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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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What is the dining etiquette of Israel?
I recategorized you Q as there are many types of etiquette in Israel. Jews that keep Kosher, Muslims, and Christians, plus the customs idigenous to the country. Please wait for other contributors to help us out here.
Prior to the British, French, and Israeli Invasion, the State Department already had a few objectives as concerns Egypt. They wanted to prevent a second Arab-Israeli War and they wanted to keep the Suez Canal in European hands since its nationalization could have a negative impact on the passage of freight (and petroleum) from the Persian Gulf to Europe and the Americas. In 1956, Nasser, President of Egypt, decided to nationalize the Suez Canal. It was in retaliation that the British, French, and Israelis invaded Egypt in an attempt to compel Egypt to return the Canal to European control.
US President Eisenhower's response was to attempt to negotiate a compromise where Egypt would be allowed to maintain control over the Suez Canal provided that they paid the British compensation for the nationalization and did not restrict trade (meaning that they would follow the Constantinople Convention of the Suez Canal of 1888). However, Eisenhower was opposed to any military action in the Middle East and compelled the British, French, and Israeli forces to withdraw from sovereign Egyptian territory. These events led to the Eisenhower Doctrine, which pledged that the US would distribute economic and military aid and, if necessary, use military force to contain communism in the Middle East.
Who won the IFBB Mr. Israel competition in 2009?
Eric Effi Kivelevitz won the 2009 the IFBB Mr Israel competition. He now continues to compete in the US.
Israel's most important river?
Israel only has one river, The Jordan River, which it shares with neighboring countries.
When did the war of independence in Israel end?
There was no "war of independence". In late 1947, the United Nations General Assembly
voted to allow Jewish authorities to oversee a piece of land in the Middle East. In May of 1948,
those authorities declared that piece of land to be an independent country, and that was
all it took. There was no war, Israel existed, and it was recognized as an independent nation
by many others around the world, including the US and UK. But there were others that were
troubled by Israel's existence as an independent nation. In fact, they were so troubled that
the combined armies of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt attacked Israel soon after its
declaration of independence. They failed to take over the country and bring its government
down, and although most of them are still bothered by Israel's presence after 62 years,
Israel still exists.
The war was not one of independence. It was one of survival, and Israel won that one.
Why didn't Joseph son of Jacob get any of the land when they divided it into the 12 tribes?
On the contrary, he got twice as much, since each of his two sons received a portion.
Additional information:
Both Levi and Joseph did not get a tribe, however, Joseph's two sons - Ephraim and Manasseh - were adopted by Jacob as his own (see Genesis 48:5) and each given a tribe of Israel.
Note: Sometimes the 'birthright' holder Ephraim is referred to as Joseph in Scripture - see Numbers 1:32-33
Levi did not get a tribe because of their special position in the Temple and the local shrines.
Why does Israel need a Messiah?
Israel does not NEED a Messiah. Israel looks forward longingly to the Messiah.
Judaism teaches that a Man should do everything in his power to achieve Divakut, a perfect cleaving to God and the Divine Will. The Messiah brings the Kingdom of God to the Earthly plane making this cleavage far easier and far more natural. The strictures of the Jewish religion will no longer be necessary in the Messianic Age because the connection to God that they are intended to foster will occur without them.
Why did people in Israel dislike tax collectors during Jesus's time?
I dont know help me out here plz :d thamks
What religions are commonly practiced in Israel?
Israel has populations who practice Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Druze, Baha'i, and other faiths (at less than 1%).
Israel also has a minority of Agnostics and Atheists.
Answer:
Israel is about 75% Jewish and 25% other religions, including Islam and Christianity.
The State of Israel has a population of approximately 8,146,800 inhabitants as of 2014. 75.3% are Jewish (about 6,110,000 individuals), 16% are Muslim (about 1,300,000 inhabitants), while the remaining 8.7% (about 700,000 individuals) include: Christians (2%), Druze (1.5%), residents who do not have a religious classification (4%), and family members of Jewish immigrants who were not registered at the Interior Ministry as Jews.
Yes. Some are. At the same time, some are
intellectually challenged, and the rest are average.
What events do Jewish people trace back to present day Israel?
The place where the Forefathers (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) and their families lived and received God's covenant
The home of the Jews, from Joshua's time to the time of Ezekiel (850 years)
The place of the Jewish Holy Temple built by Solomon
The home of the Jews who returned from exile in the Second Temple period
(1) First Civilizations arose in Mesopotamia
(2) Sumerians invented a system of writing (may even have been contemporaneous with (1))
(3) Hammurabi established the Babylonian Empire
(4) Israel was founded
How did Zionism spread in Egypt?
Zionism only really spread in Egypt among a minority of the Jewish community. It spread by word of mouth, letters, and Zionist publications. It is likely that it would have penetrated further if no Anti-Zionist attitude prevailed in the Islamic community. (The Egyptian Jewish community was afraid of "provoking" the Islamic community.)
