1 Kings 8:20). A number of the kings "did what was right in God's eyes": Asa (1 Kings 15:11), Yehoshaphat (1 Kings 22:43), Yehoash (2 Kings 12:3), Amatziah (2 Kings 14:3), Azariah (2 Kings 15:3), Yotam (2 Kings 15:34), Hizkiah (2 Kings 18:3), and Josiah (2 Kings 22:2). Even at the height of the unfortunate spread of idolatry among the less-loyal Ten Tribes, there were thousands who remained loyal to God (1 Kings 19:18).
And, of course, the Prophets, who spoke in the name of God and warned against idolatry: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea and so on.
The sages of the Talmud, who ridiculed idolatry (Megillah 25b), were simply continuing in the tradition of the Prophets whose verses are quoted in that context (ibid.).
Who were the first people in Israel?
The first people we really know about, in what is now Israel, were the West Semitic people known in the Old Testament as Canaanites.
What 3 countries does Israel border?
-- Lebanon
-- Syria
-- Jordan
-- Egypt
(Of course, this answer ignores that Israel borders the partially-recognized country of Palestine and the unrecognized country of Hamas-Controlled Gaza.)
What kind of democracy does Israel have?
Israel has a democracy for Israeli citizens. It is parliamentary. The Palestinians do not have full inclusion in the Israeli state, as I understand.
