The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering is a 2000 book by Norman G. Finkelstein that argues that the American Jewish establishment exploits the memory of the Nazi Holocaust for political and financial gain, as well as to further the interests of Israel.

Because of this, Finkelstein repeatedly asserts that " fraudulent " claims were made on Switzerland, while accounts and assets in the US and Israel were ignored.

*" It Takes an Enormous Amount of Courage to Speak the Truth When No One Else is Out There " -- World-Renowned Holocaust, Israel Scholars Defend DePaul Professor Norman Finkelstein as He Fights for Tenure ( Raul Hilberg and Avi Shlaim speak in support of Norman Finkelstein's scholarship and " The Holocaust Industry " specifically.

Israel Finkelstein proposed that the oval or circular layout that distinguishes some of the earliest highland sites, and the notable absence of pig bones from hill sites, could be taken as a marker of ethnicity, but others have cautioned that these can be a " common-sense " adaptation to highland life and not necessarily revelatory of origins.

* Finkelstein, Israel ; Mazar, Amihay ; Schmidt, Brian B., " The Quest for the Historical Israel " ( Society of Biblical Literature, 2007 )

Israel Finkelstein points to the appearance of settlements in the central hill country around 1200 as the earliest of the known settlements of the Israelites.

Some authors, especially Israel Finkelstein, maintain that the Book of Kings minimized Omri's accomplishments.

Israel Finkelstein has suggested that there may be a period of 25 – 50 years after the sacking of these cities and their reoccupation by the Philistines.

Yigael Yadin's excavations at Hazor, Megiddo, Beit Shean and Gezer uncovered structures that he and others have argued date from his reign, but others, such as Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, argue that they should be dated to the Omride period, more than a century after Solomon.

According to Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, authors of The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, at the time of the kingdoms of David and Solomon, Jerusalem was populated by only few hundred residents or less, which is insufficient for an empire stretching from the Euphrates to Eilath.

Although both Finkelstein and Silberman accept that David and Solomon were real kings of Judah about the 10th century BC, they claim that the earliest independent reference to the Kingdom of Israel is about 890 BC, and for Judah about 750 BC.

However, the tribe is not mentioned in the ancient Song of Deborah, and some scholars think that Simeon was not originally regarded as a distinct tribe ; according to Israel Finkelstein, the south of Canaan, in which Simeon was situated, was simply an insignificant rural backwater at the time the poem was written.

Israel Finkelstein et al., however, have claimed that lack of evidence for a systematic conquest or the abrupt appearance of a new culture indicates that the Israelites simply arose as a subculture within Canaanite society.

Traditionally, this has been explained as being due to the southern kingdom being too far away to be involved in the battle, but Israel Finkelstein et al.

Others, most notably Israel Finkelstein of Tel Aviv University, argue that the structure could, for the most part, be from the much later Hasmonean period.

* The Devil Is Not So Black as He Is Painted: BAR Interviews Israel Finkelstein Biblical Archaeology Review

Recently the difference between the Maximalist and Minimalist has reduced, however a new school started with a work, " The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel " by Israel Finkelstein, Amihai Mazar, and Brian B. Schmidt.

In 2001, Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman published the book The Bible Unearthed.

* Finkelstein, Israel, The Archaeology of the Israelite Settlement, 1988

* Finkelstein, Israel and Silberman, Neil A.

* Israel Finkelstein ( b. 1949 Petah Tikva ), archaeologist

In particular, it wanted MI5 to find out where Chaplin was born and pursue suggestions that his real name was Israel Thornstein.

: Sixth, Israel is not only the Holy Land where our faith was born and developed, but it plays an essential role in our present and future.

12 You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel., ( 2 Samuel 12: 12 ) and finally, that " the son born to you will die.

* Chaim Herzog, 6th President of Israel, born in Belfast.

Gershwin was born Israel Gershowitz in New York City to Morris ( Moishe ) and Rose Gershovitz who changed the family name to Gershvin well before their children rose to fame ( it was not spelled " Gershwin " until later ).

Esau offered to accompany them on their way back to Israel, but Jacob protested that his children were still young and tender ( born 6 to 13 years prior in the narrative ); Jacob suggested eventually catching up with Esau at Mount Seir.

Israel ’ s youngest son Benjamin, born from Rachel, stayed behind by his father ’ s order to keep him safe.

According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was born in a time when his people, the Children of Israel, were increasing in number and the Egyptian Pharaoh was worried that they might help Egypt's enemies.

* Menashe Amir ( born 1940 ), Persian-language broadcaster on Israel Radio International

Kaplan was born in Švenčionys, Lithuania, to Rabbi Israel and Haya ( Anna ) Kaplan.

Consequently, Covenant theologians see in Old Testament Israel the people of God ( the Church ) before Christ was born.

Stanley Milgram was born in 1933 to a Jewish family in New York City, the child of a Romanian-born mother, Adele ( née Israel ), and a Hungarian-born father, Samuel Milgram.

He was born in Tehran ( although his parents came from Isfahan ), Mofaz immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1957.

In Yemen, however, rather than abandoning the Aramaic targum during the public reading of the Torah, it was supplemented by a third version, namely the translation of the Torah into Arabic by Saadia Gaon ( called the Tafsir, though this Gaon was born in prominently Jewish at the time Sura Iraq, Babylon, moved to Egypt, arguably lead those two communities, and died in Jaffa ancestral Israel, he was not known to have ever been to the Jewish villages of Yemen.

Because of Israel's relatively new and culturally-mixed identity, Israel does not grant citizenship to persons born on Israeli soil.

There is currently no legislation on second-generation immigrants ( those born in Israel to immigrant parents ).

GCMG (,, Shim ' aoon Beereez ; born Szymon Perski ; 2 August 1923 ) is the ninth and current President of the State of Israel.

* Ilan Chester ( born 1952 ), Venezuelan singer, keyboardist, arranger and composer ; he was born in Israel as Ilan Czenstochowski

* Jonathan Cook ( born 1965 ) is a British writer and a freelance journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, who writes about the Middle East, and more specifically, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Jonathan Pollard who spied for Israel and was sentenced to life in jail was born in Galveston.

David Ben-Gurion () (,, born David Grün ; 16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973 ) was the main founder and the first Prime Minister of Israel.

Ralph Bakshi was born on October 29, 1938, in Haifa, British Mandate of Palestine ( now Israel ), as a Krymchak Jew.

A number of prominent Russian authors such as novelists Mikhail Shishkin, Rubén Gallego, Svetlana Martynchik and Dina Rubina, poets Alexei Tsvetkov and Bakhyt Kenjeev, though born in USSR, live and work in West Europe, North America or Israel.

Israel Shahak (; born Himmelstaub, April 28, 1933 – July 2, 2001 ) was a Polish-born Holocaust survivor and Israeli professor of chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known especially as a liberal political thinker, author, and civil rights activist.