Do Israelis need visas to travel to Aruba?
No, Israelis do not need visas to travel to Aruba.
Specifically, Israelis need valid Israeli passports and return tickets. They enter without visas. They can stay up to thirty days at a time.
Why doesn't Israel give independence to Palestine?
Answer 1
Here is what I think. As much as this contributor would like to see independence for Palestine, it must be a process, and it will take many years for the Palestinian Authority to gain strength. If Palestine gained independence too soon it would fall apart and someone else would take over, upsetting the balance of authority in the Middle East. If Great Britain had simply dumped its colonists on America and granted them independence, I think Spanish or French would now be the language in North America.
Answer 2
There are several reasons why Israelis are reluctant to give Palestinians independence:
Military Defense: One of the best military advantages of holding onto the West Bank is the Jordan River Valley. The river plunges precipitously on either side, making it a perfect tank-ditch for invading armies. This would force any invaders from the Jordanian side to use the bridges across the river and allow the Israelis have an effective defense. Additionally, the West Bank is the area of the former British Mandate of Palestine with the highest elevation. Several Air-Towers have been built in the Judean Highlands to spot air traffic moving around Israel and detect in-coming military planes. Without these positions, Israel leaves itself in a much worse position. Additionally, Israel becomes only 10 miles wide near Hadera, Israel if the West Bank is lost.
Holy Sites: The majority of Jewish holy sites in Mandatory Palestine are actually in the West Bank or East Jerusalem, which are both considered Occupied Territories. These include the Western Wall in Jerusalem and the entire Old City, the Cave of the Ramban, the "City of David", David's Burial Ground at Mount Zion, the Tomb of Samuel just north of Jerusalem, the city of Hebron and the nearby the Cave of Machpelah, Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, the tombs of Pinehas and the Elders of the Great Assembly at Awarta, and Rachel's tomb outside of Bethlehem. The Palestinians under Israeli occupation currently deface many of these sites and attack Jews who seek to pray at them. Jordanians actively forbid Jews from visiting these places when they controlled the West Bank in 1949-1967. The Ottomans were not great protectors of the region either.
Many Jews are worried that if the Palestinians gain full autonomy, they will prevent Jews from visiting and praying at their holy sites, especially the Western Wall. The Islamic Waqf, which owns the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque has actually said, "The Jews have no connection to the Western Wall. It is a Muslim site that was used by Mohammed to tie up his Buraq." The Waqf then claims that the Jews "made up" their claim concerning the holiest site in Judaism in order to facilitate Palestinian repression. With people so insensitive poised to gain power over Jewish Holy Sites if the Occupied Territories are devolved, it is not surprising that Jews are worried about handing over the Occupied Territories.
Issues with the Palestinian Government: Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah as it stands currently are probably some of the best negotiating partners that Israel will ever have, but they are not perfect. Fatah has routinely stated that it will not arrest Palestinian Militants as Israel has asked them to since they do not bow to Israeli Authority. Hamas is far worse, though. Their very charter makes clear that they oppose any peaceful resolution to the Conflict that results in anything other than a complete removal of Israel. Hamas has also proven that it is more capable of earning Palestinian sympathy than Fatah and it is possible that a Hamas government could replace Fatah if Palestine were actually allowed to vote on any leadership. Such a vote would create major problems for Israel in the "Military Defense" category since Israel would have a hostile state right on its border.
Example of Gaza: Many supporters of Settlement Withdrawal looked at the Gaza Disengagement in 2005 with high hopes. Jewish Settlers left the Gaza Strip and turned it over to entirely Palestinian control. The result was not peace or increased rights for Palestinians. The result was that Hamas took control and began to bombard Israel with a constant rocket barrage. The Disengagement in Gaza has resulted as of 2013 in two wars (Operation Cast Lead 2008-2009 and Operation Pillar Defense 2012) and thousands of Palestinian victims. Instead of rewarding the Israeli show of good faith with reciprocal good faith, the Palestinians took the withdrawal as a sign of weakness and preyed on the Israelis. Israelis are not interested in being bitten again.
Israeli Settlements: Close to 500,000 Israelis live in the West Bank or East Jerusalem in several major cities like Ariel, Modiin Illit, East Jerusalem, Pisgat Zeev, Ma'ale Adumim, and Efrat. Entire neighborhoods, schools, universities, companies, and livelihoods have been built up in the West Bank, not to mention voters in Israeli elections. The removal of settlements is a difficult political and social issue within Israel as it would be very costly both monetarily and socially to uproot 500,000 people and resettle them.
What was the coldest temperature ever recorded in Israel?
the lowest temperature that was ever recorded in Israel was −13.7 °C (7.3 °F) at Beit Netofa Valley
What is the most recent agreement between Israel and Palestine?
