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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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When and Why was the Dome of the Rock built in Jerusalem?
The Dome of the Rock is an Islamic Shrine located on the Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary). This happens to be the same location as the Temple Mount. According to Islam, Mohammed ascended to heaven at this location.
The Dome of the Rock is located in Jerusalem at the foot of the Mount of Olives. It is basically a shrine with a Gold Dome Roof. It is said that Mohammad flew to Heaven on a winged horse from this same exact spot. It is the third most holy landmark in the Muslim religion. Mecca is the first most holy place. Medina is the second most holy place and The Dome of The Rock is the third. Incidentally, the Dome of The Rock is in the exact same spot that the Jewish Temple has been two previous times before. In The Holy Bible God advised Solomon that the Temple was to be erected on that one particular site and no where else. These places are called holy, but nothing can be truly holy other than God.
What is the main language of Israel?
The main language of Israel is Hebrew.
A large portion of Israelis who were born in Israel are the children of parents who came from another country, and they heard virtually any language you can name in their home as they grew up.
All street signs and highway directions in Israel are printed in Hebrew, Arabic, and English.
There are about 1 million people who speak Russian, and most people in Israel speak some level of English. English is taught everywhere, and holds a semi-official status. Most street signs and highway instructions in the country are posted in Hebrew, Arabic, and English.
Street/road signs are posted in Hebrew, Arabic, and English.
Radio and TV broadcasts are in Hebrew, Arabic, and English.
The most common household language is Hebrew, followed by Arabic and English.
Newspapers are published in Hebrew, Arabic, and English.
Business is conducted in Hebrew, Arabic, and English.
English, Russian and to some extent Amharic are common but not official, though English is taught as a second language and occurs on many signs (road signs, product labels) together with Hebrew and Arabic, and Russian is also often used in various contexts.
The primary official language in Israel is Hebrew. The majority of the population know some English, and many of the population are fluent in English. Arabic is widely spoken, as are the languages of the countries from which immigrants have come to Israel in the past 70 years; a few of those are Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Spain, China, Germany, France, Greece, Egypt, Ethiopia, Turkey, Roumania, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Portugal, Netherlands, and several others.
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The role of the citizens in Israel is to vote for the Members of the Knesset, Israel's Parliament. Additionally, most Israeli citizens must serve in the Israeli Army and/or do community service. Israeli citizens perform many of the functions of citizens in other liberal democracies like protesting and assembling peacefully, engaging in their religious traditions or atheism, contributing the national debate on major issues, and speaking their minds.
What are names Israel has been called throughout time?
Palestine, Southwest Levant, Canaan, Judea, Idumea, Syria-Palaestina
What happened in Israel in 1992?
Israeli PM Ehud Barak entered negotiations with Arafat under the supervision of Pres. Clinton. Barak agreed to almost all of Arafat's demands, returning 95% of the territory and a 5% swap of Israeli territory. However Bark did not agree to hand over sovereignty of the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site to the PA (the site is currently under de facto control of the Muslim Wakft).
Arafat responded to this by cutting off negotiations and authorizing a wave of terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians which lasted for several years.
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What are the main problems in Israel?
- Making peace with the Palestinians - Fatah and Hamas.
- Making peace with neighboring countries
- Threats to existence from Iran and Hezbollah
- Lack of water
- Disagreements between segments of the population
Why did Britain support the Zionist movement?
Just as a point of clarity, the British Mandate for Palestine was a Mandate, not a colony, so purely from a terminology standpoint, Britain did not colonize Israel. Britain founded a mandate there. The difference between these two terms is very relevant and helps explain the "why" here. A colony is a territory distant from the central point of governance and without a direct land-route to the metropole within its borders. A colony is a long-term occupation of the territory and the attempt to acquire its resources and manpower for an unlimited period of time. By contrast, a mandate is a territory overseen by a metropole in order to promote its own self-governance and eventual independence.
The British Mandate for Palestine was designed in the early 1920s to provide British oversight for the development of an independent Jewish Homeland in the Middle East. The assumption was that Middle Easterners were not mentally and sociologically ready to govern a modern state and would, therefore, need British (or in the case of Syria and Lebanon, French) help in order to forge such a state. The British were only too happy to oblige themselves the control over the land because of its Biblical significance and the British Israelite phenomenon. As the Mandate become more violent, usually because of internecine conflicts between Zionist Jews and Palestinian Arabs and their contemporaneous, but not joint, attacks on British leadership, the British decided that the Mandate was not worth the effort to maintain it and withdrew their troops in 1948, before a new government could effectively be molded.
Which city is located closest to the Sea of Galilee Brussels Beirut Berlin or Bordeaux?
Tiberias is on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Where is jerusalem located in africa?
No. Jerusalem is in Israel/Palestine, which is situated on the southwest end of Asia. The universally accepted border between Africa and Asia is the Suez Canal, which is 175 miles west of Jerusalem.
What body of water is located on the border of Jordan and Israel?
The River of Jordan is connected to the Dead Sea. Both of these are very major water sources for this area.
What nation has part of the dead sea and the Sea of Galilee within its boundaries?
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Who owns the property of the holy places in Israel?
