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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
How did Operation Cast Lead start?
Depending on who you ask, Israel or Gaza could have started the conflict.
Gazan Perspective: It's Israel's Fault
Israel broke the peace treaty and subsequently launched operation 'Cast Lead' a massive military offensive against a civilian population. It banned foreign press from entering Gaza. It used white phosphorus (a chemical weapon) on UN sanctioned hospitals and schools (a war crime). Within 23 days the death toll had reached 1,284 Palestinians dead, 6 IDF by enemy fire and 3 IDF by friendly fire. When the operation had finished Israel had claimed more land from the Gaza strip in the name of security zones for their protection.
Israeli Perspective: It's Hamas' Fault
Hamas failed to control both its own militants and those of the group Islamic Jihad to abide by the terms of the hudna (ceasefire) that they had negotiated with Israel and did not seem interested in renegotiating. They fired large volleys of rockets repeatedly into Israeli territory. After growing Israeli resentment over the attacks, the Israeli government saw fit to use a military incursion to stop the rocket bombardments.
How do you say i like you in Israel?
ani ohev otcha ( i love you) ata nechmad (you are nice) ata ala kefach (you are outasight)
Why was Israel called the Holy Land?
Because Israel and the area around it is where most of the bible is set and where Jesus lived. Jerusalem, BEthlemhem etc all there
Answer:
Because God himself promised this land to Jacob (Genesis ch.28), ancestor of the Israelites, and because the Holy Temple stood there.
In what country is Hebrew spoken and why?
Hebrew is spoken in the State of Israel, mainly due to the efforts of Eliezer ben-Yehuda, who revived the modern language of Hebrew. Hebrew was chosen because it is the language of the Jews.
Did the US send a lot of Jews to Israel?
No, at least not from a governmental position. The United States, unlike many countries, has never forcibly deported its Jewish citizens or put them in a social, political, or economic climate where leaving the United States was the only viable option. On the flip side, the United States has never incentivized (monetarily or politically) for American Jews to go to Israel. The only Jews that America assisted to get to Israel were a small minority of Holocaust survivors. Most Holocaust survivors who did get to Israel did so without American assistance.
While there are many American Jews in Israel, this is more of a function of how many Jews in the world there are in total after the Holocaust destroyed much of European Jewry. There are larger Israeli communities of Russian, Moroccan, and Iraqi Jews than American Jews.
How did the Kingdom of Israel develop and who were some of its key leaders?
Prior to the Kingdom was the era of the Judges; three centuries from Joshua until Samuel.
The Israelites, at the time of Samuel, 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, more than three 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).
They asked Samuel for a king, and he anointed Saul at the command of God. After Saul was found wanting, Samuel anointed King David.
Some of the key leaders of the kingdom:
David, Solomon, Yehoshaphat, Hizkiah, Yoshiah.
Complete list of kings:
1) The united kingdom: the kings were Saul, David, Solomon.
2) The kingdom of Judah (Southern Kingdom): Rehav'am (Rehoboam), Aviyah (Abijah), Asa, Yehoshaphat (Jehoshaphat), Yehoram (Jehoram), Ahaziah, queen Athaliah, Yehoash (Jehoash), Amatziah (Amaziah), Uzziah, Yotam (Jotham), Ahaz, Hizkiah (Hezekiah), Menasheh (Manasseh), Amon, Yoshiah (Josiah), Yehoahaz (Jehoahaz), Yehoyakim (Jehoiakim), Yehoyachin (Jehoiachin, a.k.a. Jeconiah), Tzidkiah (Zedekiah).
3) The kingdom of Israel (Northern Kingdom; Samaria): Yerav'am (Jeroboam), Nadav (Nadab), Baasha, Elah, Zimri, Omri, Ah'av (Ahab), Ahaziah, Yoram (Joram), Yehu (Jehu), Yehoahaz (Jehoahaz), Yehoash (Jehoash), Yerav'am (Jeroboam II), Zachariah, Shallum, Menachem, Pekahiah, Pekah, Hoshea.
What type of city was galilee?
