neither has the establishment of the State of Israel fostered harmony between Muslims and Jews.

For this story of an American couple who meet and fall in love in Israel, Mr. Herman has written songs that are warmly melodious and dance music that sparkles.

Mr. Herman has managed to mix musical ideas drawn from Israel and the standard American ballad style in a manner that stresses the basic tunefulness of both idioms.

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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 ).

" The plight of Israel has become hopeless.

" The old priest, Eli, fell dead when he heard it ; and his daughter-in-law, bearing a son at the time the news of the capture of the Ark was received, named him Ichabod — explained as " The glory has departed Israel.

Rabbi Steinsaltz has received many awards and prizes, among them the Israel Prize for Jewish studies in 1988.

Bromine is rarer than about three-quarters of elements in the Earth's crust ; however, the high solubility of bromide ion has caused its accumulation in the oceans, and commercially the element is easily extracted from brine pools, mostly in the United States, Israel and China.

Joshua takes forward Deuteronomy's theme of Israel as a single people worshiping Yahweh in the land God has given them.

The land is Yahweh's to give or withhold, and the fact that he has promised it to Israel gives Israel an inalienable right to take it.

Another important passage was Isaiah 40: 3 – 5, which imagines the exiled Israel proceeding home to Jerusalem on a newly-constructed road, led by the victorious Yahweh who has conquered the gods of Babylon.

The promise has three elements: posterity ( i. e., descendants-Abraham is told that his descendants will be as innumerable as the stars ), divine-human relationship ( Israel is to be God's chosen people ), and land ( the land of Canaan, cursed by Noah immediately after the Deluge ).

The book opens with the Israelites in the land which God has promised to them but worshiping " foreign gods " instead of Yahweh, the god of Israel, and with the Canaanites still present everywhere.

* Othniel ( 3: 9-11 ) vs. Cushan-Rishathaim, King of Aram ; Israel has 40 years peace until the death of Othniel.

( The statement that Israel has a certain period of peace after each judge is a recurrent theme )

The essence of Deuteronomistic theology is that Israel has entered into a covenant ( a treaty, a binding agreement ) with the god Yahweh, under which they agree to accept Yahweh as their god ( hence the phrase " god of Israel ") and Yahweh promises them a land where they can live in peace and prosperity.

The Deuteronomist's negative view of Saul and desire to show David as the first real king of Israel has obscured Saul's real achievements.

Kings begins with the death of David, to whom Yahweh, the god of Israel, has promised an eternal dynasty, and the succession of his son Solomon.

However, Israel has been unfaithful to God by following other gods and breaking the commandments which are the terms of the covenant, hence Israel is symbolized by a harlot who violates the obligations of marriage to her husband.

* A later promise ( 2: 12 – 13 ): These verses assume that judgement has already fallen and Israel is already scattered abroad.

Like Isaiah, the book has a vision of the punishment of Israel and creation of a " remnant ", followed by world peace centred on Zion under the leadership of a new Davidic monarch ; the people should do justice, turn to Yahweh, and await the end of their punishment.

Further themes are also present: the " sovereign freedom of Yahweh " ( God does not always do what is expected of him ); the " satirisation of foreign kings " ( who consistently underestimate Israel and Yahweh ); the concept of the " flawed agent " ( judges who are not adequate to the task before them ) and the disunity of the Israelite community ( which gathers pace as the stories succeed one another ).

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

Jordan's boundaries with Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia do not have the special significance that the border with Israel does ; these borders have not always hampered tribal nomads in their movements, yet for a few groups borders did separate them from traditional grazing areas and delimited by a series of agreements between the United Kingdom and the government of what eventually became Saudi Arabia ) was first formally defined in the Hadda Agreement of 1925.

It is always observed as a one-day holiday, both inside and outside the boundaries of the Land of Israel.

The festival's chief executive, Richard Moore, compared Loach's tactics to blackmail, stating that " we will not participate in a boycott against the State of Israel, just as we would not contemplate boycotting films from China or other nations involved in difficult long-standing historical disputes .” Australian lawmaker Michael Danby also criticised Loach ’ s tactics stating that “ Israelis and Australians have always had a lot in common, including contempt for the irritating British penchant for claiming cultural superiority.

On that occasion, Kilman reportedly clarified Vanuatu's position with regard to Palestine, saying " Vanuatu will always maintain its position to support the right of the Palestinian people to a homeland but at the same time with Israel existing as a state on its own, with secure borders ".

Exception to this are New Zealand, which changed in 1993 to use mixed-member proportional representation ; Israel, which has always used country wide proportional representation ; and Australia, which uses preferential voting.

These observations eventually overthrew the belief that Israel had always worshipped no other god but Yahweh.

In 2003 he explained his editorial policy for The Spectator was to " always be roughly speaking in favour of getting rid of Saddam, sticking up for Israel, free-market economics, expanding choice " and that the magazine was " not necessarily a Thatcherite Conservative or a neo-conservative magazine, even though in our editorial coverage we tend to follow roughly the conclusions of those lines of arguments ".

* Since Passover is always celebrated on 15 – 21 ( or 22 outside Israel ) Nisan, near the beginning of spring, " Holiday of Aviv " ( Pesach or Passover Is always on the 14th of Nisan.

This investigation, combined with the documents found by the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ), led the government of Israel to draw the conclusion that the al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades have always been directly funded by Yasser Arafat.

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

Although the group was initially a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ), it always opposed Yassir Arafat and opposes any political settlement with Israel ; for this reason, it has never participated in the peace process.

" According to CUNY journalism professor Eric Alterman, “ Nothing has been as consistent about the past 34 years of TNR as the magazine's devotion to Peretz's own understanding of what is good for Israel … It is really not too much to say that almost all of Peretz's political beliefs are subordinate to his commitment to Israel's best interests, and these interests as Peretz defines them almost always involve more war.

*" Wherever I go, I ’ m always going to Israel.

Oz credits a 1959 translation of American writer Sherwood Anderson ’ s short story collection Winesburg, Ohio with his decision to “ write about what was around me .” In A Tale of Love and Darkness, his memoir of coming of age in the midst of Israel ’ s violent birth pangs, Oz credits Anderson ’ s “ modest book ” with his own realization that " the written world … always revolves around the hand that is writing, wherever it happens to be writing: where you are is the center of the universe.

Like the authors of the Psalms, he gladly sinks his own identity in the wider one of the people of Israel ; so that it is not always easy to distinguish the personality of the speaker.

The President of Iran, Ahmadinejad each year makes a speech at the General Assembly, always highly critical of Israel.

In Israel, which is a quasi-common law jurisdiction, settlements almost always are submitted to the court, for two reasons: ( a ) only by submitting the settlement to the court can the litigants control whether the court will order one or more parties to pay costs, and ( b ) the plaintiff ( claimant ) usually prefers for the settlement to be given the effect of a judgment.

Sometimes referring to God and sometimes the mighty when used to refer to the true god of Israel, El is almost always qualified by additional words that further define the meaning that distinguises Him from false gods.

Howard Jacobson, a British novelist and journalist, calls this phenomenon " Jew-hating pure and simple, the Jew-hating which many of us have always suspected was the only explanation for the disgust that contorts and disfigures faces when the mere word Israel crops up in conversation.