Israel Explained

Conventional Long Name:	State of Israel
Native Name:
Common Name:	Israel
Alt Flag:	The flag of Israel – Star of David centred between two horizontal stripes of a Tallit (a Jewish prayer shawl)
Coa Size:	80
Alt Coat:	Menorah surrounded by an olive branch on either side
National Anthem:	Hebrew: הַתִּקְוָה (Hatīkvāh; "The Hope")
Alt Map:	Israel proper shown in dark green; Israeli-occupied territories shown in light green
Capital:	Jerusalem (limited recognition)
Coordinates:	31.7833°N 48°W
Largest City:	capital
Languages Type:	Official language
Languages:	Hebrew^[1]
Languages2 Type:	Special status
Languages2:	Arabic
Ethnic Groups Year:	2023
Religion Year:	2016
Religion Ref:	^[2]
Demonym:	Israeli
Government Type:	Unitary parliamentary republic
Leader Title1:	President
Leader Name1:	Isaac Herzog
Leader Title2:	Prime Minister
Leader Name2:	Benjamin Netanyahu
Leader Title3:	Knesset Speaker
Leader Name3:	Amir Ohana
Leader Title4:	Chief Justice
Leader Name4:	Uzi Vogelman (acting)
Legislature:	Knesset
Sovereignty Type:	Establishment
Established Event1:	Declaration of independence
Established Date1:	14 May 1948
Established Event2:	Admission to the United Nations
Established Date2:	11 May 1949
Established Event3:	Current Basic Law
Established Date3:	19 July 2018
Area Km2:	22,072 or 20,770^[3] ^[4]
Area Sq Mi:	8,470
Area Rank:	149th
Percent Water:	2.71^[5]
Population Estimate:	9,900,000^[6]
Population Estimate Rank:	93rd
Population Census:	9,601,720^[7]
Population Census Year:	2022
Population Density Rank:	29th
Gdp Ppp:	$552.151 billion^[8]
Gdp Ppp Per Capita:	$55,533
Gdp Ppp Year:	2024
Gdp Ppp Rank:	47th
Gdp Ppp Per Capita Rank:	29th
Gdp Nominal:	$530.664 billion
Gdp Nominal Year:	2024
Gdp Nominal Rank:	29th
Gdp Nominal Per Capita:	$53,372
Gdp Nominal Per Capita Rank:	18th
Gini:	34.8
Gini Ref:	^[9]
Gini Year:	2018
Hdi Year:	2022
Hdi:	0.915
Hdi Change:	increase
Hdi Rank:	25th
Hdi Ref:	^[10]
Currency:	New shekel (Hebrew: ₪)
Currency Code:	ILS
Time Zone:	IST
Utc Offset:	+2:00
Time Zone Dst:	IDT
Utc Offset Dst:	+3:00
Drives On:	right
Cctld:	.il
Iso3166code:	IL
Calling Code:	+972

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon and Syria to the north, the West Bank and Jordan to the east, the Gaza Strip and Egypt to the southwest, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west.^[11] The country also has a small coastline on the Red Sea at its southernmost point, and part of the Dead Sea lies along its eastern border. Israel's proclaimed capital is in Jerusalem,^[12] while Tel Aviv is the country's largest urban area and economic center.

Israel is located in a region known to Jews as the Land of Israel, synonymous with the Palestine region, the Holy Land, and Canaan. In antiquity, it was home to the Canaanite civilization followed by the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Situated at a continental crossroad, the region experienced demographic changes under the rule of various empires from the Romans to the Ottomans.^[13] European antisemitism in the late 19th century galvanized Zionism, which sought a Jewish homeland in Palestine and gained British support. After World War I, Britain occupied the region and established Mandatory Palestine in 1920. Increased Jewish immigration in the leadup to the Holocaust and British colonial policy led to intercommunal conflict between Jews and Arabs,^{[14] [15]} which escalated into a civil war in 1947 after the UN proposed partitioning the land between them.

The State of Israel declared its establishment on 14 May 1948. The armies of neighboring Arab states invaded the area of the former Mandate the next day, beginning the First Arab–Israeli War. Subsequent armistice agreements established Israeli control over 77 percent of the former Mandate territory.^{[16] [17]} The majority of Palestinian Arabs were either expelled or fled in what is known as the Nakba, with those remaining becoming the new state's main minority.^{[18] [19]} Over the following decades, Israel's population increased massively as the country received an influx of Jews who emigrated, fled or were expelled from the Muslim world.^{[20] [21]} Following the 1967 Six-Day War Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Egyptian Sinai Peninsula and Syrian Golan Heights. Israel established and continues to expand settlements across the illegally occupied territories, contrary to international law, and has effectively annexed East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights in moves largely unrecognized internationally. After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel signed peace treaties with Egypt—returning the Sinai in 1982—and Jordan. In the 2020s it normalized relations with more Arab countries. However, efforts to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict after the interim Oslo Accords have not succeeded, and the country has engaged in several wars and clashes with Palestinian militant groups. Israel's practices in the occupied territories have drawn sustained international criticism, including accusations of war crimes against Palestinians from human rights advocates and United Nations officials.

The country's Basic Laws establish a unicameral parliament elected by proportional representation, the Knesset, which determines the makeup of the government headed by the prime minister and elects the figurehead president. Israel is the only country to have a revived official language, Hebrew. Its culture comprises Jewish and Jewish diaspora elements alongside Arab influences, involving cuisine, music, and art. Israel has one of the biggest economies in the Middle East and among the highest GDP per capita and standards of living in Asia. One of the most technologically advanced and developed countries in the world, it spends proportionally more on research and development than any other and is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons.^{[22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27]} The country joined the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in 2010 and has the only above-replacement fertility rate among its members.^{[28] [29] [30]}

Etymology

Under the British Mandate (1920–1948), the whole region was known as Palestine.^[31] Upon establishment in 1948, the country formally adopted the name State of Israel (Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, pronounced as /he/; Arabic: دَوْلَة إِسْرَائِيل,, pronounced as /ar/) after other proposed names including Land of Israel (Hebrew: Eretz Israel), Ever (from ancestor Eber), Zion, and Judea, were considered but rejected.^[32] The name Israel was suggested by Ben-Gurion and passed by a vote of 6–3.^[33] In the early weeks after establishment, the government chose the term Israeli to denote a citizen of the Israeli state.^[34]

The names Land of Israel and Children of Israel have historically been used to refer to the biblical Kingdom of Israel and the entire Jewish people respectively.^[35] The name Israel (Hebrew: Hebrew: Yīsrāʾēl; Septuagint Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἰσραήλ, Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Israēl, "El (God) persists/rules", though after 12:4 often interpreted as "struggle with God") refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the angel of the Lord.^[36] The earliest known archaeological artefact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late 13th century BCE).^[37]

History

See main article: History of Israel.

Prehistory

Early hominin presence in the Levant, where Israel is located, dates back at least 1.5 million years based on the Ubeidiya prehistoric site.^[38] The Skhul and Qafzeh hominins, dating back 120,000 years, are some of the earliest traces of anatomically modern humans outside of Africa.^[39] The Natufian culture emerged by the 10th millennium BCE,^[40] followed by the Ghassulian culture by around 4,500 BCE.^[41]

Bronze and Iron Ages

See main article: History of ancient Israel and Judah.