Galilee is not a city. It is an expansive green hilly area in what is now northern Israel. It has some cities in it, such as Haifa and Acre on its western edge, Karmiel and Safed in its center, Tiberias on its eastern edge, and Kiryat Shemonah in the far north. There are also many Israeli Arab towns and villages.
How was the Arab-Israeli conflict resolved?
Unfortunately, the conflict has not yet ended. There's no way that anyone can predict how, or when, it will end.
Your question should be for what are the Children of Israel chosen for.
What country existed where Israel is today?
- The country was originally called Palestine. refer to the Ancient Greek records that confirm this information.
- The Jews were never held by the Pharaoh as slaves. They came to Egypt as refugees when the prophet Joseph (Yusuf), son of Jacob, was minister of finance in Egypt. They were enjoying their stay in Egypt to the extent that when they escaped Egypt they had enough gold to make the cow of gold that they worshiped in absence of Moses.
- The land of Palestine is called as such historically even in Greek history books and was never called Israel as claimed above. Israel is a second name of prophet Jacob.
- Palestine land was never empty from people especially that most of their lands are fertile and good for agriculture besides their good harbors. Could you believe that a land is empty while on the boarders of the Ancient Egyptian civilization lands.
- Arabs didn't come to the middle East. They are already an original part of the middle East even before the time of Prophet Abraham (or Ibrahim in Arabic).
- when Arabs (or Muslims) took control of Palestine, Jews were very little minority while the majority were Christians. No single Jew was killed by Muslims when they got control of the lands. Simply because they didn't fight. Christians agree to give the church key to the Caliph Omar on condition they guarantee the freedom of worship and it was.
- How the Arabs deleted the history of the Jews in Palestine. If this is correct could you explain why didn't also delete the history of the Christians?. if true, then how they deleted it? and if really deleted then how do you know there was something and was deleted?
- Did you hear about Muslims killing any civilian in any country the took control of. Read the history about Muslims in Spain.
- check the history to see how Sultan Abdel Hamid of the Ottoman empire gave refugee to the Jews expelled from Spain when Christians got control of it. This explains why relatively there many Jews in Morocco. How claimed that they were killed again?
- in 1948, the UN didn't give Palestine to the Jews. UN agreed to partition Palestine between the Palestinian original people and the Jews who mainly immigrated from Europe to Palestine.
- Check the history of Palestine and the records of the Jewish immigration waves that came from all over the world to know who are the original people.
- Despite the above, the call is for all people living now in these lands to live together in love and peace under one country and one flag with equal rights to all its inhabitants irrelevant to their religion, culture, or language. Otherwise, no other solution except the partition into two independent states.
Why are the tribes collectively called Israel?
Because they were all the descendants of Jacob, whom God renamed Israel (Genesis ch.35). See also:
How do you get to Israel from the Philippines?
Depending on whether you are a tourist or looking to become a foreign worker, the paperwork necessary for a Filipino to go to Israel is different and the best place to find out what paperwork is necessary is most likely the Israeli Passport Office or the Filipino Passport Office.
As concerns the actual trip, there are only two possible ways to get from the Philippines to Israel: to fly by plane or take a ship from Manila to Eilat. I assume the plane flight is cheaper now as well as being significantly quicker.
What three rivers in Israel show the Hebrew letter shin over Israel?
Israel has 20 rivers, and you can make a Shin out of them in many different ways.
What is the altitude of Bethel in Israel?
Beit El is about 850 meters (2800 feet) above sea-level. Nearby Mount Artis is 905 meters high.
How did Judaism regain its holy land?
Blood, sweat, tears, conviction, and legal precedent.
The State of Israel came together as the result of Jewish immigration to the British Mandate of Palestine, Zionist leadership, Jewish militias and political and financial support from the West (primarily Jewish philanthropists). The first group are called the Halutzim or the Pioneers and they took it upon themselves to modernize Israel by cultivating the land and using European technology to improve its output and productivity. The Zionist leadership included some like Theodor Herzl, who envisioned the state, to Eliezer ben Yehuda, who developed Modern Hebrew as a functional language, to David Ben Gurion who declared Israel's independence and sovereignty, among many others. There were numerous Jewish militias defending the Halutzim and attacking the British (and eventually the Arabs when conflict started) such as the Palmach, the Haganah, and the Irgun. Finally, without the monetary contributions from families like the Rothschilds, there would have been no way for the nascent pre-governmental and governmental organizations to acquire enough capital to maintain an internal infrastructure.
