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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.
6,421 Questions
Bethlehem's-this word from which language?
"Bethlehem" is one of the many words that King James' council of translators
decided to leave in the original Hebrew, or close to it, for their English translation
of the Old Testament.
It's two words in the Hebrew, pronounced "BEYT LEH-khem" and meaning literally
"house of bread".
Here are a few more Hebrew words that were imported into the King James translation
with little or no change from Hebrew:
Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Methuselah, Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob,
Joseph, Simon, Asher, Dinah, Judah, Benjamin, Joshua, David, Michael, Gabriel,
Nazareth, Jerusalem, Bethesda, behemoth, leviathan.
Which continent are Israel and Jordan in?
Israel is in Asia. Egypt is mostly in Africa and is generally considered to be an African country, but a small part of it is in Asia.
How Much Does An Mac-Book Pro Cost In Israel?
Since Apple does not operate retail channels directly in Israel, the price will vary between resellers.
What were the five countries that attacked Israel after it declared its independence?
Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq.
Saudi Arabia also provided financial support.
Does Israel have anything to do with the Suez Canal?
Yes and No.
It's in Egypt and built nearly a century before Israel existed. However, due to Egypt's belligerence towards Israel between 1948-1979, the Suez Canal was illegally closed off to Israeli shipping. In 1956, this prompted a war from Israel to acquire control of the Canal to offset the Egyptian blockade of the Straits of Tiran. In 1967, Israel conquered all of the Sinai Peninsula up to the Suez Canal, which was only ceded back to Egypt in 1979.
That's a truly frightening thing to think about. If Israel is not real, then my
daughter, along with her husband and three small children, are living in some
shallow mud at the east end of the Mediterranean Sea, a few million Arab
Muslims who think they live in Israel really don't, and several million more
who live in the same neighborhood are getting themselves all worked up
and ruining their children's lives over nothing at all.
Answer:
The question sounds like wishful thinking. Dream on. I live right here in northern Israel, and when I drive I can see (Christian) Arab towns, Druze towns, and Jewish towns. In day-to-day life we manage to get along pretty well.
Can a Christian be Prime Minister of Israel?
The chances are extremely low. Israel's government is a Parliament style and the Christian would first have to become the leader of a party, and that party would have to gain the most seats in an election. Any party that has a Christian at its head is a minority party to be sure.
Who opposed the plan of creation of the Jewish homeland?
Most Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims, but the nations that voted against it were: Afghanistan, Cuba, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen. Also, the nations that abstained from voting were Argentina, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Honduras, Mexico, United Kingdom, and Yugoslavia.
Answer 1
Because it is such an important piece of history and it will never stop being in the news until the war between them finally comes to an end.
Answer 2
The argument that most experts who trace the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict to World War II makes is that the Holocaust (the genocide, predominantly of Jews, that occurred during World War II) convinced many nations of the necessity of a Jewish State. As a result the UN Partition Plan of 1947 and the eventual creation of the State of Israel are a direct result of World War II.
The reasoning, however, indicates a lack of subtlety and a tendency to exaggerate the role of the Holocaust in furthering Zionism. The institutions and settlements that would form Israel were already being established in the 1920s, long before World War II and fights between the Jews and the Arabs began in the later 1920s. World War II merely helped the Zionist Jews achieve the independence they were already beginning to gain for themselves.
The most basic reason for the conflicts between Israel and other countries of the Middle East is?
religious differences
Traditional for Arabs expansionist policy supported by the new wave of Pan-Islamism.
Was Israel the aggressor in the conquest of the West Bank in 1967?
No. Jordan was the aggressor in 1967, in that theatre of the war. On June 5, 1967, Israel preemptively attacked Egypt and Prime Minister Eshkol sent a message to King Hussein of Jordan explicitly asking him to stay out of the conflict so that Israel could concentrate its attack on Egypt. On June 6, Jordanian radar picked up Israeli fighter jets over Egyptian airspace returning to Israel. Egyptian President Nasser wanted Jordanian involvement so that Israel would have to fight a war on two fronts and communicated to King Hussein that the jets were Egyptian on a victory invasion of Israel. As a result, on June 7th, Jordan began to shell West Jerusalem from the West Bank, resulting in an Israeli invasion of the West Bank later that day. So, while Israel was the aggressor with respect to the Gaza Strip occupation, Jordan was the aggressor with respect to the West Bank Occupation.