Early references to "Canaanites" and "Canaan" appear in Near Eastern and Egyptian texts (c. 2000 BCE); these populations were structured as politically independent city-states.^[42] During the Late Bronze Age (1550–1200 BCE), large parts of Canaan formed vassal states of the New Kingdom of Egypt.^[43] As a result of the Late Bronze Age collapse, Canaan fell into chaos, and Egyptian control over the region collapsed.^{[44] [45]}

A people named Israel appear for the first time in the Merneptah Stele, an ancient Egyptian inscription which dates to about 1200 BCE.^{[46] [47] [48]} Ancestors of the Israelites are thought to have included ancient Semitic-speaking peoples native to this area.^[49] Modern archaeological accounts suggest that the Israelites and their culture branched out of the Canaanite peoples^[50] through the development of a distinct monolatristic—and later monotheistic—religion centered on Yahweh.^{[51] [52]} They spoke an archaic form of Hebrew, known as Biblical Hebrew.^[53] Around the same time, the Philistines settled on the southern coastal plain.

Modern archaeology has largely discarded the historicity of the narrative in the Torah and instead views the narrative as the Israelites' national myth.^[54] However, some elements of these traditions do appear to have historical roots.^{[55] [56] [57]} There is debate about the earliest existence of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah and their extent and power. While it is unclear if there was ever a United Kingdom of Israel,^{[58] [59]} historians and archaeologists agree that the northern Kingdom of Israel existed by 900 BCE^{[60] [61]} and the Kingdom of Judah by 850 BCE.^{[62] [63]} The Kingdom of Israel was the more prosperous of the two and soon developed into a regional power, with a capital at Samaria;^{[64] [65] [66]} during the Omride dynasty, it controlled Samaria, Galilee, the upper Jordan Valley, the Sharon and large parts of the Transjordan.^[67]

The Kingdom of Israel was conquered around 720 BCE by the Neo-Assyrian Empire.^[68] The Kingdom of Judah, under Davidic rule with its capital in Jerusalem, later became a client state of first the Neo-Assyrian Empire and then the Neo-Babylonian Empire. It is estimated that the region's population was around 400,000 in the Iron Age II.^[69] In 587/6 BCE, following a revolt in Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar II besieged and destroyed Jerusalem and Solomon's Temple,^{[70] [71]} dissolved the kingdom and exiled much of the Judean elite to Babylon.^[72]

Classical antiquity

See main article: Second Temple period. After capturing Babylon in 539 BCE, Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire, issued a proclamation allowing the exiled Judean population to return to Judah.^{[73] [74]} The construction of the Second Temple was completed . The Achaemenids ruled the region as the province of Yehud Medinata.^[75] In 332 BCE, Alexander the Great of Macedon conquered the region as part of his campaign against the Achaemenid Empire. After his death, the area was controlled by the Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires as a part of Coele-Syria. Over the ensuing centuries, the Hellenization of the region led to cultural tensions that came to a head during the reign of Antiochus IV, giving rise to the Maccabean Revolt of 167 BCE. The civil unrest weakened Seleucid rule and in the late 2nd century the semi-autonomous Hasmonean Kingdom of Judea arose, eventually attaining full independence and expanding into neighboring regions.^{[76] [77] [78]}

The Roman Republic invaded the region in 63 BCE, first taking control of Syria, and then intervening in the Hasmonean Civil War. The struggle between pro-Roman and pro-Parthian factions in Judea led to the installation of Herod the Great as a dynastic vassal of Rome. In 6 CE, the area was annexed as the Roman province of Judaea; tensions with Roman rule led to a series of Jewish–Roman wars, resulting in widespread destruction. The First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE) resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple and a sizable portion of the population being killed or displaced.^[79]

A second uprising known as the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136 CE) initially allowed the Jews to form an independent state, but the Romans brutally crushed the rebellion, devastating and depopulating Judea's countryside.^{[80] [81] [82] [83]} Jerusalem was rebuilt as a Roman colony (Aelia Capitolina), and the province of Judea was renamed Syria Palaestina.^{[84] [85]} Jews were expelled from the districts surrounding Jerusalem.^[86] Nevertheless, there was a continuous small Jewish presence and Galilee became its religious center.^{[87] [88]}

Late antiquity and the medieval period

Early Christianity displaced Roman paganism in the 4th century CE, with Constantine embracing and promoting the Christian religion and Theodosius I making it the state religion. A series of laws were passed that discriminated against Jews and Judaism, and Jews were persecuted by both the church and the authorities.^[89] Many Jews had emigrated to flourishing Diaspora communities,^[90] while locally there was both Christian immigration and local conversion. By the middle of the 5th century, there was a Christian majority.^{[91] [92]} Towards the end of the 5th century, Samaritan revolts erupted, continuing until the late 6th century and resulting in a large decrease in the Samaritan population.^[93] After the Sasanian conquest of Jerusalem and the short-lived Jewish revolt against Heraclius in 614 CE, the Byzantine Empire reconsolidated control of the area in 628.^[94]

In 634–641 CE, the Rashidun Caliphate conquered the Levant.^{[90] [95] [96]} Over the next six centuries, control of the region transferred between the Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid caliphates, and subsequently the Seljuks and Ayyubid dynasties.^[97] The population drastically decreased during the following several centuries, dropping from an estimated 1 million during Roman and Byzantine periods to about 300,000 by the early Ottoman period, and there was a steady process of Arabization and Islamization.^{[98] [69] [99]} The end of the 11th century brought the Crusades, papally-sanctioned incursions of Christian crusaders intent on wresting Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim control and establishing Crusader States. The Ayyubids pushed back the crusaders before Muslim rule was fully restored by the Mamluk sultans of Egypt in 1291.^[100]

Modern period and the emergence of Zionism

See main article: Ottoman Syria, Jerusalem Sanjak and Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem. In 1516, the Ottoman Empire conquered the region and ruled it as part of Ottoman Syria.^[101] Two violent incidents took place against Jews, the 1517 Safed attacks and the 1517 Hebron attacks, after the Turkish Ottomans ousted the Mamluks during the Ottoman–Mamluk War.^{[102] [103]} Under the Ottoman Empire, the Levant was fairly cosmopolitan, with religious freedoms for Christians, Muslims, and Jews. In 1561 the Ottoman sultan invited Sephardi Jews escaping the Spanish Inquisition to settle in and rebuild the city of Tiberias.^{[104] [105]}

Under the Ottoman Empire's millet system, Christians and Jews were considered dhimmi (meaning "protected") under Ottoman law in exchange for loyalty to the state and payment of the jizya tax.^{[106] [107]} Non-Muslim Ottoman subjects faced geographic and lifestyle restrictions, though these were not always enforced.^{[108] [109]} The millet system organized non-Muslims into autonomous communities on the basis of religion.^[110]

