After graduating from high school, Shahak served in the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) in an elite regiment.

In 1961, Shahak left Israel for the United States to study as a postdoctoral student at Stanford University.

Shahak first became concerned about Israel ’ s direction because of David Ben-Gurion's statement during the 1956 Suez War that Israel was fighting for " the kingdom of David and Solomon.

These activities earned Shahak great hostility in Israel and he even received death threats.

In 1965, Shahak wrote a letter to Ha ' aretz which, according to Dan Rickman, writing in The Guardian in 2009, was the genesis for " he currently major debate within and outside Israel about Orthodox Jewish attitudes to non-Jews ".

 In December 1999, Barger linked to a passage by anti-zionist critic Israel Shahak, which drew a concerned response from a fellow blogger and led to allegations of anti-Semitism.

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Ahab (; ; ) was king of Israel and the son and successor of Omri according to the Hebrew Bible.

" Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One " (; transliterated Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad.

David (; Dawid ; ) was, according to the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and, according to Christian scripture ( Matthew and Luke ), an ancestor of Jesus.

Hosea (;, Greek = Ōsēé ) was the son of Beeri, a prophet in Israel in the 8th century BC and author of the book of prophecies bearing his name.

Ahaz, king of Judah, at this crisis refused to co-operate with the kings of Israel and Syria in opposition to the Assyrians, and was on that account attacked and defeated by Rezin of Damascus and Pekah of Israel (; ).

Jacob (;, ; Septuagint ; ; " heel " or " leg-puller "), also later known as Israel (,,, " persevere with God "; Septuagint ; ), as described in the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, the New Testament and the Qur ' an was the third patriarch of the Hebrew people with whom God made a covenant, and ancestor of the tribes of Israel, which were named after his descendants.

Jehu (; ) was a king of Israel.

Jonah (; or ; Greek / Latin: Ionas ) is the name given in the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh / Old Testament ) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC, the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation.

Jeroboam II from " Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum " Jeroboam II (; ; ) was the son and successor of Jehoash, ( alternatively spelled Joash ), and the fourteenth king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, over which he ruled for forty-one years.

Nazareth (;, Natzrat or Natzeret ; an-Nāṣira or an-Naseriyye ) is the largest city in the North District of Israel.

Omri (; short for ) was a king of Israel, successful military campaigner and first in the line of Omride kings that included Ahab, Ahaziah and Joram.

Saul (;, Ṭālūt ; Saoul ; ) ( circa 1079 BC – 1007 BC ) was, according to the Qur ' an and Hebrew Bible, the first king of the united Kingdom of Israel.

Saul died at the Battle of Mount Gilboa (; ), and was buried in Zelah, in the region of Benjamin in modern-day Israel.

Samuel (; ; Samouēl ; ;, Ṣamu ’ īl ; Strong's: Shemuwel ) is a leader of ancient Israel in the Books of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible.

Anointing a king was equivalent to crowning him ; in fact, in Israel a crown was not required (;, etc .).

According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Simeon (; ) was one of the Tribes of Israel.

According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Manasseh (; ) was one of the Tribes of Israel.

Pekah (;, Pẹqakh ; " open-eyed "; ) was king of Israel.

Tiberias (;, Tverya, Tiveria ;, ) is a city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee ( also called the Kinneret ), Lower Galilee, Israel.

Elah (; ; ) was a son of Baasha, who succeeded him as the 4th king of Israel.

The Holy Land (; Eretz HaQodesh ; Arabic: ) is a term which in Judaism refers to the Kingdom of Israel as defined in the Tanakh.

(;, born Levi Shkolnik () 25 October 1895 – died 26 February 1969 ) served as the third Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969.

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.