Israel

In verse 1:1, Isaiah introduces himself as the son of Amoz and says that he is writing about events in Judah and Jerusalem during the reigns of Kings Uzziah (Azariah), Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah. Of course, he does not say his witness includes the entire reign of Uzziah, but even the reigns of just Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah spanned 55 years and Isaiah was a prophet in Judah for at least 40 of those years, during the late eighth and early seventh centuries BCE.

Isaiah, son of Amoz - also known as First Isaiah - should not be confused with an anonymous prophet now known as Second Isaiah, who lived during the latter part of the Babylonian Exile and was the author of Isaiah chapters 40 to 55, or with Third Isaiah, who lived in Judah some time after the Return from Exile.

It depends on your country of origin.

Most First World Countries (US, Canada, European Countries, Japan, South Korea, Australia, South Africa, etc.) can enter Israel without a VISA for 90 days of tourism. Most African and Asian countries cannot do so.

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No. New Jersey is larger than Israel.

Israel is 8,019 sq. mi. and New Jersey is 8,721 sq. mi.

The 12 tribes consists of 10 of Jacob's sons and 2 of his grandsons. Levi and Joseph aren't tribes.

1. Lea is the mother of: Reuben, Simeon, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun

2. Rachel is Benjamin's mother

3. Bilhah: Dan, Naphtali

4. Zilpah: Gad, Asher

- Joseph's two sons from Osnat: Efraim, Menashe

They all share the Jordan River and its tributary the Yarmouk River. However, the Syrian access to the Jordan River proper has been cut off by the Israeli Acquisition of the Eastern Bank of the Sea of Galilee in 1967 as well as Israeli control of the Golan Heights. (Syria retains access to the Yarmouk River.)

Mother's Day in Israel (known as Yom Ha'em) is marked on Shevat 30. This can fall anywhere between January 30 and March 1.

Benjamin Netanyahu has had a very long career. He has consistently been seen as the leader of Israel's center-right Likud (Conservative) Party. In Israel, he has relative popularity because of his aggressive and dogged defense of Israeli interests on the international stage, but is less popular on domestic issues. However, Netanyahu has a number of detractors on the international stage for exactly those reasons that make him popular in Israel: an aggressive foreign policy.

The prime minister is elected by a majority of the members of parliament. Often this requires the parties to form coalitions if no one party has a majority.

More Israelis live in apartments, but it is not by much. Israel is much like the United States or United Kingdom in that the city centers are packed with people living in cramped apartments, but the rural areas and small towns are almost all single-family dwellings.

Primarily Palestinian Arab, except for those who remained in Israel after its creation.

(This was long after the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Jebusites, Girgashites, and Perizites,

who eventually came to accept the existence of the Jewish state in their midst.)

Israel had nothing to do with the Iraq War from 2003-2011 and therefore contributed no soldiers to the effort. Israeli involvement would have further inflamed Arabs over the Iraqi occupation and would probably have mobilized Saudi Arabia and Iran to enter the war on Iraq's behalf.

Both Lebanon and Egypt border Israel and touch the Mediterranean Sea. Gaza, a Palestinian territory, does too.

I did it in three days, following the rocky shoreline. It is hard slow walking.

In 2011 according to CBS there were 327,750 Israelis living in the west bank and an additional 190,000 living in East Jerusalem.

The combined growth rate for the Jewish population in these areas was 5.2% and has been stable for the past 20 years, whereas the Arab population of the west bank grows at the rate of 2.0%.

By these projections the Jewish population is set to become the majority in the West Bank within 45 years

Syria and Israel theoretically share a border, but they are separated by the UNDOF forces which occupy a no-man's land between them.

However, Syria and Israel both border Jordan and Lebanon. In the case of Lebanon, there is no land border with any nation other than Syria or Israel.

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Israel was created as a nation with a Jewish majority and it has laws that make special provisions favoring Jewish Immigration. As such, it is a Jewish nation. The largest religious minority in Israel are Muslims, with Christians coming in third place. The Israeli government recognizes Jewish, Isamic and Christian authority over religious matters such as marriage and divorce.

It represents the sacrifice of Jews rather than submit to Roman defeat...

Israel was established as a homeland for the Jewish people and is often referred to as the Jewish state. The country's Law of Return grants all Jews and those of Jewish lineage the right to Israeli citizenship. Just over three quarters, or 76.1%, of the population are Jews from a diversity of Jewish backgrounds. Approximately sixty-eight percent of Israeli Jews are Israeli-born, twenty-two percent are immigrants from Europe and the Americas, and ten percent are immigrants from Asia and Africa (including the Arab world). The religious affiliation of Israeli Jews varies widely: eight percent define themselves as "Haredi Jews" and twenty percent consider themselves "secular Jews". The majority of Israeli Jews, fifty-five percent, say they are "traditional," The remaining seventeen percent define themselves as Orthodox Jews Making up 16.2% of the population, Muslims constitute Israel's largest religious minority. Israeli Arabs, who comprise 19.8% of the population, contribute significantly to that figure as over four fifths (82.6%) of them are Muslim. Of the remaining Israeli Arabs, 8.8% are Christian and 8.4% are Druze. Members of many other religious groups, including Buddhists and Hindus, maintain a presence in Israel, albeit in small numbers.