Since the existence of the Jewish diaspora, many Jews have aspired to return to "Zion".^[111] The Jewish population of Palestine from the Ottoman rule to the beginning of the Zionist movement, known as the Old Yishuv, comprised a minority and fluctuated in size. During the 16th century, Jewish communities struck roots in the Four Holy Cities—Jerusalem, Tiberias, Hebron, and Safed—and in 1697, Rabbi Yehuda Hachasid led a group of 1,500 Jews to Jerusalem.^[112] A 1660 Druze revolt against the Ottomans destroyed Safed and Tiberias. In the second half of the 18th century, Eastern European Jews who were opponents of Hasidism, known as the Perushim, settled in Palestine.^{[113] [114]}

In the late 18th century, local Arab Sheikh Zahir al-Umar created a de facto independent Emirate in the Galilee. Ottoman attempts to subdue the Sheikh failed. After Zahir's death the Ottomans regained control of the area. In 1799, governor Jazzar Pasha repelled an assault on Acre by Napoleon's troops, prompting the French to abandon the Syrian campaign.^[115] In 1834, a revolt by Palestinian Arab peasants against Egyptian conscription and taxation policies under Muhammad Ali was suppressed; Muhammad Ali's army retreated and Ottoman rule was restored with British support in 1840.^[116] The Tanzimat reforms were implemented across the Ottoman Empire.

The first wave of modern Jewish migration to Ottoman-ruled Palestine, known as the First Aliyah, began in 1881, as Jews fled pogroms in Eastern Europe.^[117] The 1882 May Laws increased economic discrimination against Jews, and restricted where they could live.^{[118] [119]} In response, political Zionism took form, a movement that sought to establish a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, thus offering a solution to the Jewish question of the European states.

The Second Aliyah (1904–1914) began after the Kishinev pogrom; some 40,000 Jews settled in Palestine, although nearly half left eventually. Both the first and second waves of migrants were mainly Orthodox Jews.^[120] The Second Aliyah included Zionist socialist groups who established the kibbutz movement based on the idea of establishing a separate Jewish economy based exclusively on Jewish labor.^[121] Those of the Second Aliyah who became leaders of the Yishuv in the coming decades believed that the Jewish settler economy should not depend on Arab labor. This would be a dominant source of antagonism with the Arab population, with the new Yishuv's nationalist ideology overpowering its socialist one.^[122] Though the immigrants of the Second Aliyah largely sought to create communal Jewish agricultural settlements, Tel Aviv was established as the first planned Jewish town in 1909. Jewish armed militias emerged during this period, the first being Bar-Giora in 1907. Two years later, the larger Hashomer organization was founded as its replacement.

British Mandate for Palestine

See main article: Mandatory Palestine.

See also: Balfour Declaration, United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine and Jewish land purchase in Palestine.

Chaim Weizmann's efforts to garner British support for the Zionist movement eventually secured the Balfour Declaration (1917),^[123] stating Britain's support for the creation of a Jewish "national home" in Palestine.^{[124] [125]} Weizmann's interpretation of the declaration was that negotiations on the future of the country were to happen directly between Britain and the Jews, excluding Arabs. The years that followed would see Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine deteriorate dramatically.^[126]

In 1918, the Jewish Legion, primarily Zionist volunteers, assisted in the British conquest of Palestine.^[127] In 1920, the territory was divided between Britain and France under the mandate system, and the British-administered area (including modern Israel) was named Mandatory Palestine.^{[100] [128] [129]} Arab opposition to British rule and Jewish immigration led to the 1920 Palestine riots and the formation of a Jewish militia known as the Haganah as an outgrowth of Hashomer, from which the Irgun and Lehi paramilitaries later split.^[130] In 1922, the League of Nations granted Britain the Mandate for Palestine under terms which included the Balfour Declaration with its promise to the Jews, and with similar provisions regarding the Arab Palestinians.^[131] The population of the area was predominantly Arab and Muslim, with Jews accounting for about 11%,^[132] and Arab Christians about 9.5% of the population.^[133]

The Third (1919–1923) and Fourth Aliyahs (1924–1929) brought an additional 100,000 Jews to Palestine. The rise of Nazism and the increasing persecution of Jews in 1930s Europe led to the Fifth Aliyah, with an influx of a quarter of a million Jews. This was a major cause of the Arab revolt of 1936–39, which was suppressed by British security forces and Zionist militias. Several hundred British security personnel and Jews were killed. 5,032 Arabs were killed, 14,760 were wounded, and 12,622 were detained.^{[134] [135] [136]} An estimated ten percent of the adult male Palestinian Arab population was killed, wounded, imprisoned or exiled.^[137]

The British introduced restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine with the White Paper of 1939. With countries around the world turning away Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust, a clandestine movement known as Aliyah Bet was organized to bring Jews to Palestine. By the end of World War II, 31% of the total population of Palestine was Jewish.^[138] The UK found itself facing a Jewish insurgency over immigration restrictions and continued conflict with the Arab community over limit levels. The Haganah joined Irgun and Lehi in an armed struggle against British rule. The Haganah attempted to bring tens of thousands of Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors to Palestine by ship in a programme called Aliyah Bet. Most of the ships were intercepted by the Royal Navy and the refugees placed in detention camps in Atlit and Cyprus.^{[139] [140]}

On 22 July 1946, Irgun bombed the British administrative headquarters for Palestine, killing 91.^{[141] [142] [143] [144] [145] [146]} The attack was a response to Operation Agatha (a series of raids, including one on the Jewish Agency, by the British) and was the deadliest directed at the British during the Mandate era.^{[145] [146]} The Jewish insurgency continued throughout 1946 and 1947 despite concerted efforts by the British military and Palestine Police Force to suppress it. British efforts to mediate a negotiated solution with Jewish and Arab representatives also failed as the Jews were unwilling to accept any solution that did not involve a Jewish state and suggested a partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, while the Arabs were adamant that a Jewish state in any part of Palestine was unacceptable and that the only solution was a unified Palestine under Arab rule. In February 1947, the British referred the Palestine issue to the newly formed United Nations. On 15 May 1947, the UN General Assembly resolved that a Special Committee be created "to prepare ... a report on the question of Palestine".^[147] The Report of the Committee^[148] proposed a plan to replace the British Mandate with "an independent Arab State, an independent Jewish State, and the City of Jerusalem [...] the last to be under an International Trusteeship System".^[149] Meanwhile, the Jewish insurgency continued and peaked in July 1947, with a series of widespread guerrilla raids culminating in the Sergeants affair, in which the Irgun took two British sergeants hostage as attempted leverage against the planned execution of three Irgun operatives. After the executions were carried out, the Irgun killed the two British soldiers, hanged their bodies from trees, and left a booby trap at the scene which injured a British soldier. The incident caused widespread outrage in the UK.^[150] In September 1947, the British cabinet decided to evacuate Palestine as the Mandate was no longer tenable.^[151]

On 29 November 1947, the General Assembly adopted Resolution 181 (II).^[152] The plan attached to the resolution was essentially that proposed in the report of 3 September. The Jewish Agency, the recognized representative of the Jewish community, accepted the plan, which assigned 55–56% of Mandatory Palestine to the Jews. At the time, the Jews were about a third of the population and owned around 6–7% of the land. Arabs constituted the majority and owned about 20% of the land, with the remainder held by the Mandate authorities or foreign landowners.^{[153] [154] [155] [156] [157] [158] [159]} The Arab League and Arab Higher Committee of Palestine rejected it,^[160] and indicated that they would reject any other plan of partition.^[161] On 1 December 1947, the Arab Higher Committee proclaimed a three-day strike, and riots broke out in Jerusalem.^[162] The situation spiraled into a civil war. Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones announced that the British Mandate would end on 15 May 1948, at which point the British would evacuate. As Arab militias and gangs attacked Jewish areas, they were faced mainly by the Haganah, as well as the smaller Irgun and Lehi. In April 1948, the Haganah moved onto the offensive.^[163] During this period 250,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled, due to numerous factors.

