Under Taif, the Hezbollah militia was eventually to be dismantled, and the LAF allowed to deploy along the border with Israel.

All others would be dismantled, with the exception of Kiryat Arba ( adjacent to the holy city of Hebron ), which would be an Israeli enclave inside the Palestinian state, and would be linked to Israel by a bypass road.

The settlement was dismantled on numerous occasions on 24 March 2003 by the Israel Defence Force ( IDF ) due to a court order which established that the land belonged to Palestinian families who lived in the area.

" However, Hamas later repudiated this offer and claimed they would never recognize Israel or compromise on their position that Israel needed to be dismantled and replaced by a single Palestinian state.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is also strongly anti-Zionist and calls for Israel, which it calls an " illegal entity ," to be dismantled.

On June 16, the Secretary-General reported to the Security Council that Israel had withdrawn its forces from Lebanon in accordance with resolution 425 ( 1978 ) and met the requirements defined in his report of May 22, 2000 ; namely, Israel had completed the withdrawal in conformity with the line identified by the United Nations, South Lebanese Army militia had been dismantled, and all detainees held at Al-Khiam prison had been freed.

Israel has dismantled only minor post-March 2001 settlements and has actually expanded others.

Israeli settlements would need to be dismantled and Palestinian refugees allowed to return ( to Israel as well as the new Palestine ).

The first encounter has to do with Elijah, whom Ahab refers to as " the troubler of Israel " ( 1 Kings 18: 17 ), in which Elijah predicts a drought ( 1 Kings 17: 1 ).

His denunciation of the royal dynasty of Israel, and his emphatic insistence on the worship of Yahweh and Yahweh alone, illustrated by the contest between Yahweh and Baal on Mount Carmel, as told in 1 Kings 18, form the keynote to a period which culminated in the accession of Jehu, an event in which Elijah's chosen disciple Elisha was the leading figure.

Berger was an expatriate American with dual citizenship ; Slavin, at 18 the youngest of the hostages, had only arrived in Israel from the Soviet Union four months before the Olympic Games began.

Israel is a notable example of nationwide proportionally-elected Parliament which happens to be highly fragmented, with currently 18 parties.

A leading scholar of the Kabbalah, Moshe Idel ( Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic, SUNY, 1995, pp. 17 – 18 ), ascribes this doctrine to the kabbalistic system of Rabbi Moses Cordovero ( 1522 – 1570 ) and in the eighteenth century, Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Hasidic movement, as well as his contemporary, Rabbi Menahem Mendel, the Maggid of Bar.

Shemot ( Exodus ) begins the story of God's revelation to his people Israel through Moses, who leads them out of Egypt ( Exodus 1 – 18 ) to Mount Sinai.

* Israel Feuds With Agency Set Up to Aid Palestinians ( New York Times: 18 October 2004 )

* July 18 – In Israel, a judge investigating a 1990 incident outside a mosque in Jerusalem in which at least 17 Palestinians were killed rules that Israeli police provoked the incident.

* October 18 * ndash ; The Soviet Union restores diplomatic relations with Israel, which had been suspended since the 1967 Six-Day War.

Naturalization applicants must also meet the following requirements: be over 18 years of age, have resided in Israel for three out of the five preceding years, have settled or intend to settle permanently in Israel, have some knowledge of Hebrew, and have renounced prior nationality or demonstrated ability to renounce nationality after becoming a citizen of Israel.

Proposals for a Palestinian state currently refers to the proposed establishment of an independent state for the Palestinian people in Palestine on land that was occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967 and earlier to that year for 18 years ( 1949 ) by Egypt ( Gaza ) and by Jordan ( West Bank ).

In mid-2006 he moved to Israel to coach Beitar Jerusalem FC, from which he quit after only a few months in charge on 18 October 2006 due to severe differences of opinion with the club's board of directors.

* The second, Numbers 23: 18 – 24, celebrates the moral virtue of Israel, its monarchy, and military conquests.

Heavy fighting having broken out between Israel and Syria following Israeli work undertaken on Arab-owned land in the DMZ, the Security Council in Resolutions 92 ( 1951 ) and 93 ( 1951 ) of 8 and 18 May 1951 called upon the parties to cease fighting and endorsed the request of the Chief of Staff of UNTSO that the Israeli company involved be instructed to cease all operations in the DMZ until such time as an agreement is arranged through the Chairman of the MAC for continuing its project.

