" ( Isaiah 40: 17 ), to which Abbahu replied: " Do we not read of Israel, he ' shall not be reckoned among the nations '?

Rabbi Steinsaltz has received many awards and prizes, among them the Israel Prize for Jewish studies in 1988.

In this third covenant, unlike the first two, God hands down an elaborate set of laws ( scattered through Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers ), which the Israelites are to observe ; they are also to remain faithful to Yahweh, the god of Israel, meaning, among other things, that they must put their trust in his help.

Deuteronomy contains the laws by which Israel is to live in the promised land, Joshua chronicles the conquest of Canaan, the promised land, and its allotment among the tribes, Judges describes the settlement of the land, Samuel the consolidation of the land and people under David, and Kings the destruction of kingship and loss of the land.

* Images of Israel, in which Israel is seen as a nymphomaniac bride, among other things ( Ezekiel 15-19 );

: All of the people Israel will come back to Torah ; The people of Israel will be gathered back to the land of Israel ; The Temple in Jerusalem will be rebuilt ; Israel will live among the nations as an equal, and will be strong enough to defend herself ; Eventually, war, hatred and famine will end, and an era of peace and prosperity will come upon the Earth.

:" And if a king shall stand up from among the House of David, studying Torah and indulging in commandments like his father David, according to the written and oral Torah, and he will coerce all Israel to follow it and to strengthen its weak points, and will fight The Lord's wars, this one is to be treated as if he were the anointed one.

Eritrea developed relations with Israel shortly after gaining its independence in 1993, despite protests among Arab countries.

Israel had clearly emerged by the middle of the 9th century BCE, when the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III names " Ahab the Israelite " among his enemies at the battle of Qarqar ( 853 ).

There is a general consensus among scholars that the first formative event in the emergence of the distinctive religion described in the Bible was triggered by the destruction of Israel by Assyria in c. 722 BCE.

He is one of the few kings praised so highly as to have “ trusted in the Lord the God of Israel ; so that there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah after him, or among those who were before him ” ().

In 1994 the Knesset amended two basic laws, Human Dignity and Liberty and Freedom of Occupation, introducing ( among other changes ) a statement saying " the fundamental human rights in Israel will be honored (...) in the spirit of the principles included in the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel.

Subsets of Haredi Judaism include: Hasidic Judaism, which is rooted in the Kabbalah and distinguished by reliance on a Rebbe or religious teacher ; and Sephardic Haredi Judaism, which emerged among Sephardic ( Asian and North African ) Jews in Israel.

After massive movements of Jews following The Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel, these movements have competed for followers from among traditional Jews in or from other countries.

* Both in the United States and in Israel, several groups have sprung up in the last few years that seek to support those who identify as both Orthodox and homosexual and to promote understanding of homosexuality within Orthodox communities and among Orthodox rabbis.

" The rise of Christian Zionism — that is, religiously motivated Christian interest and support for the state of Israel — along with a growth of philo-Semitism ( love of the Jewish people ) has increased interest among American Evangelicals in Judaism, especially areas of commonality with their own beliefs, see also Jerusalem in Christianity.

In 2003, Edward Rothstein updated his stage review to a movie critique, writing " the film affirms two ideas now commonplace among radical critics of Israel: that Jews acted like Nazis, and that refugees from the Holocaust were instrumental in the founding of the state, visiting upon Palestinians the sins of others.

A May 17, 1983, agreement among Lebanon, Israel, and the United States arranged an Israeli withdrawal conditional on the departure of Syrian troops.

Nasrallah also reiterated his earlier calls for the destruction of Israel saying " To this enemy we say again: There is no place for you here and there is no life for you among us.

But they refuse, as do the Arab states, to support the United Nations' expenses of maintaining the United Nations Emergency Force in the Middle East as a buffer between Egypt and Israel, and the U.N. troops in the Congo, which expenses are not covered by the regular budget of the United Nations, but by a special budget.

* 1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.

* 2006 – The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ; Nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.

Throughout the history of the United Nations General Assembly, it is claimed by some there has always been an " automatic majority " against Israel.

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Despite a June 2008 certification by the United Nations that Israel had withdrawn from all Lebanese territory, in August, Lebanon's new Cabinet unanimously approved a draft policy statement which secures Hezbollah's existence as an armed organization and guarantees its right to " liberate or recover occupied lands ".

Although Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, and their complete withdrawal was verified by the United Nations, Lebanon now considers the Shebaa farms — a 26-km² ( 10-mi² ) piece of land captured by Israel from Syria in the 1967 war and considered by the UN to be disputed territory between Syria and Israel — to be Lebanese territory.

Israel withdrew in 2000 in accordance with 1978's United Nations Security Council Resolution 425.

In the hearings before the Ad Hoc Political Committee that considered Israel's application for membership in the United Nations, Abba Eban said that the rights stipulated in section C. Declaration, chapters 1 and 2 of UN resolution 181 ( II ) had been alluded to in the fundamental law of the state of Israel as proposed by the resolution.

Mr. Eban's explanations and Israel's undertakings were noted in the text of General Assembly Resolution 273 ( III ) Admission of Israel to membership in the United Nations, 11 May 1949.

Israel became a member of the United Nations on 11 May 1949.

The ongoing expansion of existing settlements by Israel and the construction of settlement outposts is frequently criticized as an obstacle to the peace process by the Palestinians and third parties, including the United Nations, Russia, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United States.

* 2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.

* Nations will recognize the wrongs they did Israel ( Isaiah 52: 13 – 53: 5 )

In 1956, under his direction, St-Laurent's Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson, helped solve the Suez Crisis in 1956 between Great Britain, France, Israel and Egypt, bringing forward St-Laurent's 1946 views on a U. N. military force in the form of the United Nations Emergency Force ( UNEF ) or peacekeeping.

The lack of recognition of Israel became an issue with respect to Malaysia's participation in a United Nations peacekeeping force after the Lebanon-Israel conflict of 2006.

* 1949 – Israel joins the United Nations.

* 1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.

On November 3, 1986 the United Nations General Assembly passed, by a vote of 94-3 ( El Salvador, Israel and the US voted against ), a non-binding resolution urging the US to comply.

Nations that permit gay people to serve openly in the military include the 4 of the 5 members of the UN Security Council ( United States, United Kingdom, France, and Russia ), the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), Australia, Israel, Argentina, and all NATO members excluding Turkey.

* 1973 – A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.

On 4 November 1956, a majority of nations at the United Nations voted for Pearson's peacekeeping resolution, which mandated the UN peacekeepers to stay in Sinai unless both Egypt and Israel agreed to their withdrawal.