State of Israel

See main article: History of Israel (1948–present).

Establishment and early years

On 14 May 1948, the day before the expiration of the British Mandate, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, declared "the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel".^[164] The only reference in the text of the Declaration to the borders of the new state is the use of the term Eretz-Israel ("Land of Israel"). The following day, the armies of four Arab countries—Egypt, Syria, Transjordan and Iraq—entered what had been Mandatory Palestine, launching the 1948 Arab–Israeli War;^{[165] [166]} contingents from Yemen, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Sudan joined the war.^[167] The apparent purpose of the invasion was to prevent the establishment of the Jewish state; some Arab leaders talked about "driving the Jews into the sea".^{[158] [168] [169]} The Arab league stated the invasion was to restore order and prevent further bloodshed.^[170]

After a year of fighting, a ceasefire was declared and temporary borders, known as the Green Line, were established.^[171] Jordan annexed what became known as the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip. Over 700,000 Palestinians were expelled by or fled by Zionist militias and the Israeli military—what would become known in Arabic as the Nakba ('catastrophe').^[172] The events also led to the destruction of most of Palestine's predominantly Arab population's society, culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations. Some 156,000 remained and became Arab citizens of Israel.^[173]

Israel was admitted as a member of the UN on 11 May 1949.^[174] In the early years of the state, the Labor Zionist movement led by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion dominated Israeli politics.^[175] Immigration to Israel during the late 1940s and early 1950s was aided by the Israeli Immigration Department and the non-government sponsored Mossad LeAliyah Bet ("Institute for Immigration B").^[176] The latter engaged in clandestine operations in countries, particularly in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, where the lives of Jews were believed to be in danger and exit was difficult. Mossad LeAliyah Bet was disbanded in 1953.^[177] The immigration was in accordance with the One Million Plan. Some immigrants held Zionist beliefs or came for the promise of a better life, while others moved to escape persecution or were expelled.^{[178] [179]}

An influx of Holocaust survivors and Jews from Arab and Muslim countries to Israel during the first three years increased the number of Jews from 700,000 to 1,400,000. By 1958, the population had risen to two million.^[180] Between 1948 and 1970, approximately 1,150,000 Jewish refugees relocated to Israel.^[181] Some new immigrants arrived as refugees and were housed in temporary camps known as ma'abarot; by 1952, over 200,000 people were living in these tent cities.^[182] Jews of European background were often treated more favorably than Jews from Middle Eastern and North African countries—housing units reserved for the latter were often re-designated for the former, so Jews newly arrived from Arab lands generally ended up staying longer in transit camps.^[183] During this period, food, clothes and furniture were rationed in what became known as the austerity period. The need to solve the crisis led Ben-Gurion to sign a reparations agreement with West Germany that triggered mass protests by Jews angered at the idea that Israel could accept monetary compensation for the Holocaust.

Arab–Israeli conflict

See main article: Arab–Israeli conflict. During the 1950s, Israel was frequently attacked by Palestinian fedayeen, nearly always against civilians,^[184] mainly from the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip, leading to several Israeli reprisal operations. In 1956, the UK and France aimed at regaining control of the Suez Canal, which Egypt had nationalized. The continued blockade of the Suez Canal and Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, together with increasing Fedayeen attacks against Israel's southern population and recent Arab threatening statements, prompted Israel to attack Egypt.^{[185] [186] [187]} Israel joined a secret alliance with the UK and France and overran the Sinai Peninsula in the Suez Crisis, but was pressured to withdraw by the UN in return for guarantees of Israeli shipping rights.^{[188] [189] [190]} The war resulted in significant reduction of Israeli border infiltration.^[191]

In the early 1960s, Israel captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and brought him to Israel for trial. Eichmann remains the only person executed in Israel by conviction in an Israeli civilian court.^[192] In 1963 Israel was engaged in a diplomatic standoff with the United States due to the Israeli nuclear programme.^{[193] [194]}

Since 1964, Arab countries, concerned over Israeli plans to divert waters of the Jordan River into the coastal plain,^[195] had been trying to divert the headwaters to deprive Israel of water resources, provoking tensions between Israel on the one hand, and Syria and Lebanon on the other. Arab nationalists led by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser refused to recognize Israel and called for its destruction.^{[196] [197]} By 1966, Israeli-Arab relations had deteriorated to the point of battles taking place between Israeli and Arab forces.In May 1967, Egypt massed its army near the border with Israel, expelled UN peacekeepers, stationed in the Sinai Peninsula since 1957, and blocked Israel's access to the Red Sea.^{[198] [199] [200]} Other Arab states mobilized their forces. Israel reiterated that these actions were a casus belli and launched a pre-emptive strike against Egypt in June. Jordan, Syria and Iraq attacked Israel. In the Six-Day War, Israel captured and occupied the West Bank from Jordan, the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, and the Golan Heights from Syria.^[201] Jerusalem's boundaries were enlarged, incorporating East Jerusalem. The 1949 Green Line became the administrative boundary between Israel and the occupied territories.

Following the 1967 war and the "Three Nos" resolution of the Arab League, Israel faced attacks from the Egyptians in the Sinai Peninsula during the 1967–1970 War of Attrition, and from Palestinian groups targeting Israelis in the occupied territories, globally, and in Israel. Most important among the Palestinian and Arab groups was the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), established in 1964, which initially committed itself to "armed struggle as the only way to liberate the homeland".^[202] In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Palestinian groups launched attacks^{[203] [204]} against Israeli and Jewish targets around the world,^[205] including a massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The Israeli government responded with an assassination campaign against the organizers of the massacre, a bombing and a raid on the PLO headquarters in Lebanon.

On 6 October 1973, the Egyptian and Syrian armies launched a surprise attack against Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights, opening the Yom Kippur War. The war ended on 25 October with Israel repelling Egyptian and Syrian forces but suffering great losses.^[206] An internal inquiry exonerated the government of responsibility for failures before and during the war, but public anger forced Prime Minister Golda Meir to resign.^[207] In July 1976, an airliner was hijacked in flight from Israel to France by Palestinian guerrillas; Israeli commandos rescued 102 out of 106 Israeli hostages.

