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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
What time was the lamb killed in Egypt for israel freedom?
The actual time was not mentioned in the Bible, but it is written that the lamb was killed in the evening. Please see Exodus 12.6:
"and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening."
Why is David's reign as king was called Israel's Golden Age?
Isreal and Judah became one country; The central government was established in Jerusalem; The Ark was brought to Jerusalem and set in it's place in the Taberncale and people put God at the centre of their lives.
Why football clubs from israel kazakhstan compete in euro cups?
Politics, essentially.
Israel is in a funny position. A number of it's neighbours don't recognise the state of Israel, so there'd be issues with accepting an Israeli team into their countries. Moreover, given the history of that region, it could easily inflame already feisty tempers should an Israeli team go to, say, Iran.
Kazakhstan see themselves as having more in common with Europe than Asia. As a nation, they aim to be more western and their participation in European competitions helps with that.
It's not just those two. Australia now play in the Asian confederation as they'd outgrown the Oceania competition and the Australian FA felt they were stagnating. If they were to progress as a football nation, then they had to get a better level of competition. Beating American Samoa 31-0 doesn't help either side progress.
When is the lambing season in the Country of Israel?
Shepherds must keep watch over the flock by night during lambing season, when ewes giving birth might require assistance. Lambing season in the Middle East occurs in early to mid-March. Therefore, a celebration of Christmas which is biblically accurate would happen in early spring. Presumably, anyone concerned with the "wrong" observance of the holiday season will hold off on the gift-giving until around Ash Wednesday
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Why did the British rule Palestine in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948?
The British did not rule Palestine during the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9, leaving just before the war began. It was actually the British withdrawal from Mandatory Palestine that allowed Israel to declare independence. This declaration, in turn, was what precipitated the Arab invasion of the former British Mandate of Palestine and of Israel specifically.
As for why the British were ruling Mandatory Palestine from 1919-1948, this was as a result of the Treaty of Versailles which gave numerous former Ottoman Territories to Great Britain and France to supervise as they organized properly for their future independence.
Why did the Israelites flee Judea?
In the first century AD the Israelites revolted against the Roman Empire. In response, the Roman Empire mounted a full offensive against the whole Jewish nation and killed, captured or drove the all the Israelites from the entire area.
In the Year 70, The Romans renamed it Palestine, after an enemy of the Jews (the Phillistines).
Is there any problem of overpopulation in Israel?
Answer 1
1) Let me tell you a little story. At some point around the year 1920 or so, one of the high-ranking officials of the British Mandate did an extensive survey of the area that is now called Israel. After his careful study, he officially published the opinion that "the region between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean will certainly not be able to support a population of more than five hundred thousand."
Yet today Israel has seven million people. And still plenty of extra space.
2) In 1990, very large numbers of people from the former Soviet Union began emigrating to Israel. Within a just few years, one million of them had settled in Israel. Yes, there was a brief housing crunch, but that was followed by a massive upswing in new construction. Entire cities were built from scratch at that time (such as Modiin Illit and Betar). And the economic situation of these immigrants was and remains vastly better than what it had been in the USSR.
3) The Talmud (Ketubot 112b) assures us that Israel has a special quality which enables it, through God's blessing, to provide space and sustenance for those who live there.
Israel's population has increased twelvefold since 1948, while the quality of life has steadily gone up, not down.
Answer 2
Israel does have some problems on account of its sizable population, but none of them are unique to Israel. All of the surrounding countries have these problems and are typically in a worse position to ameliorate them than Israel is, since Israel's government actually functions.
The bigest overpopulation issue in Israel is water scarcity. The Sea of Galilee, Israel's largest freshwater body has seen its levels decrease. Correspondingly, Israel has invested heavily in desalination technology in an attempt to reverse the trend.
Unlike its neighbors (especially Egypt), Israel is a net exporter of food products and since it does not have the explosive growth rates of Arab countries, sees increases in farming efficiency come before the population is too massive to overwhelm the supply.
There is some crowding in cities, but the Israeli government takes an active role in building new viable cities in sparsely populated areas and developing the countryside which prevents the kind of urban price jumps that are seen in Vietnam where the government does not make similar investments.
Which israel or judah had an advantage when it came to trading?
Israel probably had an advantage, since they had a larger land, a longer border, and access to the sea.
How long does it take to drive from Jerusalem to the Ben-Gurion Airport?
Discounting the traffic jams you might bump into within Jerusalem itself, it's about a 40-minute drive from the Western exit of Jerusalem to the Ben-Gurion International Airport.
What is money from Israel worth compared to American money?
How in the world can a question like that be answered ? What's the reference ?
