In Hilf near Haifa, there is a joint Arab-Jewish Waldorf kindergarten, the first joint Arab-Jewish kindergarten in Israel.

Yahweh's war campaign in Palestine validates Israel's entitlement to the land and provides a paradigm of how Israel was to live there: twelve tribes, with a designated leader, united by covenant in warfare and in worship of Yahweh alone at single sanctuary, all in obedience to the commands of Moses as found in Deuteronomy.

The potential disunity of Israel is a constant theme, the greatest threat of disunity coming from the tribes east of the Jordan, and there is even a hint in chapter 22: 19 that the land across the Jordan is unclean and the tribes who live there are of secondary status.

" The divine call for massacre at Jericho and elsewhere can be explained in terms of cultural norms ( Israel wasn't the only Iron Age state to practice herem ) and theology ( a measure to ensure Israel's purity as well as the fulfillment of God's promise ), but Patrick D. Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy remarks, " there is no real way to make such reports palatable to the hearts and minds of contemporary readers and believers.

There are six minor judges and six major judges ; this brings the total number of judges to twelve, the same number as there are tribes of Israel.

A statement repeated throughout the book, " In those days there was no king in Israel ; every man did that which was right in his own eyes ," implies a monarchist redaction.

So, according to Obadiah there will not remain even a remnant after Edom ’ s judgment ; This is in contrast to Amos 9: 12, where Amos refers to such a remnant, however, it is stated that their possession will be given to Israel.

Although chapters 4: 9-10 have said that there is " no king in Zion ", these chapters predict a new military ruler will emerge from Bethlehem, the traditional home of the Davidic monarchy, to restore the security of Israel.

While the Gregorian calendar is widely used in Israel's business and day-to-day affairs, the Hebrew calendar, used by Jews worldwide for religious and cultural affairs, also influences civil matters in Israel ( such as national holidays ) and can be used there for business dealings ( such as for the dating of checks ).

Outside the Fuerza Pública, there is a small Special Forces Unit, the Unidad Especial de Intervencion ( UEI ) or Special Intervention Unit, which trains with special forces of Israel, and its namesake in Spain and other democratic nations, but is not part of the main police forces.

In December 2011, Rodrigo Carreras became the Costa Rican ambassador to Israel for the second time, after his posting there in the 1980s.

Contentious issues include Egypt's signing of the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1979, its support for Iraq in Iran's eight-year conflict, the Islamic Republic's hailing of Khalid Islambouli, the late President Anwar Sadat's assassin as a religious hero, seeing as there was both a street and mural named after him ( however, the honorer was changed to Muhammad al-Durrah, the 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot and killed during the outset of the Second Intifada ), and close Egyptian relations with the United States, and most of the Western European countries.

He warns Ahab that there will be years of catastrophic drought so severe that not even dew will fall, because Ahab and his queen stand at the end of a line of kings of Israel who are said to have " done evil in the sight of the Lord.

In typical Elijah fashion, the message begins with a blunt, impertinent question: " Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron ?"().

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

Yet fundamentalist Christians do not adhere to this doctrine because there are laws considered addressed to the nation of Israel.

Judah emerged somewhat later than Israel, probably during the 9th century BCE, but the subject is one of considerable controversy and there is no definite answer.

The most significant casualty was the state ideology of " Zion theology ," the idea that the god of Israel had chosen Jerusalem for his dwelling-place and that the Davidic dynasty would reign there forever.

" In July 2006, during the war with Israel, when there was no running water in Beirut, Hezbollah was arranging supplies around the city.

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 ” ().

When released in 1803, from a brief time in prison, Rapp told his followers to pool their assets and follow him on a journey for safety to the " land of Israel " in the United States, and soon over 800 people were living with him there.

Residents are not offered citizenship or residency, though they typically have de facto work permits within Israel and freedom of travel there.

On the restoration of order in the Land of Israel, Usha became the seat of the academy and Judah spent his youth there.

The works of Josephus refer to at least twenty different people with the name Jesus, and in chapter 9 of Book 20, there is also a reference to Jesus son of Damneus who was a High Priest of Israel but is distinct from the reference to " Jesus called Christ " mentioned along with the identification of James.

Azerbaijan is one of the few countries with predominantly Muslim populations that shares a strategic alliance with Israel.

Today, Israel is a major arms supplier to the country.

The Battle of Qarqar is mentioned in extra-biblical records, and was perhaps at Apamea where Shalmaneser III of Assyria fought a great confederation of princes from Cilicia, Northern Syria, Israel, Ammon, and the tribes of the Syrian desert ( 853 BC ), including Ahab ( A-ha-ab-bu < sup > mat </ sup >) ( Adad -' idri ).

