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Many Palestinians became refugees living in camps in Syria and Lebanon.

There is tension in Palestine today because of the conflict of the Jews and the Arabs. After WW II, the Jews wanted a refuge for themselves, and they wanted it in Palestine. But, both the Arabs and the Jews found Jerusalem a Holy City, and the Arabs didn't want Jews in their "claimed" city. Today, Palestine is split, one part for the Arabs, and another for the Jews. I found this website helpful. http://www.myjewishlearning.com/israel/History/1948-1967/Birth_of_Israel.shtml

The Israelites at that time 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, nearly four 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).

Their usage of the expression "like the other nations around us" was not a problem, since they were deliberately quoting the Torah (Deuteronomy 17:14).

What then was their mistake?

According to the Malbim commentary (on 1 Samuel), they should have waited at least until Samuel was too old to function.

According to the K'li Yakar commentary (on Deuteronomy), their precise choice of language ("for us," instead of the "over us" which the Torah had said), hinted that they wanted a king who might be affected by public pressure (which later happened with Rehoboam). See Talmud, Yoma 22b.

According to Samuel himself (1 Samuel 8:10-18), they were taking a regrettable risk because later kings might be overbearing.

One more point: in Judaism we have a general rule which is called "the descent of the generations." This means that according to our tradition, the earlier a generation lived, the higher was their spiritual level (Talmud, Shabbat 112b). No Talmud-sage would dare to negate a verse of the Prophets; and no later Rabbi would dare to belittle a Talmud-sage.

For this reason, we must not judge that generation. And concerning Saul, our tradition explicitly states that he was a righteous man (Talmud, Moed Katan 16b; and Midrash Breishit Rabah 54:4); and he unified the Israelites and defeated their enemies round about (1 Samuel 14:47).

After the war many European Jews had no place to go and it was decided that part of Palestine would become a Jewish state.

The founding of the nation of Israel after w.w.2 originates in a letter sent by British Foreign Secretary Arthur J. Balfour to Lord Rothschild, (the banker) and leader of the British Jewish community Nov.2nd 1917,which stated that at an Oct. 31 1917 meeting of the British Cabinet, the U.K. supported plans by the Zionist Federation for a Jewish national home in Palestine, though nothing should be done to prejudice the civil or religious rights of existing communities there. The Zionst Fed. had previosuly approached the Ottoman Empirand the Kaiser on this but were rebuffed. Although the Balfour Declaration promised nothing, it was interpreted with some differently. After W.W.2 the Jewish influx into Palestine was so great that the U.K. tried to restrict the numbers but ended up caught in the middle of the Jews and Arabs Conflict,being attacked by both sides, and by 1948 was forced to leave the two sides to their fate,which can be seen today, with a sympathetic view from whatever side you look at it. There was even a possbility at one time of a homeland in Uganda and Argentina.

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Israel is the Only true Democracy in the Middle East. As such, Israel and the US are ALLIES and, as any allied country does, both trade information, military operations, intelligence weapons etc... Therefore the US does provide some financial aid to Israel whereas Israel provides a strategic neutral zone in the middle East for America to safely visit and use as they need.

Israel has donated not only to global humanitarian efforts such as Katrina, the Tsunami of 2004 and the genocide in Darfur, but Israel actually goes out of its way to aid the the victims of its attackers in its ongoing defensive efforts.

Most often Israel does not provide aid in the form of money (because of the fact that it cannot afford to), but with human and technological resources.

It was called the Camp David Accords of 1979. The basic terms of the treaty were that Israel would withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula in phases until 1982 and return it to Egypt. Egypt, in turn, would recognize the State of Israel and maintain the Sinai Peninsula as a demilitarized zone.

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Also a few items in the fields of high-technology, science-based industries such as

electronics, advanced computer and communications systems, aircraft, software,

and weapons, chemicals, plastics, metals, food, and medical and industrial equipment,

plus some activity on the side in Israel's diamond-cutting and polishing industry,

centered in Tel Aviv, the largest in the world and a significant source of foreign

exchange. But perfumed hair-spray and souvenir sand from the Dead Sea are

still the foundation of the entire vibrant national economy.