How did anti-Semitism help give rise to Zionism in the late 1800s?
Herzl explained quite well that the European concept of a nation-state was dependent on the idea that all of the people in any particular nation were of the same ethnic stock and heritage. Jews were branded by this system to be "the Other" and were regarded at best as possible equals and at worse as traitors, spies, thieves, and fifth columns. This negative view of Jews is the foundation of Anti-Semitism. When the Dreyfus Affair turned out marches in Paris that said "Death to the Jews" on account of a kangaroo court against a particular guiltless Jew, it became clear that the Jew could not be integrated into Europe. Because of this, Jews wished to create their own state, which is called Zionism.
Why was Israel originally established?
In 1948 Israel became the home land for all the Jews who were disenfranchised during the 2nd world war, they were scattered throughout Europe, after what these people had to go through during the Holocaust it was finally established that Jews had their own country and state
Why do some people hate the Jews when God clearly favors them?
I don't know , Whats Your religion,so I can't answer you properly , But there is a Answer here . Some people hate the Jews when God clearly favors them ,because they have studied the history which clearly tells us that God did Favored them much in the past but they didn't proved to be that much Worthy , they clearly disobey God and thus were granted His distrust in them and after that , Jews used to get Strength for some time but eventually they fall . And even now they face Hate every where and are near to their Down Fall again No doubt.
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When was the nation of Israel dispersed over the earth?
Three times.
1) When the Assyrians exiled the Ten Israelite tribes, around 2600 years ago.
2) When the Babylonians exiled the population of Judah (Judea), around 2500 years ago.
3) When the Romans destroyed the Second Temple and made life in Judea too difficult, beginning around 1950 years ago.
Answer 1
yes for a long time.
Answer 2
No. Palestine was never an individually governed Arab territory. No Arab Empire from the Rashidun Caliphate to the Ayyubid Caliphate ever ruled from Jerusalem nor was Palestine administered as a central territory. It was a near-permanent backwater, especially during the Ottoman Period, when it was actually portioned off in three pieces that were smaller parts of governates headquarted outside of Palestine.
Prior to the Nakba in 1948-1949, there was not even a unique Palestinian identity as we know it today. The Palestinian Arabs called themselves Fellahin (which means settled peasant) and considered themselves to be ethnically 'Arab Bilaad ash-Shaam or Levantine Arabs or Greater Syrian Arabs.
The first ever Palestinian Arab state in the history of the world was declared in absentia in Tunisia in 1988 and was partially realized in 1993 with the Oslo Accords.
Zion was the name of a hill on the outskirts of the Old City of Jerusalem and has been used to refer to Jerusalem, and the Land of Israel generally, in a poetic sense.
Was France anywhere near Israel in biblical days?
If by Biblical days you mean the years BC (Before Christ) or early AD (Anno Domini (In the Year of Our Lord)), the State of Israel did not exist, it was formed by the United Nations when the Country of Palestine was split to make space for a Jewish State in 1947, also France as we know it today also did not exist in the early years BC, it was then a much bigger Country known as Gaul.
If you are referring to the territories which went on to form these two separate countries, they are geographically quite a distance from each other, France being in Western Europe and Israel being in the Middle East.
Is Israel the oldest country in the Middle East?
NO. The Modern State of Israel gained independence in 1948, but nearly half of the Middle East has older dates of independence. The Sultanate of Oman was founded in 1744, Egypt gained independence in 1922, Saudi Arabia was established and Iraq gained independence in 1932, Lebanon and Syria both declared independence in 1943, and the Kingdom of Jordan declared independence in 1946. Conversely, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates did not become independent until the 1970s and the current Iranian government tracks to the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
If the question is asking about the original Israelite Kingdoms, there are many older civilizations in Phoenicia, Ancient Egypt, and Mesopotamia as well. Ancient Egypt and Sumeria were founded over 2000 years prior to the Israelite Kingdoms.
What is the distance between Eilat and Haifa?
According to the Travelmania website, the distance between Eilat and Haifa is 451 km. See the Related Link.
