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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
Which roman legion ruled Israel?
There were various legions stationed in what is present day Israel in Roman times, but the Tenth Legion had its headquarters there.
There were various legions stationed in what is present day Israel in Roman times, but the Tenth Legion had its headquarters there.
There were various legions stationed in what is present day Israel in Roman times, but the Tenth Legion had its headquarters there.
There were various legions stationed in what is present day Israel in Roman times, but the Tenth Legion had its headquarters there.
There were various legions stationed in what is present day Israel in Roman times, but the Tenth Legion had its headquarters there.
There were various legions stationed in what is present day Israel in Roman times, but the Tenth Legion had its headquarters there.
There were various legions stationed in what is present day Israel in Roman times, but the Tenth Legion had its headquarters there.
There were various legions stationed in what is present day Israel in Roman times, but the Tenth Legion had its headquarters there.
There were various legions stationed in what is present day Israel in Roman times, but the Tenth Legion had its headquarters there.
How do you say 'welcome' in Israel?
welcome in Hebrew is "baroch haba" or "shalom" or "brocim habaim"
What is a kibbutz where can you find one?
A kibbutz is a sort of collectively-run farm or commune, with many situated throughout Israel. Organised along more-or-less communist (with a lower case c, as opposed to Communist or Marxist), they were previously very popular among non-Jewish young people in Europe and America who would frequently take a year or two out from their education to work on a kibbutz but are less so now, partially as a result of the changes in popular opinion on the country.
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However, there are still several with various entry requirements. A Google search for "kibbutzim in Israel" should turn up plenty of results.
Why was Israel called the State of Israel when it was founded?
The question may be asking two separate things and this merits two separate answers.
1) Why use the name "Israel" at all and not "Palestine", which was the name of Mandate, "Judea" which was the name of the previous Jewish Kingdom, or any other name? -- Israel is representative of the Union of the 12 Tribes since all of those Tribes are the Tribes of Israel. Israel's mission was to bring all Jews together literally under one banner. So this name was chosen as a unifying Jewish term.
2) Why use the term "State of" instead of "Republic of" or "People's Democratic Republic of" or any other appellation? -- The Hebrew for "State of Israel" is Medinat Yisrael (מדינת ישראל) and the word "Medina" is ancient Biblical Word as opposed to Republic which is Republika (רפובליקה). Thus the State of Israel is harkening back to its Biblical Roots. Most terms that Israelis use for their government are Biblical Terms like Nasi (נשיא) which meant Prince, but now means President and Rosh Hamemshalah (ראש הממשלה) or Head of the Government is the Prime Minister.
Why did England fail to carry out the terms of the Balfour declaration?
The British realized that as wealthy as British Jews were, only the Arabs had access to non-Russian petroleum and sought to placate the Arabs for a better chance at having access to their oil. This strategy was not terribly successful and ended up alienating the British from the Jewish Zionists (for failing to live up to the terms of the Mandate) and from Arabs (who would never forgive the British for not entirely rescinding the Mandate and forcing the Jews to go back to Europe).
When Israel was recognized how many Arabs fled?
It is important to note that Israel being recognized by foreign countries was not what caused the Arab flight from Israel. There were three factors that led to the Arab flight which were: Jewish/Israeli attacks on Arab neighborhoods during the Jewish-Arab Engagement of 1947-1949, Arab fear of mistreatment in any future non-Arab state, and incitement to leave by Mullahs and Arab Political leaders who promised resettlement in those areas after the conflict. After the war, which Israel won, Arabs were not allowed the Right of Return which made their flight a memorable historical event.
There are an incredible number of estimates floating around as to how many Arabs left. The most common number accepted by Academics is 700,000, but there are conservative estimates that place the number at around 450,000-500,000 and there are much more liberal estimates that place the number close to 1.2 million.
Was Judah's name changed to Israel?
No. It was Judah's father Jacob whose name was changed to Israel.
What country is Israel next to?
west Egypt, east Lebanon, southeastern Jordan south syria near east palestinian territories
Is the current nation of Israel descended from the nation of Israel mentioned in the Old Testament?
Simply put. Yes.
See the answer below to get an idea as to how they left and returned.
What happened simultaneously in Greece and Israel during the year of 753 BC?
Not a lot was happening, see the link below, this was the most information I could find.
What theories are there on possible locations of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel?
Answers from various contributors:
There seems to be a theory based on a religion that started in the carribean, according to them they are descendants of one the tribes of israel the religion that i speak of is the rasatafarin religion. Some historians believe the lost 10 tribes of Israel migrated west to populate what we know as Europe, Australia and the United States. However, there is a branch of the Tribe of Judah that is in Ethiopia that are the descendents of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
Answer 2
Several years ago in Biblical Archaeological Review, an article appeared that discussed this question. Apparently there are towns in northern Iran and Iraq where family names exist similar to those from Israel, which the Assyrians conquered in 722 BCE. Most of the residents of the towns of Israel were carried off and dispersed throughout Assyria, and the remnants of these people apparently still live in these remote regions of Iran and Iraq.
Jewish Answer:
When they were carried into captivity (traditional date: 555 BCE), the Ten Tribes were brought at first to Assyria, but later spread further afield, to points now unknown.
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.
The districts of Israel are: the North (Galilee) , the Middle (Tel Aviv, Jerusalem), and the South.
How does the Dome of the Rock relate to Judaism?
The Dome of the Rock Shrine does not relate to Judaism. It relates to Islam.
The actual "rock" in the Dome of the Rock, is the considered by Jews to be the holiest part of the Temple Mount and therefore the holiest place in the world for Judaism. (However, since Jews believe that only the High Priest can visit such a holy site, Jews are forbidden by religious law to come any closer than the Western Wall.) The Shrine itself is a Muslim holy site.