Peace process

See main article: Israeli–Palestinian peace process. The 1977 Knesset elections marked a major turning point in Israeli political history as Menachem Begin's Likud party took control from the Labor Party.^[208] Later that year, Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat made a trip to Israel and spoke before the Knesset in what was the first recognition of Israel by an Arab head of state. Sadat and Begin signed the Camp David Accords (1978) and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty (1979). In return, Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula and agreed to enter negotiations over autonomy for Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

On 11 March 1978, a PLO guerilla raid from Lebanon led to the Coastal Road massacre. Israel responded by launching an invasion of southern Lebanon to destroy PLO bases. Most PLO fighters withdrew, but Israel was able to secure southern Lebanon until a UN force and the Lebanese army could take over. The PLO soon resumed its insurgency against Israel, and Israel carried out numerous retaliatory attacks.

Meanwhile, Begin's government provided incentives for Israelis to settle in the occupied West Bank, increasing friction with the Palestinians there.^[209] The Jerusalem Law (1980) was believed by some to reaffirm Israel's 1967 annexation of Jerusalem by government decree, and reignited international controversy over the status of the city. No Israeli legislation has defined the territory of Israel and no act specifically included East Jerusalem therein.^[210] In 1981 Israel effectively annexed the Golan Heights.^[211] The international community largely rejected these moves, with the UN Security Council declaring both the Jerusalem Law and the Golan Heights Law null and void.^{[212] [213]} Several waves of Ethiopian Jews immigrated to Israel since the 1980s, while between 1990 and 1994, immigration from the post-Soviet states increased Israel's population by twelve percent.^[214]

On 7 June 1981, during the Iran–Iraq War, the Israeli air force destroyed Iraq's sole nuclear reactor, then under construction, in order to impede the Iraqi nuclear weapons program.^[215] Following a series of PLO attacks in 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon to destroy the PLO bases. In the first six days, the Israelis destroyed the military forces of the PLO in Lebanon and decisively defeated the Syrians. An Israeli government inquiry (the Kahan Commission) held Begin and several Israeli generals indirectly responsible for the Sabra and Shatila massacre and held Defense minister Ariel Sharon as bearing "personal responsibility".^[216] Sharon was forced to resign.^[217] In 1985, Israel responded to a Palestinian terrorist attack in Cyprus by bombing the PLO headquarters in Tunisia. Israel withdrew from most of Lebanon in 1986, but maintained a borderland buffer zone in southern Lebanon until 2000, from where Israeli forces engaged in conflict with Hezbollah. The First Intifada, a Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule,^[218] broke out in 1987, with waves of uncoordinated demonstrations and violence in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. Over the following six years, the Intifada became more organized and included economic and cultural measures aimed at disrupting the Israeli occupation. Over a thousand people were killed.^[219] During the 1991 Gulf War, the PLO supported Saddam Hussein and Iraqi missile attacks against Israel. Despite public outrage, Israel heeded American calls to refrain from hitting back.^[220]

In 1992, Yitzhak Rabin became prime minister following an election in which his party called for compromise with Israel's neighbours.^[221] The following year, Shimon Peres on behalf of Israel, and Mahmoud Abbas for the PLO, signed the Oslo Accords, which gave the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) the right to govern parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.^[222] The PLO also recognized Israel's right to exist and pledged an end to terrorism. In 1994, the Israel–Jordan peace treaty was signed, making Jordan the second Arab country to normalize relations with Israel.^[223] Arab public support for the Accords was damaged by the continuation of Israeli settlements^[224] and checkpoints, and the deterioration of economic conditions.^[225] Israeli public support for the Accords waned after Palestinian suicide attacks.^[226] In November 1995, Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a far-right Jew who opposed the Accords.^[227]

During Benjamin Netanyahu's premiership at the end of the 1990s, Israel agreed to withdraw from Hebron, though this was never ratified or implemented,^[228] and signed the Wye River Memorandum, giving greater control to the PNA.^[229] Ehud Barak, elected Prime Minister in 1999, withdrew forces from Southern Lebanon and conducted negotiations with PNA Chairman Yasser Arafat and U.S. President Bill Clinton at the 2000 Camp David Summit. Barak offered a plan for the establishment of a Palestinian state, including the entirety of the Gaza Strip and over 90% of the West Bank with Jerusalem as a shared capital. Each side blamed the other for the failure of the talks.

21st century

In late 2000, after a controversial visit by Likud leader Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount, the 4.5-year Second Intifada began. Suicide bombings were a recurrent feature.^[230] Some commentators contend that the Intifada was pre-planned by Arafat due to the collapse of peace talks.^{[231] [232] [233] [234]} Sharon became prime minister in a 2001 election; he carried out his plan to unilaterally withdraw from the Gaza Strip and spearheaded the construction of the Israeli West Bank barrier,^[235] ending the Intifada.^[236] Between 2000 and 2008, 1,063 Israelis, 5,517 Palestinians and 64 foreign citizens were killed.^[237]

In 2006, a Hezbollah artillery assault on Israel's northern border communities and a cross-border abduction of two Israeli soldiers precipitated the month-long Second Lebanon War.^{[238] [239]} In 2007, the Israeli Air Force destroyed a nuclear reactor in Syria. In 2008, a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel collapsed, resulting in the three-week Gaza War.^{[240] [241]} In what Israel described as a response to over a hundred Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israeli cities,^[242] Israel began an operation in the Gaza Strip in 2012, lasting eight days.^[243] Israel started another operation in Gaza following an escalation of rocket attacks by Hamas in July 2014.^[244] In May 2021, another round of fighting took place in Gaza and Israel, lasting eleven days.^[245]

By the 2010s, increasing regional cooperation between Israel and Arab League countries have been established, culminating in the signing of the Abraham Accords. The Israeli security situation shifted from the traditional Arab–Israeli conflict towards the Iran–Israel proxy conflict and direct confrontation with Iran during the Syrian civil war. On 7 October 2023, Palestinian militant groups from Gaza, led by Hamas, launched a series of coordinated attacks on Israel, leading to the start of the Israel–Hamas war.^[246] On that day, approximately 1300 Israelis, predominantly civilians, were killed in communities near the Gaza Strip border and during a music festival. Over 200 hostages were kidnapped and taken to the Gaza Strip.^{[247] [248] [249]}

Geography

See main article: Geography of Israel.

See also: Agriculture in Israel, Wildlife of Israel, List of forests in Israel and Yatir Forest.

Israel is located in the Levant area of the Fertile Crescent. The country is at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea, bounded by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank to the east, and Egypt and the Gaza Strip to the southwest. It lies between latitudes 29° and 34° N, and longitudes 34° and 36° E.

