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.

Supporters of this view believe that the Roman Empire does not threaten the spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ because Luke “ simply recognizes its existence as a political reality, but he is clear that God is greater .” Throughout Acts, believers like Paul are being charged with spiritual crimes concerning “ teaching against Israel, the law, and the temple ” ( Acts 21: 21, 28 ; 23: 29 ; 24: 5 ; 25: 8, 19 ; 28: 17 ) or being a civil disturbance ( Acts 16: 20, 21: 38, 25: 8 ) rather than political charges.

Rather than being written as history, the Deuteronomistic history – Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings – was intended to illustrate a theological scheme in which Israel and her leaders are judged by their obedience to the teachings and laws ( the covenant ) set down in the book of Deuteronomy.

* Apostasy: the great tragedy of Israel's history, meaning the destruction of the kingdom and the Temple, is due to the failure of the people, but more especially the kings, to worship Yahweh alone ( Yahweh being the god of Israel ).

In 1999, Pissarro's " Boulevard Montmartre, Spring, 1887 " turned up in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after being donated, its donor having been unaware of its pre-war provenance.

For strictly observant Jews, being " chosen " fundamentally means that it was God's wish that a group of people would exist in a covenant, and would be bound to obey a certain set of laws as a duty of their covenant, and that the Children of Israel chose to enter into this covenant with God.

In 1849, during his tour of Britain he completed ( a decade and a half before the name Christadelphian was conceived ) Elpis Israel ( elpis being Greek for " hope ") – in which he laid out his understanding of the main doctrines of the Bible.

The Egyptian military is one of the strongest in the region, and gives Egypt regional military supremacy rivaled only by Israel, besides being one of the strongest in Africa.

Equipment from the Soviet Union is being progressively replaced by more modern U. S., French, and British equipment, a significant portion of which is built under license in Egypt, such as the M1A1 Abrams tank which makes Egypt the owner of the second largest number of latest generation main battle tanks in the region after Israel, and the second after Syria in case of the older generations.

The goal of the divine plan as revealed in Exodus is a return to man's state in Eden, so that God can dwell with the Israelites as he had with Adam and Eve through the Ark and Tabernacle, which together form a model of the universe ; in later Abrahamic religions this came to be interpreted as Israel being the guardian of God's plan for mankind, to bring " God's creation blessing to mankind " begun in Adam.

It generally resonates better with existing Muslim views than with Christianity: it foretells the coming of Muhammad by name ; rather than describing the crucifixion of Jesus, it describes him being raised up into heaven, similar to the description of Elijah in 2 Kings, Chapter 2 ; and it calls Jesus a " prophet " whose mission was restricted to the " house of Israel ".

According to some Christians and Karaites, the tradition in ancient Israel was that 1 Nisan would not start until the barley is ripe, being the test for the onset of spring.

The codification efforts that culminated in the Shulchan Aruch divide the law into four sections, including only laws that do not depend on being in the Land of Israel.

This occurred at the same time that Israel was being destroyed by Assyria, and was probably the result of a cooperative arrangement with the Assyrians to establish Judah as an Assyrian vassal controlling the valuable olive industry.

Additionally, Hezbollah claims that three Lebanese prisoners are being held in Israel.

Currently, two locations in Israel and one in Iran all lay claim to being the burial site of the prophet.

Several democracies, including India, Israel and the United States, take a flexible, eclectic approach, recognizing aspects of public international law such as territorial rights as universal, regarding other aspects as arising from treaty or custom, and viewing certain aspects as not being subjects of public international law at all.

The Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrian ruler Sargon II in the late 8th century BCE with many people from the capital Samaria being taken captive to Media and the Khabur River valley.

* 2006 – Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre and what Israel considers to be an attempt to stop rockets ' being fired, from Lebanon, at Israeli civilian targets.

In the Assyrian documents he is simply referred to as " Jehu son of Omri " ( The House of Omri being an Assyrian name for the Kingdom of Israel ).

Joshua ( Yĕhôshúa ‘;, Yūshaʿ ibn Nūn ), is a figure in the Torah, being one of the spies for Israel ( Num 13-14 ) and in few passages as Moses ' assistant.

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.

" Within a year, Sloane was being performed in New York, Spain, Israel and Australia, as well as being made into a film and a television play.

Israel was divided in accepting the money. The agreement was condemned by some Israelis as simply an expedient whereby Germany would buy off Jewish survivors to regain credibility on the international stage, and Adenauer was criticised for being too lenient towards politically compromised individuals whose past treatment of Jews was at best questionable.

On the other hand, in Israel Marcel Janco is best known as the ' father ' of the artists ' colony of Ein Hod [...] and for his pedagogic achievements in the young Jewish state.

5: There went up with him also certain of the children of Israel, of the priest of the Levites, of the holy singers, porters, and ministers of the temple, unto Jerusalem, [...] 68: Now when these things were done, the rulers came unto me, and said, 69: The nation of Israel, the princes, the priests and Levites, have not put away from them the strange people of the land, nor the pollutions of the Gentiles to wit, of the Canaanites, Hittites, Pheresites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.

It was " transferred [...] according to the law of redemption from imprisonment which it had fallen in Jerusalem, the Holy City, may it be rebuilt and reestablished, to the congregation in Egypt of Knisat Yerushalayim, may it be built and established in the life of Israel.

She has said that she supports a two-state solution in theory but that it cannot work in practice, commenting: " I would have no problem with a Palestine that would live in peace alongside Israel [...] I respond to the evidence of what is actually happening.

He wrote in The Jewish Chronicle: " Now, as it happens, I have multiple criticisms of IJV [...] but even their most trenchant opponents must surely blanch at the notion that these critics of Israel and of Anglo-Jewish officialdom are somehow in favour of genocide — literally, eager to see the murder and eradication of the Jewish people [...] it is an absurdity, one that drains the word ' genocide ' of any meaning.

He re-iterated his view that the world is " witnessing a new and escalating [...] and even lethal anti-Semitism " focused on hatred of Israel, but added that this type of antisemitism should not be defined in a way that precludes " free speech " and " rigorous debate " about Israel's activities.