Religious affiliation in Israel, as of 2005:

Jewish: 76.3%

Muslim: 16.1%

Christian: 2.1%

Druze: 1.6%

Other: 3.9%

The Jewish 76.3% were distributed as follows:

Secular: 33%

Traditionally observant: 30%

Orthodox: 7%

Ultra-orthodox: 6%

Israel declared independence and the Arab Nations declared war on it.

All of those places border Israel.

No, Israel is a democracy. There are kibbutzim (communal farms) in Israel which are run according to socialist principles, and also many Russian Jews that came to live in Israel. Both of these factors may have a communist influence on society, but the political system is democratic.

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Moses (Numbers ch.21).

Before the Israeli declaration of independence in 1948, the land was the British Mandate of Palestine. The United Nations had decided to split Palestine into four zones, with two zones going to the Jews and two zones to the Palestinians, providing approximately half of the former Palestine to each. The Palestinian share was gradually reduced, until the UN defined a "Green Line", providing the Palestinians somewhat more than the 1967 borders.

Ezer Weizman (עזר ויצמן) was the President of Israel in 1999.

However, it is worth noting that the Presidency of Israel is primarily a ceremonial position (head of state), with true power vested in the Prime Minister of Israel (head of government). In the first half of 1999, Benyamin Netanyahu was the Prime Minister, and in the second half of 1999, it was Ehud Barak.

The question is quite ambiguous ... any way you look at it, the phrase "palestine countries"

seems to contradict itself.

On land set aside by a majority vote in the UN General Assembly, the residents of

that land declared it a sovereign nation in May, 1948, and named it Israel. It was

immediately attacked by the combined military forces of several of its neighbors,

lost a significant portion of the original area, but survived the attack. It was soon

admitted as a member of the United Nations, and now is recognized by, and has

mutual diplomatic relations with, all but about 30 other countries in the world.

The UN General Assembly also set aside adjacent land for administration by the

primarily Arab residents of that area. That portion was not declared a distinct

nation, and was absorbed into the Kingdom of Jordan.

Today, Israel is bordered by Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. The Gaza Strip,

considered to be part of "Palestine", is part of Egypt ruled by Hamas. The West Bank

of the Jordan, considered to be part of "Palestine", is legally a part of the Kingdom of

Jordan, and is currently administered by Israel out of security considerations. The Golan

Heights, considered by some to be part of "Palestine", is legally a part of Syria, and is

currently administered by Israel out of security considerations.

Yes and No. The Golan Heights is part of Syrian Sovereign Territory, but has been under legal Israeli Occupation since 1967. This occupation is due to UNSC Resolutions 242 and 338/339 which hold that Israel can occupy the Golan Heights until Syria and Israel sign a formal peace treaty. Currently Syrians cannot go to the Golan Heights as a result of the Israeli Occupation.

Cohen, Levi, Mizrachi, Peretz, Biton, Friedman, Katz.

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Anwar Sadat (أنور السادات), the Prime Minister of Egypt, concluded a peace treaty with Israel, got Israel to return the Sinai Peninsula and its oil resources to Egyptian sovereignty in the process, and was assassinated by Egyptian militants for his efforts.

The southern highlands that comprised Judah were infertile and rain was sparse, so there were few large towns. Israel occupied the rather more fertile northern highlands and the Jezreel Valley, which could support a larger population with walled towns and cities. Israel was, for a short period, a minor regional power, while Judah was an impoverished rural community. Kings Omri and Ahab seem to have expanded the borders of Israel considerably, although this state of affairs did not last very long. The disadvantages that Israel faced were to be found in its location and its prosperity. Being close to regional powers such as Assyria meant that Israel faced constant risk of conquest. Judah, on the other hand, was remote and sufficiently poor that it usually did not attract much attention from its neighbours. A number of things changed all this around the time of the destruction of Israel in 732 BCE: * Camels had been domesticated and were beginning to be used extensively for transport across desert regions. Trade from Babylonia no longer needed to follow the long route around the fertile crescent, but could cross modern-day Jordan to the Mediteranean Sea. Jerusalem became an important stopover, bringing considerable new wealth to Judah. * Changes to agricultural practices enabled Judah to support a much larger population. There may also have been a long-term increase in rainfall. * The influx of refugees from Israel provided a sudden, dramatic increase in the population of Judah, just at a time when the other factors made this sustainable. Judah began to expand and fortify its larger settlements, and increase its military power, although ultimately not to the extent that it could assert any real independence from the regional powers.