Operation Cast Lead launched near the end of the previous year by Israel, continued until January 18.

In 1967, at the age of 18, Weaver visited Israel and volunteered on a kibbutz for several months.

Messianic Jews believe God's people have a responsibility to spread his name and fame to all nations ( Psalms 96: 3, Ezekiel 3: 18 – 19 ) It is believed that the Children of Israel were, remain, and will continue to be the chosen people of the God, and are central to his plans for existence.

During the first 18 months of the conflict, Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel were frequently targeted.

By the age of 18 in 1976, Barghouti was arrested by Israel for his involvement with Palestinian militant groups.

Israel has 30 airports with paved runways, 18 unpaved landing strips, and 3 heliports.

Panama formally recognized the State of Israel on 18 June 1948.

The aid, Israel had been informed on September 18, had been " deferred " until Israel saw fit to cooperate with the United Nations, in relation to its water diversion work near Bnot Ya ' akov Bridge in the Demilitarized Zone ; the UN Security Council subsequently adopted Resolution 100 on October 27, 1953.

It is the declared intention of the Interior Ministry to use the borough mechanism in order to facilitate municipal mergers in Israel, after a 2003 wide-reaching merger plan, which, in general, ignored the sensitivities of the communal settlements, and largely failed.

There are traditional Greek-speaking settlements in the neighbouring countries of Albania, Bulgaria and Turkey, as well as in several countries in the Black Sea area such as Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and around the Mediterranean Sea, Southern Italy, Israel, Egypt, Lebanon and ancient coastal towns along the Levant.

In total Israel created 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip, comprising 20 % of the total territory.

The DOP provides that Israel will retain responsibility during the transitional period for external security and for internal security and public order of Israeli settlements and citizens.

Israeli settlements in the occupied territories ( commonly referred to as simply Israeli settlements ) are the Jewish civilian communities built on land that was captured by Israel from Jordan, Egypt and Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War.

Settlements also existed in the Sinai and Gaza Strip until Israel evacuated the Sinai settlements following the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace agreement and unilaterally disengaged from the Gaza Strip in 2005.

Israeli neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and communities in the Golan Heights, areas which have been annexed by Israel, are also considered settlements by the international community, which does not recognise Israel's annexations of these territories.

Israel disputes the position of the international community and the legal arguments that were used to declare the settlements illegal.

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.

However, Israel has settled hundreds of thousands of its citizens in various Israeli controlled settlements in the West Bank.

For its part, the PLO used its new privileges to establish an effective " mini-state " in southern Lebanon, and to ramp up its attacks on settlements in northern Israel.

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.

** The Cabinet of Israel approves a freeze on new settlements in the occupied territories, a move expected to reinvigorate the Middle East Peace Process.

" She continued, writing " the greatest're-branding ' of Israel would be to celebrate that country's long standing, courageous and robust peace movement by helping to end the blockade of Gaza through negotiations with all parties to the conflict, and by stopping the expansion of West Bank settlements.

It was understood that, subsequent to the Israeli withdrawal, Israel would continue to be responsible for external security, and for internal security and public order of settlements and Israelis.

After the signing of the agreements, Israel continued expanding existing settlements although this fell far short of the Shamir government's 1991 – 1992 level.

Many Palestinians feared that Israel was not serious about dismantling their settlements in the West Bank, especially around Jerusalem.

Many towns in Ethiopia are named after biblical Israel settlements, including Ethiopia's third largest city of Nazret ( Adama ).

The invention of the Tower and Stockade system by which 52 settlements from 1938 to 1947 largely decided the borders of Israel in the UN 29 November 1947 decision, is attributed to kibbutz member Shlomo Gur.

In the 20th century and after, many enclaves Jewish settlements in Israel were and are surrounded by fortified walls, as are many parts of Belfast, Northern Ireland by the " peace lines ".

He was also active in canvassing financial support for the Jewish settlements in the Land of Israel, then under the control of the Ottoman Empire.