The capital of Israel is Jerusalem.
West Jerusalem was established as the national capital in 1950; and in 1980 the Jerusalem Law made the entire unified city of Jerusalem the Israeli capital.
The Debate
It is understandable that Israel, being of holy significance to 3 major religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) and being one of the most fought-over and conquered pieces of land in the history of mankind, will spark a monsoon of debate, as to who owns what. But, the fact remains that the capital of Israel was proclaimed by the Israeli government and this capital is Jerusalem.
The issue that a lot of international groups have with the Israeli Declaration that Jerusalem is its capital is that the city defined by the Israelis as Jerusalem contains both de jureIsraeli territory (West Jerusalem) and the de jurenon-Israeli territory (East Jerusalem) which is owed, theoretically, to a Palestinian State. The UN Security Council Resolution 478 crystallized the international stance on this issue. If Israel, like East Germany, claimed that half of a city was its operating capital (i.e. West Jerusalem - but East Berlin in the German case), many international observers would have fewer objections to recognizing it as the capital of Israel. However, as the official Israeli capital contains territory that is not technically Israeli, many organizations and countries prefer to treat Tel Aviv, a city that is unequivocally Israeli and the site of David Ben Gurion's Declaration of Independence, as the working capital. Therefore, all embassies in Israel are in Tel Aviv.
Who is an older race Palestine or Israel?
The word "race" is wrong here. There are only a few races in the world: White, Black, Olive, Indian, American Indian, East Asian, and Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander. A better word here is "ethnicity".
Concerning Israel: There is also no "Israel" ethnicity. The dominant ethnicity of Israel is Jewish. The Jews have been in existence for at the minimum 2500 years, as verified by historians. According to their traditions they have been in existence for 3800 years.
Concerning Palestine: The Palestinian identity has really only existed since the 1950s and 1960s. It previously refered to any inhabitant of Mandatory Palestine, regardless of whether they were Jewish, Muslim, Christian, or Druze and regardless of whether they were Zionist, Zionist-affiliates, or opposed to Zionism. (For example, the right-wing Israeli newspaper "The Jerusalem Post" used to be called "The Palestinian Post", even though it was run entirely by Jews.) The Palestinian identity applies to those people who historically identified as Levantine Arabs. The Levantine Arabs are an amalgam of different Levantine peoples who began to acquire a new homogenous Arab identity in the days of the Islamic Caliphates. The Levantine Arab identity coalesced roughly 800-900 years ago. Prior to that there were numerous different ethnicities such as Aramean, Phoenician, Canaanite, Samaritan, Moabite, Ammonite, etc. whose descendants were subsumed into the Levantine Arab identity. Since they were disunited, it would be unfair to consider them one ethnicitiy.
Jews (as a unified idenity) have existed for at least three times as long as Levantine Arabs (as a unified identity).
How far is it from Wichita KS to Bethlehem Israel?
Roughly 6,730 miles via the shortest (great circle) route.
Which lost tribe of Israel are Bahamians from?
There is no scientific evidence that the people of the Bahamas are in any way connected to the Tribes of Israel. If anything, the Lost Tribes of Israel would be assimilated into the Middle East. The Black Israelite Churches believe that this is the case regardless of this evidence. They also believe this in spite of the facts that many of the peoples they consider to be Israelite Tribes are either wholly or partially mixed with non-Blacks (such as Whites or Native-Americans). This should cause major theological problems since the Black Israelites' claim to be the true Israelites rests on the fact that they were moved by ships and sold in distant lands which did not occur for either Whites or Native-Americans.
According to the Black Israelite Churches, the following are the correlations between the Tribes:
Reuben - Seminoles
Simeon - Dominicans
Levi - Haitians
Judah - African-Americans
Issachar - Mexicans
Zebulun - Central Americans
Gad - North American Native Americans
Asher - Northern South Americans
Dan - ??? Not usually specified or confused with Manasseh
Naphtali - Argentinians and Chileans
Ephraim - Puerto Ricans
Manasseh - Cubans
Benjamin - West Indies
Although several of these tribes are overlapping (Aren't all Seminoles also North American Native Americans and aren't Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic part of the West Indies?), none of them seems to deal explicitly with Bahamians. Since the allocation is entirely arbitrary and without grounding anyway and "Dan" has never been properly assigned, let's make "Dan" the Tribe for the Bahamians.
Why did the Jews leave Judea after the AD 132 revolt?
Some left, but many remained. There was a Jewish community of hundreds of thousands in Judea until three hundred years after the event which you named, and the Talmud provides names and locations of tens of their congregations and communities.
Those who did leave, did so because of the Roman and Christian persecutions. See also:
The history of the Jews in the land called Canaan/Israel/Judea/Palestine
Does the population of Israel affect the country?
It affects because of you.
It also has the effect of making it a lot more crowded....
Seriously, Israel has one of the most diverse populations in the World.
You will find Jews who were expelled from Muslim countries, like Yemen,Egypt,Ethiopia and others, Christian Arabs who came from Lebanon, Muslim Arabs originally from Saudi Arabia and Syria, as well as Jews who are descended from survivors of the Holocaust in Europe and the expulsion from Spain.
Over 20% of the population is not Jewish and these are Caucasians,Bedouin,Druse and Samaritans, who are linked to both cultures, as are the Kareim.There are even Messianic Jews who believe in Jesus, but insist they are Jewish.
All these cultures mix and make up the population of Israeli citizens and this makes for an extremely wide range of foods, restaurants, cultural differences and political points of view.
To live in Israel happily, you have to be very tolerant and respect other cultures.