The sovereign territory of Israel (according to the demarcation lines of the 1949 Armistice Agreements and excluding all territories captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War) is approximately 207700NaN0, of which two percent is water.^[250] However Israel is so narrow (100 km at its widest, compared to 400 km from north to south) that the exclusive economic zone in the Mediterranean is double the land area of the country.^[251] The total area under Israeli law, including East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, is 220720NaN0,^[252] and the total area under Israeli control, including the military-controlled and partially Palestinian-governed territory of the West Bank, is 277990NaN0.^[253]

Despite its small size, Israel is home to a variety of geographic features, from the Negev desert in the south to the inland fertile Jezreel Valley, mountain ranges of the Galilee, Carmel and toward the Golan in the north. The Israeli coastal plain on the shores of the Mediterranean is home to most of the nation's population.^[254] East of the central highlands lies the Jordan Rift Valley, a small part of the 6500km (4,000miles) Great Rift Valley. The Jordan River runs along the Jordan Rift Valley, from Mount Hermon through the Hulah Valley and the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea, the lowest point on the surface of the Earth.^[255] Further south is the Arabah, ending with the Gulf of Eilat, part of the Red Sea. Makhtesh, or "erosion cirques" are unique to the Negev and the Sinai Peninsula, the largest being the Makhtesh Ramon at 38 km in length.^[256] Israel has the largest number of plant species per square meter of the countries in the Mediterranean Basin.^[257] Israel contains four terrestrial ecoregions: Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests, Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests, Arabian Desert, and Mesopotamian shrub desert.^[258]

Forests accounted for 8.5% of the country's area in 2016, up from 2% in 1948, as the result of a large-scale forest planting program by the Jewish National Fund.^{[259] [260]}

Tectonics and seismicity

The Jordan Rift Valley is the result of tectonic movements within the Dead Sea Transform (DSF) fault system. The DSF forms the transform boundary between the African Plate to the west and the Arabian Plate to the east. The Golan Heights and all of Jordan are part of the Arabian Plate, while the Galilee, West Bank, Coastal Plain, and Negev along with the Sinai Peninsula are on the African Plate. This tectonic disposition leads to a relatively high seismic activity. The entire Jordan Valley segment is thought to have ruptured repeatedly, for instance during the last two major earthquakes along this structure in 749 and 1033. The deficit in slip that has built up since the 1033 event is sufficient to cause an earthquake of ~7.4.^[261]

The most catastrophic known earthquakes occurred in 31 BCE, 363, 749, and 1033 CE, that is every 400 years on average.^[262] Destructive earthquakes leading to serious loss of life strike about every 80 years.^[263] While stringent construction regulations are in place and recently built structures are earthquake-safe, many public buildings as well as 50,000 residential buildings did not meet the new standards and were "expected to collapse" if exposed to a strong earthquake.^[263]

Climate

Temperatures in Israel vary widely, especially during the winter. Coastal areas, such as those of Tel Aviv and Haifa, have a typical Mediterranean climate with cool, rainy winters and long, hot summers. The area of Beersheba and the Northern Negev have a semi-arid climate with hot summers, cool winters, and fewer rainy days. The Southern Negev and the Arava areas have a desert climate with very hot, dry summers, and mild winters with few days of rain. The highest temperature in the world outside Africa and North America, 54 °C (129 °F), was recorded in 1942 in the Tirat Zvi kibbutz in the northern Jordan River valley.^{[264] [265]} Mountainous regions can be windy and cold, and areas at elevation of or more (same elevation as Jerusalem) usually receive at least one snowfall each year. From May to September, rain in Israel is rare.^{[266] [267]}

There are four different phytogeographic regions in Israel, due to the country's location between the temperate and tropical zones. For this reason, the flora and fauna are extremely diverse. There are 2,867 known species of plants in Israel. Of these, at least 253 species are introduced and non-native.^[268] There are 380 Israeli nature reserves.^[269]

With scarce water resources, Israel has developed various water-saving technologies, including drip irrigation.^[270] The considerable sunlight available for solar energy makes Israel the leading nation in solar energy use per capita—practically every house uses solar panels for water heating. The Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection has reported that climate change "will have a decisive impact on all areas of life", particularly for vulnerable populations.^[271]

Government and politics

See main article: Israeli system of government and Politics of Israel.

See also: Criticism of Israel.

Israel has a parliamentary system, proportional representation and universal suffrage. A member of parliament supported by a parliamentary majority becomes the prime minister—usually this is the chair of the largest party. The prime minister is the head of government and of cabinet.^[272] The president is head of state, with limited and largely ceremonial duties.^[273]

Israel is governed by a 120-member parliament, known as the Knesset. Membership of the Knesset is based on proportional representation of political parties,^[274] with a 3.25% electoral threshold, which in practice has resulted in coalition governments. Residents of Israeli settlements in the West Bank are eligible to vote^[275] and after the 2015 election, 10 of the 120 members of the Knesset were settlers.^[276] Parliamentary elections are scheduled every four years, but unstable coalitions or a no-confidence vote can dissolve a government earlier.^[277] The first Arab-led party was established in 1988^[278] and as of 2022, Arab-led parties hold about 10% of seats.^[279] The Basic Law: The Knesset (1958) and its amendments prevent a party list from running for election to the Knesset if its objectives or actions include the "negation of the existence of the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people".

The Basic Laws of Israel function as an uncodified constitution. In its Basic Laws, Israel defines itself as a Jewish and democratic state, and the nation-state of exclusively the Jewish people.^[280] In 2003, the Knesset began to draft an official constitution based on these laws.^[250]

Israel has no official religion,^{[281] [282] [283]} but the definition of the state as "Jewish and democratic" creates a strong connection with Judaism. On 19 July 2018, the Knesset passed a Basic Law that characterizes the State of Israel as principally a "Nation State of the Jewish People", and Hebrew as its official language. The bill ascribes, an undefined, "special status" to the Arabic language.^[284] The same bill gives Jews a unique right to national self-determination, and views the developing of Jewish settlement in the country as "a national interest", empowering the government to "take steps to encourage, advance and implement this interest".^[285]

Administrative divisions

See main article: Districts of Israel. The State of Israel is divided into six main administrative districts, known as mehozot (; : mahoz)—Center, Haifa, Jerusalem, North, South, and Tel Aviv districts, as well as the Judea and Samaria Area in the West Bank. All of the Judea and Samaria Area and parts of the Jerusalem and Northern districts are not recognized internationally as part of Israel. Districts are further divided into fifteen sub-districts known as nafot (; : nafa), which are themselves partitioned into fifty natural regions.^[286]

District	Capital	Largest city	Population, 2021^[287]
			Jews	Arabs	Total	note
Jerusalem	Jerusalem
North	Nof HaGalil	Nazareth
Haifa	Haifa
Center	Ramla	Rishon LeZion
Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv
South	Beersheba	Ashdod
Judea and Samaria Area	Ariel	Modi'in Illit

Including 361,700 Arabs and 233,900 Jews in East Jerusalem, .^[288]

Israeli citizens only.

Israeli citizenship law

See main article: Israeli citizenship law. The two primary pieces of legislation relating to Israeli citizenship are the 1950 Law of Return and 1952 Citizenship Law. The law of return grants Jews the unrestricted right to immigrate to Israel and obtain Israeli citizenship. Individuals born within the country receive birthright citizenship if at least one parent is a citizen.^[289]

Israeli law defines Jewish nationality as distinct from Israeli nationality, and the Supreme Court of Israel has ruled that an Israeli nationality does not exist.^{[290] [291]} Israeli law defines a Jewish national as any person practicing Judaism and their descendants.^[290] Legislation has defined Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people since 2018.^[292]

Israeli-occupied territories

See main article: Israeli-occupied territories, Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Golan Heights. In 1967, as a result of the Six-Day War, Israel captured and occupied the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. Israel also captured the Sinai Peninsula, but returned it to Egypt as part of the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty. Between 1982 and 2000, Israel occupied part of southern Lebanon, in what was known as the Security Belt. Since Israel's capture of these territories, Israeli settlements and military installations have been built within each of them, except Lebanon.