Anything on earth that can be bought with American dollars can also be bought
with Israeli shekels. Only the numbers are different. But the number of shekels
that an Israeli is paid for an hour, a day, a week, or a month of work is also
different from the number of dollars that an American is paid for the same work.
How do you express and describe the value of money ?
On October 18, 2010, the New Israeli Shekel traded at the rate of NIS 3.5765 per USD 1.00 .
On the same date, the Ghanaian Cedi traded at the rate of GHS 1.43958 per USD 1.00,
and the Euro at the rate of EUR 0.7177 per USD 1.00
Why does fawaz turki refer to the israelis as colonizers?
According to those who believe like Fawaz Turki, the entire idea of Israel is a modern colony in the Middle East. Prior to 1900, less than 10% of the population of what would become Mandatory Palestine was Jewish and the Fellahin or Settled Arabs were the majority. There were also a large percentage of Turks, Circassians, Bedouin, and Druze, but the Settled Arabs were still the majority. Zionist Jews or those Jews who desired to create a Jewish State cleverly manipulated the Great Powers, especially the United Kingdom into giving them the right to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine in large numbers without consulting the rights of the Fellahin. Additionally, Zionist Jews purchased large swaths of land from Turkish nobility without consulting the Fellahin who lived on that land for centuries but did not properly own it. As a result, numerous Fellahin were forced off of their land during the Yishuv period, Yishuv being the word for a Zionist Jewish settlement in Mandatory Palestine. The Jewish population in Palestine continued to rise until 1939 when the Fellahin successfully petitioned the British government to close off Jewish immigration.
However, the Jewish minority had grown sufficiently large in Mandatory Palestine that this combined with the Holocaust was able to earn international sympathy for the Zionist cause of establishing a State for the Jews in a land where the Jewish population had literally "just" shown up. Compare this to Rhodesia which was a state that declared independence to be ruled by the White Settlers of Rhodesia in 1960 that had been on that land. Rhodesia was so vilified in the international community that in only 20 years, it reverted to become the African nation of Zimbabwe. However, in that case, the White Settlers had come to Rhodesia as early as 1860, which makes them far more "local" than the Zionist Jews in Palestine in 1948 (most of whom were in the country for less than 30 years). The attempt by the Yishuv to form a state could not be tolerated and the Arabs formed militias to prevent the Yishuv from asserting control over land that had been historically settled by the Arab people. As a result, war broke out between the Zionist Haganah, Palmach, Irgun, and Lehi militias and the Fellahin, represented by the Holy War Army and the Arab Liberation Army. The neighboring Arab countries joined in when the Yishuv declared independence as Israel to help to the Arab militias. Subsequent to Israeli Independence, there was the eventual Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip which further reduced and minimized the power and presence of the Fellahin through numerous acts, such as the Settlements which are Israeli colonies in the West Bank and, formerly, the Gaza Strip.
What was the name of the treaty ending the 1973 between Israel and Egypt?
There was no treaty ending the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The UN Security Council passed cease fire resolution 338 [which actually didnt work & so was followed by resolution 339] in '73. Finally, in 1978 U.S. President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israel and Egypt to meet on U. S. soil at Camp David for a 12-day secret conference. This historic meeting resulted in the leaders of both countries to sign what are known as the Camp David Accords. Not a treaty, the Accords were more of an aggreement for peace and intention to ultimately sign a peace treaty. Many people all over the world were upset about the Accord. The Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty was signed in 1979. Of much significance is that is previously no Arab country had acknowledged Israel. Egypt became the first Arab country to recognize the Jewish state of Israel. Later, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat actually visited Israel which was quite extraordinary.
What year did Israel fall to invaders?
In the year 70 C.E. (Common Era), the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and its Holy Temple and exiled the Jews. However, although Jews were no longer permitted in Jerusalem, Jews lived throughout the country. In fact, there was never a period where there were NO Jews living somewhere in Israel. During the Middle Ages, more Jews began to return to Israel, growing in the Nineteenth Century. By the end of the Nineteenth Century, Jews outnumbered Arab in Jerusalem itself.
Why is there a state of war between Israel and Gaza?
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General Answer
This question is best answered by a PhD history thesis. However, in this limited format, we will attempt to simplify without gross oversimplification.
Gaza, a small strip of land along Israel's south Mediterranean coast, is a ghettoized area used by Israel to isolate Palestinians. Palestinians are the Muslim natives of Palestine, an historic area traditionally defined as that part of Arabia containing most of the sites described in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. As one might expect, the Palestinians resent their ghettoization and have rebelled throughout the history of Israel as a modern country. Their primary weapon in rebellion is terrorism against civilian Israelis.