It depends on how you define “Agreement”.
If you term “agreement” any decision where an Israeli government authority and a representative of the Palestinian Authority, agreements happen daily. There is almost constant communication between Israelis and Palestinians over the disposition of Israeli military, Palestinian police, tax collection, roadblock placement, corralling Israeli Settlers and dealing with Palestinian militants, and numerous other minor issues.
If you term “agreement” any political accord, the most recent would be the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in 2014 and its renewals.
If you term “agreement” to be a foundational change in governmental operations, the last successful treaty between the Israelis and the Palestinians was the 1993 Oslo Accords. (This ignores the 1994 Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty which had some consequences for Palestinian Self-Determination, but did not include Palestinian representatives and it ignores the 2000 Camp David Summit which had some Israeli-suggested peace proposals, but these were all rejected by the Palestinians, resulting in no accord.)
What Holy days and Feast covered sins of Israel?
There is no feast related to atoning for our mistakes in Judaism. The holiday that focuses on atoning for our mistakes of the previous year is Yom Kippur. During this holiday, Jews fast (no food or water, no bathing, no sex, no work) for 25 hours and spend the day in synagogue praying.
Who owned Palestine first the Jews or the Arabs?
Answer 1
The answer is in the question. The term Jew is much older than Arab in a political sense. Jews and any Jewish state existed much before the Arab group of peoples, politically. About 3000 BC was the time people called themselves Jews, Arabs were not considering themselves a people until about 700 AD. Earlier these people were anything from Assyrians to Nabateans to precursors of the Yemeni, etc., etc. This does nothing to answer the question who "owns" Palestine. Ownership comes with possession. British and French troops "possessed" this region in the first part of the last century. Their weak rule allowed a large group of Zionists, most of which were of the Jewish faith, to invade the region under a comprehensive and well organized plan, partly legitimized by the British Balfour Act of Parliament of 1929, rescinded 1941. Of course, they had no legitimate right to make any judgment re this territory as they were supposed to be the trustees for the current residents under a mandate from the very politically weak League of Nations. Currently the divided State of Israel (approximately 40% of the Israeli voters favor expulsion of non-Jewish, 40% favor inclusion of all peoples in the State, 20% desire a non-Jewish state; thusly the political, economic, and social instability of the region in part illustrated by such a "loaded" or unrealistic and naive question as this article attempts to address) owns much of Palestine through illegal occupation of many types, including illegal settlements. As there is no power or court that will enforce whatever judgments are made by the very politically weak United Nations or world Court, the State of Israel's occupation of "parts of "Palestine" is a fait accompli.
Answer 2
"Arabs" in this context, is the Israeli propaganda word for Palestinians, and, as you might guess, Palestine belonged to the Palestinians long before anyone began changing the name on the maps to "Israel". Search for old maps and see for yourself.
Answer 3
The Levantine Arab identity, which is how the Palestinians, Jordanians, Lebanese, and Syrians self-identified prior to the 20th century, did not exist until the 1200s C.E. (The term "Palestinian" as an exclusive reference to those Arabs who lived in Mandatory Palestine, as opposed to both Jews and Arabs who lived in the Mandate, was not used until after 1948.) Prior to 1200 C.E. point, Palestine was made up of numerous different ethnic groups that had previously been Roman and Byzantine citizens. They were Phoenicians, Canaanites, Samaritans, Jews, Copts, etc., but not Arabs. Their ethnicity changed through the process of Arabization and their connection to the land similarly changed.
Therefore, if it can be established that the Jews possessed all or part of Palestine prior to 1200 C.E., then it can be said that Jews owned Palestine before Levantine Arabs ever existed. (Of course, it is worth mentioning that Levantine Arabs never ruled the Levant until the 20th century and were under Mesopotamian Arab, Arabian Arab, Egyptian Arab, and Turkish Occupation for centuries.) The Jews have several states that precede 1200 C.E. After having lived in Israel for over three hundred years in the era of the Judges, the oldest was the United Kingdom of Israel, which existed around 1000 B.C.E. (over 2000 years before the Levantine Arabs existed, let alone ruled themselves). The Kingdom of Judea, the successor state to the United Kingdom of Israel survived until 586 B.C.E. From 586 B.C.E. until 140 B.C.E., Palestine was under foreign occupation (Babylonian, Persian, Greek). In 140 B.C.E. the Jewish Hasmonean Dynasty took control and ruled the country for just over a century. At this point the Jews lost to the Romans and did not regain a state in their homeland until 1948.
So, Jews owned it first. Concerning Answer 2's advice to look at old maps, I second his urging; it would demonstrate perfectly that the Jews owned the land first. Concerning Answer 1, regardless of how you may feel about the Modern State of Israel, the question is asking about who owned it first; and Jews do not claim (and historians do not argue) that a Jewish connection to Palestine only began in 1948.