The Golan Heights and East Jerusalem have been fully incorporated into Israel under Israeli law, but not under international law. Israel has applied civilian law to both areas and granted their inhabitants permanent residency status and the ability to apply for citizenship. The UN Security Council has declared the annexation of the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem to be "null and void" and continues to view the territories as occupied.^{[293] [294]} The status of East Jerusalem in any future peace settlement has at times been a difficult issue in negotiations between Israeli governments and representatives of the Palestinians.

The West Bank excluding East Jerusalem is known in Israeli law as the Judea and Samaria Area. The almost 400,000 Israeli settlers residing in the area are considered part of Israel's population, have Knesset representation, are subject to a large part of Israel's civil and criminal laws, and their output is considered part of Israel's economy.^[295] The land itself is not considered part of Israel under Israeli law, as Israel has consciously refrained from annexing the territory, without ever relinquishing its legal claim to the land or defining a border.^[295] Israeli political opposition to annexation is primarily due to the perceived "demographic threat" of incorporating the West Bank's Palestinian population into Israel.^[295] Outside of the Israeli settlements, the West Bank remains under direct Israeli military rule, and Palestinians in the area cannot become Israeli citizens. The international community maintains that Israel does not have sovereignty in the West Bank, and considers Israel's control of the area to be the longest military occupation in modern history.^[296] The West Bank was occupied and annexed by Jordan in 1950, following the 1949 Armistice Agreements. Only Britain recognized this annexation and Jordan has since ceded its claim to the territory to the PLO. The population are mainly Palestinians, including refugees of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.^[297] From their occupation in 1967 until 1993, the Palestinians living in these territories were under Israeli military administration. Since the Israel–PLO letters of recognition, most of the Palestinian population and cities have been under the internal jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority, and only partial Israeli military control, although Israel has redeployed its troops and reinstated full military administration during periods of unrest. In response to increasing attacks during the Second Intifada, the Israeli government started to construct the Israeli West Bank barrier.^[298] When completed, approximately 13% of the barrier will be constructed on the Green Line or in Israel with 87% inside the West Bank.^{[299] [300]}

Israel's claim of universal suffrage has been questioned due to its blurred territorial boundaries and its simultaneous extension of voting rights to Israeli settlers in the occupied territories and denial of voting rights to their Palestinian neighbours, as well as the alleged ethnocratic nature of the state.^{[301] [302]}

The Gaza Strip is considered to be a "foreign territory" under Israeli law. Israel and Egypt operate a land, air, and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Strip was occupied by Israel after 1967. In 2005, as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, Israel removed its settlers and forces from the territory but continues to maintain control of its airspace and waters. The international community, including numerous international humanitarian organizations and UN bodies, consider Gaza to remain occupied.^{[303] [304] [305] [306] [307]} Following the 2007 Battle of Gaza, when Hamas assumed power in the Gaza Strip, Israel tightened control of the Gaza crossings along its border, as well as by sea and air, and prevented persons from entering and exiting except for isolated cases it deemed humanitarian.^[308] Gaza has a border with Egypt, and an agreement between Israel, the EU, and the PA governs how border crossings take place.^[309] The application of democracy to its Palestinian citizens, and the selective application of Israeli democracy in the Israeli-controlled Palestinian territories, has been criticized.^{[310] [311]}

International opinion

See also: Israeli war crimes.

The International Court of Justice said, in its 2004 advisory opinion on the legality of the construction of the Israeli West Bank barrier, that the lands captured by Israel in the Six-Day War, including East Jerusalem, are occupied territory and found that the construction of the wall within the occupied Palestinian territory violates international law.^[312] Most negotiations relating to the territories have been on the basis of UN Security Council Resolution 242, which emphasizes "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war", and calls on Israel to withdraw from occupied territories in return for normalization of relations with Arab states ("Land for peace").^{[313] [314] [315]} Israel has been criticized for engaging in systematic and widespread violations of human rights in the occupied territories, including the occupation itself^[316] and war crimes against civilians.^{[317] [318] [319] [320]} The allegations include violations of international humanitarian law^[321] by the UN Human Rights Council.^[322] The U.S. State Department has called reports of abuses of significant human rights of Palestinians "credible" both within Israel^[323] and the occupied territories.^[324] Amnesty International and other NGOs have documented mass arbitrary arrests, torture, unlawful killings, systemic abuses and impunity^{[325] [326] [327] [328]} in tandem with a denial of the right to Palestinian self-determination.^{[329] [330] [331] [332] [333]} Prime Minister Netanyahu has defended the country's security forces for protecting the innocent from terrorists^[334] and expressed contempt for what he describes as a lack of concern about the human rights violations committed by "criminal killers".^[335]

The international community widely regards Israeli settlements in the occupied territories illegal under international law.^[336] United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 (passed 2016) states that Israel's settlement activity constitutes a "flagrant violation" of international law and demands that Israel stop such activity and fulfill its obligations as an occupying power under the Fourth Geneva Convention.^[337] A United Nations special rapporteur concluded that the settlement program was a war crime under the Rome Statute,^[338] and Amnesty International found that the settlement program constitutes an illegal transfer of civilians into occupied territory and "pillage", which is prohibited by the Hague Conventions and Geneva Conventions as well as being a war crime under the Rome Statute.^[339]

In a 2024 advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice stated that Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories violated international law; Israel should end its occupation as quickly as possible and pay reparations. The court also advised that other states were under an obligation not to recognise the occupation as lawful nor to aid or assist it. In addition, the court found that Israel was in breach of article 3 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which requires states to prevent, prohibit and eradicate all practices of racial segregation and apartheid.^{[340] [341] [342]}

Apartheid accusations

See main article: Israeli apartheid. Israel's treatment of the Palestinians within the occupied territories have drawn widespread accusations that it is guilty of apartheid, a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute and the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid.^{[343] [344]} The Washington Posts 2021 survey of scholars and academic experts on the Middle East found an increase from 59% to 65% of these scholars describing Israel as a "one-state reality akin to apartheid".^{[345] [346]} The claim that Israel's policies for Palestinians within Israel amount to apartheid has been affirmed by Israeli human rights organization B'tselem and international human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.^{[344] [347]} Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din has also accused Israel of apartheid.^[347] Amnesty's claim was criticised by politicians and representatives from Israel and its closest allies such as, the US,^[348] the UK,^[349] the European Commission,^[350] Australia,^[351] Netherlands^[352] and Germany,^[353] while said accusations were welcomed by Palestinians,^[354] representatives from other states, and organizations such as the Arab League.^[355] In 2022, Michael Lynk, a Canadian law professor appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council said that the situation met the legal definition of apartheid, and concluded: "Israel has imposed upon Palestine an apartheid reality in a post-apartheid world".^{[356] [357]} Subsequent reports from his successor, Francesca Albanese and from Permanent United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Israel Palestine conflict chair Navi Pillay echoed the opinion.^{[358] [359]}

In February 2024, The ICJ held public hearings in regards to the legal consequences arising from the policies and practices of Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory including East Jerusalem. During the hearings, 24 States and three international organizations said that Israeli practices amount to a breach of the prohibition of apartheid and/or amount to prohibited acts of racial discrimination.^[360]

Foreign relations

See main article: Foreign relations of Israel and International recognition of Israel. Israel maintains diplomatic relations, as well as with the Holy See, Kosovo, the Cook Islands and Niue. It has 107 diplomatic missions;^[361] countries with which it has no diplomatic relations include most Muslim countries.^[362] Six out of twenty-two nations in the Arab League have normalized relations with Israel. Israel remains formally in a state of war with Syria, a status that dates back uninterrupted to 1948. It has been in a similarly formal state of war with Lebanon since the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 2000, with the Israel–Lebanon border remaining unagreed by treaty.