Recently this terrorism has taken the form of rocket attacks fired from the Gaza strip into Israeli settlements in the adjoining Negev desert. The Israeli government has chosen to answer these attacks with overwhelming military force as a sort of collective punishment for all residents of Gaza who allow the terrorists free passage. The terrorist leadership, an organization called Hamas, refuses to stop the rocket attacks, and the Israelis seem disinclined to stop at this point even if Hamas does stop, as their stated aim is to wipe out the Hamas organization.
Palestinian Perspective
The reasons for the current conflict in Gaza are very complicated, however, at its most basic level, conflict in Gaza comes from the creation of Israel in 1949.
Before 1949, Palestine was a country, however, after WWII, Israel were given a Palestine as a "National Homeland", the decision to do this had been in the making for years, however with the atrocities committed by Hitler in WWII, the Zionist movement (those seeking the creation of Israel finally achieved their objective.
The taking of Palestine was extremely unpopular, as it displaced all those people previously living there, and was seen by many people from the Middle East as further evidence of Western interference and imperialism.
Recently, groups in Gaza (a disputed territory that nobody officially owns) have been firing rockets into Israel killing only three people in the last many years, but certainly disrupting Israeli life. Because of this the Israeli military have attacked Gaza, killing hundreds (as of this writing). Most people agree that this is a disproportionate response.
However, the root of the problem, and conflict in Gaza, stems from the creation of Israel and western interference since 1919, along with many other local groups, committed to the extermination of Palestinians.
Israeli Perspective
What a one sided view. First of all, there was never a Palestinian country or state as the area was under British occupation and before that under Ottoman rule (old Turkey). When Israel was formed under UN decision in 1948, many locals (retroactively referred as Palestinians although the term did not exist at the time) fled the area on the newly formed Israel for fear that they would be slaughtered as is customary in the region. Many years later, these people wanted to come back and reclain ownership of the land and homes they left behind when they fled. This is commonly reffered to as the "right of return". Israel refused and said that the property was then occupied by Israelis and to give so many people Israeli nationality at once would completely up-end the demografic distribution inside Israel, turning it into a mostly Arab state. Since there are 22 other such states and only a single Jewish State this seems rather unfair, however this point is debatable. The Palestinian issue and the first use of the term began in 1967 when Israel won a preemptive war against the entire Arab world and in the process took over what is now called the Palestinian Territories. It was initilly thought that these regions would be used as leverage in peace talks similar to the way Sinai Peninsula was given back to Egypt in return for peace. Unfortunately, this did not work, for many complex reasons faulting both sides, and Israel ended up occuping the area since. This has had detrimental effects on both sides and results in the flaring of warfare every few years ever since.
Shorter View Answer
Discussion of Operation Cast Lead of December 2008
1). Gaza is under military occupation. Article 42 of the Hague Regulations stipulates, a "territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army," and that the occupation extends "to the territory where such authority has been established and can be exercised." Similarly, in the Hostage Case, the Nuremberg Tribunal held that, "the test for application of the legal regime of occupation is not whether the occupying power fails to exercise effective control over the territory, but whether it has the ability to exercise such power."
Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, like those in the West Bank, continue to be subject to Israeli control. For example, Israel controls Gaza's air space, territorial waters, and all border crossings. Palestinians in Gaza require Israel's consent to travel to and from Gaza, to take their goods to Palestinian and foreign markets, to acquire food and medicine, and to access water and electricity. Without Israel's permission, the Palestinian Authority (PA) cannot perform such basic functions of government as providing social, health, security and utility services, developing the Palestinian economy and allocating resources.
2). Terrorists or freedom fighters depending on your point of view continue to resist the Israeli occupation with rocket attacks. The reality is the rockets contain no warhead and no guidance system. (Then what in the world can be their purpose, other than to invite retaliation ?) It can argued that the rockets are nothing more than a large firework with no powder. (Then what defensive value can they possibly have ? Perhaps you need a better class of more capable freedom fighters.) The mortality rate from rocket attacks since 2001 in Israel is 0.002% (How shocking! Only two of every hundred thousand Israelis have been killed by large powder-less fireworks with no warhead or guidance system from across the border, and still they keep whining and getting nasty about it ? ! The nerve of those uppity Jews anyway, refusing to die in serious numbers.)
3). In January of 2009, Israel broke the peace and launched operation 'Cast Lead' a massive military offensive against a civilian population. (Perhaps they had grown tired of being targeted by large powder-less warhead-less unguided fireworks from across the border?) 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. (Is that the same Gaza strip from which the Israeli military had removed all Israeli civilian "settlers", by force where it was necessary, and turned it over to Palestinian control? The same Gaza strip that the new owners immediately trashed as soon as they had the chance?)
The following links detail some of the incidents that took place during 2009
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