You're thinking of the Essenes. But you should be aware that they didn't "flourish." They were a tiny splinter group which lived in the Judean desert hills. They were considered aberrant because of various unusual innovations they adopted; and they disappeared entirely at the time of the Second Destruction.
An akhara is a member of an order of ascetic monks in parts of india, or a monastery used by members of this order.
Answer this question… Both groups gained influence when their members were persecuted by imperial powers.
All 192 member nations. (Taiwan, Palestine and other disputed areas cannot vote because they are not members)
As yet (mid-2010), there is no sovereign nation named "Palestine", so of course no nation by that name has as yet requested member status in the UN. When a nation with that name exists, and approaches the UN for membership, its request will be voted on by the current member nations, in the same fashion as each of them became members.
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The IRA actively supported the PLO, and many of its members trained in PLO training camps.
There are 193 members in the United Nation as of 2013, in addition to two non-member observer states: Vatican City and the State of Palestine. Vatican City has all the rights of a member, with the exception of voting and putting forward candidates. Palestine is merely an observer state and will not become a member state due to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the fact that Palestine's claimed area is controlled by Israel.
Members of the Whig Party were divided on the subject of slavery. This led to the end of the party in the middle of the 19th century.
It was the supreme privy council among the Jews, at once a court of final appeals and last resort and an executive and legislative assembly. It consisted of 71 members and traces its history back to the time of Moses and almost every Jewish town had one.
As of October 2023, there are two observer states that are not members of the World Health Organization (WHO): the Holy See (Vatican City) and Palestine. Additionally, Taiwan is not a member due to its political status, despite having its own health authority and participating in some WHO activities as an observer. Other nations may have varying degrees of engagement with the WHO but are recognized as members.
In 1936, Orde Wingate organized members of the Jewish paramilitary group, Hagannah, along with British forces into the Special Night Squads and fought the Arab Revolt of 1936 The Mandate Palestine Police employed both Jewish, Arab Muslim and Arab Christian "supernumary constables". The Palestine Force was the only colonial police force that did not employ full-time native officers.
On October 7, 1985, four men representing the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) hijacked the Italian MS ACHILLE LAUROliner off the coast of Egypt, as she was sailing from Alexandria, Egypt to Ashdod, Israel. The hijacking was masterminded by Muhammad Zaidan, leader of the Palestine Liberation Front. One 69-year-old Jewish American man in a wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, was murdered by the hijackers and thrown overboard.