Answer 1
Israel controls access to the ones that are in Israel, which is arguably the main reason that followers of all faiths with holy places in Israel have free and secure access to those places.
Answer 2
To say that the Israeli government controls the Holy Places in Israel is not entirely accurate.
The Jewish Holy Sites are administered directly by the Israeli government ministries devoted to religious matters, which have heavy Orthodox Jewish membership. The Dome of the Rock Shrine and the Al-Aqsa Mosque are maintained and managed by the Islamic Waqf which is a Palestinian/Jordanian Islamic organization which has minimal ties with the Israeli government and has actively promoted anti-Zionist propaganda. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is officially owned by the Palestinian Muslim Nusseibeh family which holds onto the keys of the Church in order to prevent any particular Christian denomination from having control of the church and ostensibly preventing others from worshiping. The Church is used according to the Status Quo Agreement, which stipulates how often each Christian group can use the facility. The Druze community owns and maintains Nabi Shu'ayb (The Tomb of Jethro) which is a Druze holy site in Israel.
What does Israels clothing look like?
Generally they look like more refined people of the middle east. Hair is usually darkish brown, skin is a pretty, medium brown. Striking features. Usually brown eyes. They just look normal, average height generally.
Who was the first queen of Israel?
Golda Meir was the first and only female Israeli Prime Minister, 1969-1974
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Answer 1
Yes, Israel is a bad country because Allah did not give them a home land because Allah hates them a lot . so for a home land they are fighting Palestine to rule the country . This is written by Allah in holy Qur'an.
Answer 2
No. Israel is a good country. People have freedom of speech, faith, and assembly. The police protect the people instead of harassing them. All Israeli Citizens have the right to an education and the ability to vote (once they reach the age of 18). There are currently three Israeli-Arab parties in the Israeli Parliament who vocally criticize Israeli policy (as opposed to Iran where the Jewish representative is a puppet only). Whenever Israel is accused of maltreating its Arab minorities or the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, they mount a full-scale inquiry and these inquiries have, on occasion, presented strong indictments of Israeli policy to the Israeli Government. The Israeli Army is subordinate to the Civilian Government.
As concerns the previous answer, the Holy Qur'an proves that the Jews have rights to the State of Israel (5:20-21, 17:100-104, 26:59) and there is no verse that describes Palestinians, the Levant (Bilaad Ash-Sham), or Arab territorial rights to any place in Israel. Jerusalem/Al-Qods is never actually mentioned, although it is alluded to. A wondrous event took place there, but there is certainly no mention of territorial control or ownership of Jerusalem. This is as opposed to Mohammed actively claiming that Arabia belongs to Muslims in various Hadiths.
As concerns the claim of genocide, which some argue Israel is performing, I invite people to go to the Related Question below which explains step by step why what Israel is doing in the Palestinian Territories is not genocide. Israel does reserve the right, like all countries to prevent violence being perpetrated against its citizenry. Nobody objects to the Russian quashing of Chechen rebels, the Indonesian quashing of Acehnese, nor the Pakistani quashing of the Balochis (except the members of these particular groups) even though these result in a much higher percentage of civilian casualties in the death tolls. The reason that these are "acceptable" is that there is no dispute that Russia, Indonesia, and Pakistan have a right to self-defense. For some reason, people are not willing to concede that part of nationhood to Israel, which is far more liberal socially and politically than Russia, Indonesia, and Pakistan.
As concerns the stifling of Palestinian growth, the West Bank is currently seeing the highest rate of economic growth anywhere in the Middle East (roughly 6% annually) under the leadership of the Palestinian Authority's Salaam Fayyad. New businesses are being developed and opened, infrastructure is growing, and even though the Occupation is still a major concern, Israel is not preventing these good signs. Hamas, and Ismail Haniyeh in particular, prefer to engage in active and passive warfare rather than building a structured economy and the Palestinians in Gaza have been the unfortunate recipients of what that policy yields.
What kind of food do Israelis eat for Hanukkah?
Most Israel people have grandparents or great-grandparents who grew up in over 100 different countries, and when the families came to Israel, they brought not only their styles of everyday cuisine with them, but also their own traditional holiday dishes.
If you wanted to nail them all down to just a few cultural backgrounds, those might be the Ashkenazi from eastern Europe and Russia, the Sefardi from the countries of the Spanish and Portuguese empires, and the Mizrachi from what is now the Arab/Persian world. But even within one of those categories, you would find a broad spectrum of tastes and traditions, reflecting many countries and many centuries. Just like the modern state of Israel itself.
Jelly donuts have become popular for Hanukkah in Israel in recent years. For Ashkenazim, latkes (potato pancakes) are traditional.
What does Israel currency look like?
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http://www.worldwide-tax.com/israel/images/test.jpg
http://www.kumah.org/blog/shekel.jpg
http://www.kniht.com/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/shekel.jpg
Did Israel enter into world war 2?
The country of Israel did not exist in WW II. Israel was established in 1948. WW II ended in 1945.
What river is a key water source for Israel Lebanon and Syria?
The Jordan River is the/a key water source to Israel, Lebanon and Syria.
How far is Jerusalem from the dead sea?
The Tel Aviv beach is about 40 mins away by Car.
The Dead Sea is about 1.15min away by Car.
