Today, the majority of Palestinian Christians live outside of the former Mandate Palestine because of emigration in response to the 1948 War, and the Six-Day War in 1967, occupation by Jordan, Egypt, and most recently Israel, with 78 % of Christians blaming the ongoing exodus of Christians from Bethlehem on the Israeli occupation and travel restrictions on the area ..

Orthodox, Sephardim, a majority of Israeli Jews and other Jews, including many whom are not religious, believe that the Torah was given to Moses at Sinai.

Foreign films where the majority of the dialogue is in English cannot qualify for the Foreign Language Film Award, and the Academy has usually applied this requirement very seriously by disqualifying films containing too much English dialogue, the most recent case being that of the Israeli film The Band's Visit ( 2007 ).

In the early 1950s the Israeli army relocated the majority of the Bedouin living in the Negev to an area under Martial Law north of Beersheba know as the Siyah (" the fence " in Arabic and Hebrew ).

Orthodox, Sephardim, a majority of Israeli Jews and other Jews, including many whom are not observant, reject critical Bible scholarship and the documentary hypothesis, holding to the opinion that it is contradicted by the Torah in Deuteronomy 31: 24, 25 and 26, and the Talmud ( Gittin 60a, Bava Basra 15b ), which state that Moses wrote the Torah, as well as by the Mishnah, which asserts the divine origin of the Torah as one of the essential tenets of Judaism.

The Hamas affiliated military wing was responsible for the majority of violence and killings attributed to Hamas and conducted numerous attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers.

" Others feel that the Peace agreement was between the Israeli people and Egypt's charismatic President Anwar El Sadat, rather than with the Egyptian people, who were not given the opportunity to accept or reject the agreement with a free vote or a representative majority.

The American Jewish community was divided over whether they agreed with the Israeli response ; the great majority came to accept the war as necessary.

The majority of the surviving Arab buildings of Amka were completely destroyed by the Israeli army in the late 1950s on the orders of the Israeli government.

Some went to Lebanon and the Israeli Army trucked the majority to Rame, a town between Acre and Safad.

The vast majority of Vietnamese-Israelis or Vietnamese people of Israeli origin, live in Bat Yam.

On the morning of 5 June 1967, the Israeli Air Force ( IAF ) launched a massive airstrike that destroyed the majority of the Egyptian air force on the ground.

Orlev's proposal stated that the party would stay in the government on condition that the government would not hold a general referendum ( משאל עם, Meshal Am ) regarding removal of the Israeli settlements, which would require a special majority, before the issue could be brought to a decision in the Knesset.

With international peace-efforts intensifying, both sides felt that the war was drawing to a close, and such a strong defensive line would help Egypt claim the majority of western and southern Negev, which included some Israeli settlements.

The vast majority of Israeli Jews today trace their family's recent roots to outside of the country.

On 13 May 2012, a bill to extend Israeli law to the Israeli settlements in the Judea and Samaria area initiated by MK Miri Regev ( Likud ) first approved by the majority of the Ministerial Committee for Legislation was rejected in a second round of votes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had instructed his ministers to vote against the bill.

The two-state solution also enjoys majority support in Israeli polls although there has been some erosion to its prospects over time.

Tower Air was co-founded, majority owned, and managed by Morris K. Nachtomi, an Israeli citizen who had emigrated to the United States.

The majority of these identify themselves as Arab or Palestinian by nationality and Israeli by citizenship.

* Ghil ' ad Zuckermann compromises between Wexler and the majority view: according to him, " Israeli " ( his term for Israeli Hebrew ) is a Semito-European hybrid language, which is the continuation not only of literary Hebrew but also of Yiddish, as well as Polish, Russian, German, English, Ladino, Arabic and other languages spoken by Hebrew revivalists.

Thus, " Yiddish is a primary contributor to Israeli Hebrew because it was the mother tongue of the vast majority of revivalists and first pioneers in Eretz Yisrael at the crucial period of the beginning of Israeli Hebrew ".

Having succeeded in defeating their foes, the majority of the Gauls returned to their homelands but retained an occupation force and colonial settlements throughout the Greek world.

The native settlements consisted of pagi ( cantons ) containing a number of vici ( villages ), the majority of the large towns being of Roman origin.

Today, only a handful of Enxet are still able to maintain their traditional way of life, while the majority live in small settlements sponsored by various missionary organizations.

Mainland public transport is mostly limited to buses ran by Irish Government owned company Bus Éireann ; there are around 25 buses running frequent routes which pass through the majority of large settlements in Clare.

The islands are the location of some of Quebec's oldest English-speaking settlements, and although the majority of anglophones have since been assimilated with the francophone population or migrated elsewhere, there are still English-speaking settlements at Old Harry, Grosse-Ile, and Entry Island.

Outside Greece and Italy, which were more densely populated, the vast majority of settlements in the Iron Age were small, with perhaps no more than 50 inhabitants.

Early archaeologists like Ferdinand Keller thought they formed artificial islands, much like the Scottish Crannogs, but today it is clear that the majority of settlements was located on the shores of lakes and were only inundated later on.

It was formed by merging the Stavropol Kalmyk settlements with a majority of the Astrakhan Kalmyks.

Additionally the majority of settlements in South Africa were planned in their early stages and the original town centres still lie in a grid street fashion.

Most of the settlements in the municipality have an ethnic Serb majority.

Since Germany has no administrative level comparable to the townships of other countries, the vast majority of the country, close to 99 %, is organized in municipalities, often consisting of multiple settlements which are not considered to be unincorporated.

The majority of human settlements are built on the drier strips of limestone, whereas the more poorly-draining clays ( which comprise the greater bulk of the area ) are more sparsely populated, supporting mostly small farms, dotted across the vale.

Nonetheless, as in many other countries, the earliest settlements sprang up on the rivers, and that is where the majority of the urban population prefers to live.

Most of the settlements in the municipality have an ethnic Serb majority, while the village of Pivnice have an ethnic Slovak majority.

Note: for settlements with absolute or relative Hungarian majority names are also given in Hungarian.

Most of the settlements in the municipality have an ethnic Serb majority.

Most of the settlements in the municipality have an ethnic Serb majority, while one settlement has a Hungarian ethnic majority: Sajan ( Hungarian: Szaján ).

All settlements in the municipality have an ethnic Serb majority.

Most of the settlements in the municipality have an ethnic Serb majority.

Within the municipality, the settlements with a Serb ethnic majority are: Vršac ( the city itself ), Vatin, Veliko Središte, Vlajkovac, Vršački Ritovi, Gudurica, Zagajica, Izbište, Pavliš, Parta, Potporanj, and Uljma.

The settlements with a Romanian ethnic majority are: Vojvodinci, Jablanka, Kuštilj, Mali Žam, Malo Središte, Markovac, Mesić, Ritiševo, Sočica, and Straža.