* 1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, a major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces.

The Book of Amos is set in a time when the people of Israel have reached a low point in their devotion to the God of Israel-the people have become greedy and have stopped following and adhering to their values.

Through Amos, God tells the people that he is going to judge Israel for its sins, and it will be a foreign nation that will enact his judgment.

For the people of Israel " the day of the LORD " is the day when God will fight against their and his enemies, and it will be a day of victory for Israel.

However, Amos and other prophets include Israel as an enemy of God, as Israel is guilty of injustice toward the innocent, poor, and young women.

As it is with all nations that rise up against the kingdom of God, even Israel and Judah will not be exempt from the judgment of God because of their idolatry and unjust ways.

Other major ideas in the book of Amos include: social justice and concern for the disadvantaged ; the idea that Israel's covenant with God did not exempt them from accountability for sin ; God is God of all nations ; God is judge of all nations ; God is God of moral righteousness ; God made all people ; God elected Israel and then liberated Israel so that He would be known throughout the world ; election by God means that those elected are responsible to live according to the purposes clearly outlined to them in the covenant ; if God destroys the unjust, a remnant will remain ; and God is free to judge whether to redeem Israel.

Tu Bishvat is not an official holiday in Israel.

Only in Israel decompression is used on all luggage to check for pressure sensor detonators.

A famine lasting three years hit Israel during the earlier half of David's reign at Jerusalem.

The Declaration says that Israel and Jordan ended the official state of enmity and would start negotiations in order to achieve an " end to bloodshed and sorrow " and a just and lasting peace.

It states on its website that “ a negotiated settlement between Israel and the Palestinians based on a two-state solution is the only legitimate and just way to provide for a lasting peace.

Haaretz, January 2, 2002 ); he and some others proposed, unsuccessfully, that Israel should suggest a mutual hudna as a prelude to a more lasting peace.

One of its most prominent members, the Palestinian-American scholar and activist Edward Said, left the PNC because he believed that the Oslo Accords sold short the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in pre-1967 Israel and would not lead to a lasting peace.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, adopted in November 1967, after Israel captured the region from Jordan in the Six Day War, lists as its first principle “ the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the need to work for a just and lasting peace in which every State in the area can live in security ” and called for the “ withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict ” in conjunction with the “ termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force ”.

During the years following operation Litani, many diplomatic efforts were made which tried to end the war on the Israeli-Lebanese border, including the effort of Philip Habib, the emissary of Ronald Reagan who in the summer of 1981 managed to arrange a lasting cease-fire between Israel and the PLO which lasted about a year.

In the Resolution, the Security Council determined: " that the policy and practices of Israel in establishing settlements in the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967 have no legal validity and constitute a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East "

Determines that the policy and practices of Israel in establishing settlements in the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967 have no legal validity and constitute a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East ;

Former American president Bill Clinton endorses the book, calling it " a deeply important book for anyone who cares about Israel, its security, its democracy, and its prospects for a just and lasting peace " on the back cover, adding " Beinart explains the roots of the current political and religious debates within Israel, raises the tough questions that can't be avoided, and offers a new way forward to achieve Zionism's founding ideals, both in Israel and among the diaspora Jews in the United States and elsewhere ".

The United States policy, following the recent humanitarian crisis in Gaza, dictates the need for a ceasefire, stating that the US would “ work diplomatically and through other means to try to support efforts to ensure that the ceasefire is lasting, and in that context for border crossings to be open and be available for humanitarian as well as day-to-day economic development imperatives .” Later, Ambassador Susan E. Rice claimed that the Palestinian civilians required “ urgent humanitarian and reconstruction assistance .” She also called on Israel to investigate claims of humanitarian abuse made by Palestinians.

The desire for peace on the part of both Egypt and Israel, combined with the effectiveness of the MFO, has resulted in a durable and lasting state of peace between these two nations.

* The United Kingdom of Israel and Judah, referring to a period of ancient Israel and Judah lasting from approximately 1050 BCE until about 930 BCE

:... this process offers the promise of ending decades of confrontation and conflict and the hope of lasting peace ... only through such a process can real peace and reconciliation among the Arab states, Israel and the Palestinians be achieved ...

Isaac Leeser retired from the Congregation Mickvé Israel in 1850, and was succeeded by Sabato Morais, who exerted a lasting influence upon the Jewish institutions of the city.