Answer 1
Palestine For Arabs (Muslims + Christians)
The Arabs Were The First People Who Entered Palestine
By Many Thousands of years ago
And When Moses came to the Jewish people and went with them to palestine by the order of god but in the way most of them began to worship a golden goat so god ordered moses to let them lost in the desert of Sinaa (in Egypt) for 40 years and after his death in Jordan the Jewishs entered Palestine by a leader called Yousha'a bin noun and occopied it.
and in 1948 they occopied it again.
I Made a Documentary movie about the Arab-Israeli Conflict
It's in Arabic but i gonna translate it and publish it at youtube
I would like to add some information to your answer first, A braham peace be upon him had two sons one Ismail peace be upon him the father of the Arabs and Isaaq peace be upon him is the father of the Israelits the Israelites entered Palestine from the Arab Penensula and they were called Hebrews because they entered the River of Jordan" Hebrews means transition in Arabic abara-yaabur ,Hebrew and Arabic are very similar because both are semitics".
The prophet Moses received the "Message from God " Allah" in the Sinaai in Palestine "Al taoraa" in order to guide the Israelites from the wrong way and lead them to the right way in general some accepted the mesage and some refused it , God kept sending prophets from among the Israelites until the final prophet Isaa ' Jesus" peace be upon him he had no father his mother is Israelite Maream peace be upon her, so all the prophets of Israel were sent to the Israelis and to the Jews-I choose the term Israelis which it refers to the offspring of Israel " Yaqub peace be upon him" and Jews who are not the offspring of Israel.
But finally the prophet Mohammed ascended to Heaven from Alaqsa Mosque in Jerusalem ' Bait Al maqdis the Jewish religion had finished because the Israelis and the Jews did not fulfil the ten Commandments and did not obey God. God chose the descendent of Ismail to fulfill the message of God and obey Him by sending the revelation to Mohammed peace be upon him.
they called Israelites in relation to the Prophet Yaqub Peace be upon him his name was Israel and his children Al asbaat , the twelve children including Joseph peace be upon them all ,they were called the Israelites.
Answer 2
It honestly refers to the time in question. The Land of Palestine has passed between so many conquerors and nations that it could have belonged to anyone. In contravention to the claim above, the "Arabs" were not the first people to come to Palestine. The Arabs arrived with Caliph Omar's army of conquest in 634 CE. The Romans came before the Arabs did and the Romans conquered the territory from the control of the Hasmoneans, which were a Jewish Monarchy.
If you wish to make the argument that the people who would eventually become identified the Palestinian Arabs, which would have identified as Phoenician or Canaanites over two millennia ago, then it could be said that they are partial inheritors of the land as are the Israelites/Jews who have had a relatively consistent identity and sense of unity and who have lived in that land for over 3000 years.
What is the whole story of king saul and the witch or endor what exactly happened?
1Sam:28:14: And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.
1Sam:28:13: And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
The standard explanation that the text supports is that the witch summoned demons that impersonated Samuel in order to get him to completely give up...which he did by going into a hopeless battle and killing himself when the battle went poorly.
What events were happening in the holy land?
When? The Holy Land has been in existence 3000 years in its capacity as a holy land.
What was the capital of Israel while Israel was divided?
After the Kingdom of Israel split into the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the South Kingdom of Judah, there was a rapid succession of capitals in the North. The capitals of the North included: Shechem (now called Nablus), Penuel, and Tirzah, before settling on Samaria (Shomron). Jerusalem remained the capital of Judah up until the Babylonian Exile and during the Hasmonean Kingdom. Jerusalem is the current capital of the State of Israel although most nations refuse to officially recognize it as such because of its disputed status and maintain their embassies in Tel Aviv.
