One day before the British Mandate expired Israel declared its independence within the borders of the Jewish State set out in the Partition Plan The Arab countries declared war on the newly formed State of Israel beginning the 1948 ArabIsraeli War
A history of Israel is one of persecution struggle oppression and survival Long before Jacob became Israel since the ancient beginnings of Genesis this tiny nation has been in a constant state of survival From the moment of Abrahams arrival in the land of Canaan Gods people have been surrounded by enemies on all sides
After Israel declared its independence on May 14 1948 the fighting intensified with other Arab forces joining the Palestinian Arabs in attacking territory in the former Palestinian mandate On the eve of May 14 the Arabs launched an air attack on Tel Aviv which the Israelis resisted
On the 29th November 1947 the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in EretzIsrael the General Assembly required the inhabitants of EretzIsrael to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution
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The people of Israel also called the Jewish People trace their origin to Abraham who established the belief that there is only one God the creator of the universe see Torah Abraham his son Yitshak Isaac and grandson Jacob Israel are referred to as the patriarchs of the Israelites
Israel and the United States are bound closely by historic and cultural ties as well as by mutual interests Israel's founding was preceded by more than 50 years of efforts to establish a sovereign state as a homeland for the Jewish people
A Biblical History of Israel Second Edition Iain Provan on FREE shipping on qualifying offers For over a decade A Biblical History of Israel has gathered praise and criticism for its unapologetic approach to reconstructing the historical landscape of ancient Israel through a biblical lens In this muchanticipated second edition
around Israel threatening to attack Israel strikes first defeats Egypt Jordan and Syria in six days
At four oclock in the afternoon on 14 May 1948 in front of the leaders of the Yishuv Jewish community in Palestine in the Tel Aviv Art Museum David BenGurion read out the Declaration of Independence and proclaimed the establishment of the Jewish state in Palestine to be called Medinat Israel
Since Israels establishment military expenditure constituted a significant portion of the countrys gross domestic product with peak of 303 of GDP spent on defense in 1975 In 2016 Israel ranked 6th in the world by defense spending as a percentage of GDP with 57 and
The people of Israel also called the Jewish People trace their origin to Abraham who established the belief that there is only one God the creator of the universe see Torah Abraham his son Yitshak Isaac and grandson Jacob Israel are referred to as the patriarchs of the Israelites
History of Israel A Chronological Presentation A basic knowledge of the history of Israel is necessary in order to understand the ArabIsraeli conflict as it unfolds today This relatively short yet fairly thorough runthrough offers a chronological overview of the conflict
The earliest mention of the word Israel comes from a stele an inscription carved on stone erected by the Egyptian pharaoh Merneptah reign ca 12131203 BC The inscription mentions a
establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 practically all the Yemenite Iraqi and Libyan Jews and major parts of the other Mizrahi Jewish communities migrated to Israel
Creation of Israel 1948 Although the United States supported the Balfour Declaration of 1917 which favored the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine President Franklin D Roosevelt had assured the Arabs in 1945 that the United States would not intervene without
The history of Israel goes back even further than 2000 BC In fact the selection of Israel as a special nation was part of Gods plan from the beginning of time Gods choice of Israel as His chosen people did not lie in any special size nature or attraction
The History of Israel Time Line The Babylonians conquer Jerusalem destroy the first temple and exile influential Jews to Babylon
The Kingdom of Israel emerged around 1000 BC and was ruled by great kings such as King David and Solomon Over the next 1000 plus years various empires would take control of the land These included the Assyrian Babylonian Persian Greek Roman and Byzantine Empires
The birthplace of the Jewish people is the Land of Israel During the many years of dispersion the Jewish people never severed its bond with the Land With the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 Jewish independence was renewed
With the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 Jewish independence lost 2000 years earlier was renewed Archeology in Israel involves the systematic investigation of all the remains of the countrys past from prehistory to the end of Ottoman rule
Oct 26 2018· Israel developed into a united kingdom under the leadership of King David c1035970 BCE who consolidated the various tribes under his single rule having taken over from Israel's first king Saul who ruled c 10801010 BCE
With the establishment of the State of Israel on May 14 1948 Jewish independence was renewed In the first century when the Jewish civilization in Israel was already over 1000 years old Rome destroyed the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and conquered the Jewish nation
On 14 May 1948 the day before the expiration of the British Mandate David BenGurion the head of the Jewish Agency declared the establishment of a Jewish