Despite the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, Israel is still widely considered an enemy country among Egyptians.^[363] Iran withdrew its recognition of Israel during the Islamic Revolution. Israeli citizens may not visit Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen without permission from the Ministry of the Interior.^[364] As a result of the 2008–09 Gaza War, Mauritania, Qatar, Bolivia, and Venezuela suspended political and economic ties with Israel,^[365] though Bolivia renewed ties in 2019.^[366]

The United States and the Soviet Union were the first two countries to recognize the State of Israel, having declared recognition roughly simultaneously.^[367] Diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union were broken in 1967, following the Six-Day War, and renewed in October 1991.^[368] The United States regards Israel as its "most reliable partner in the Middle East",^[369] based on "common democratic values, religious affinities, and security interests".^[370] The US has provided $68 billion in military assistance and $32 billion in grants to Israel since 1967, under the Foreign Assistance Act (period beginning 1962),^[371] more than any other country for that period until 2003.^{[371] [372] [373]} Most surveyed Americans have also held consistently favorable views of Israel.^{[374] [375]} The United Kingdom is seen as having a "natural" relationship with Israel because of the Mandate for Palestine.^[376], Germany had paid 25 billion euros in reparations to the Israeli state and individual Israeli Holocaust survivors.^[377] Israel is included in the European Union's European Neighbourhood Policy.^[378]

Although Turkey and Israel did not establish full diplomatic relations until 1991,^[379] Turkey has cooperated with the Jewish state since its recognition of Israel in 1949. Turkey's ties to other Muslim-majority nations in the region have at times resulted in pressure from Arab and Muslim states to temper its relationship with Israel. Relations between Turkey and Israel took a downturn after the 2008–09 Gaza War and Israel's raid of the Gaza flotilla.^[380] Relations between Greece and Israel have improved since 1995 due to the decline of Israeli–Turkish relations.^[381] The two countries have a defense cooperation agreement and in 2010, the Israeli Air Force hosted Greece's Hellenic Air Force in a joint exercise. The joint Cyprus-Israel oil and gas explorations centered on the Leviathan gas field are an important factor for Greece, given its strong links with Cyprus.^[382] Cooperation in the world's longest submarine power cable, the EuroAsia Interconnector, has strengthened Cyprus–Israel relations.^[383]

Azerbaijan is one of the few majority Muslim countries to develop strategic and economic relations with Israel.^[384] Kazakhstan also has an economic and strategic partnership with Israel.^[385] India established full diplomatic ties with Israel in 1992 and has fostered a strong military, technological and cultural partnership with the country since then.^[386] India is the largest customer of the Israeli military equipment and Israel is the second-largest military partner of India after Russia.^[387] Ethiopia is Israel's main ally in Africa due to common political, religious and security interests.^[388]

Foreign aid

Israel has a history of providing emergency foreign aid and humanitarian response to disasters across the world.^[389] In 1955 Israel began its foreign aid programme in Burma. The programme's focus subsequently shifted to Africa.^[390] Israel's humanitarian efforts officially began in 1957, with the establishment of Mashav, the Israel's Agency for International Development Cooperation.^[391] In this early period, whilst Israel's aid represented only a small percentage of total aid to Africa, its programme was effective in creating goodwill; however, following the 1967 war relations soured.^[392] Israel's foreign aid programme subsequently shifted its focus to Latin America.^[390] Since the late 1970s Israel's foreign aid has gradually decreased, although in recent years Israel has tried to reestablish aid to Africa.^[393] There are additional Israeli humanitarian and emergency response groups that work with the Israel government, including IsraAid, a joint programme run by Israeli organizations and North American Jewish groups,^[394] ZAKA,^[395] The Fast Israeli Rescue and Search Team,^[396] Israeli Flying Aid,^[397] Save a Child's Heart^[398] and Latet.^[399] Between 1985 and 2015, Israel sent 24 delegations of IDF search and rescue unit, the Home Front Command, to 22 countries.^[400] Currently Israeli foreign aid ranks low among OECD nations, spending less than 0.1% of its GNI on development assistance.^[401] The country ranked 38th in the 2018 World Giving Index.^[402]

Military

See main article: Israeli security forces.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is the sole military wing of the Israeli security forces and is headed by its Chief of General Staff, the Ramatkal, subordinate to the Cabinet. The IDF consists of the army, air force and navy. It was founded during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War by consolidating paramilitary organizations—chiefly the Haganah.^[403] The IDF also draws upon the resources of the Military Intelligence Directorate (Aman). The IDF have been involved in several major wars and border conflicts, making it one of the most battle-trained armed forces in the world.^[404]

Most Israelis are conscripted at age 18. Men serve two years and eight months and women two years.^[405] Following mandatory service, Israeli men join the reserve forces and usually do up to several weeks of reserve duty every year until their forties. Most women are exempt from reserve duty. Arab citizens of Israel (except the Druze) and those engaged in full-time religious studies are exempt, although the exemption of yeshiva students has been a source of contention.^[406] An alternative for those who receive exemptions on various grounds is Sherut Leumi, or national service, which involves a programme of service in social welfare frameworks.^[407] A small minority of Israeli Arabs also volunteer in the army.^[408] As a result of its conscription programme, the IDF maintains approximately 176,500 active troops and 465,000 reservists, giving Israel one of the world's highest percentage of citizens with military training.^[409]

The military relies heavily on high-tech weapons systems designed and manufactured in Israel as well as some foreign imports. The Arrow missile is one of the world's few operational anti-ballistic missile systems.^[410] The Python air-to-air missile series is often considered one of the most crucial weapons in its military history.^[411] Israel's Spike missile is one of the most widely exported anti-tank guided missiles in the world.^[412] Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile air defense system gained worldwide acclaim after intercepting hundreds of rockets fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip.^{[413] [414]} Since the Yom Kippur War, Israel has developed a network of reconnaissance satellites.^[415] The Ofeq programme has made Israel one of seven countries capable of launching such satellites.^[416]

Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons^[417] and per a 1993 report, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction.^[418] Israel has not signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons^[419] and maintains a policy of deliberate ambiguity toward its nuclear capabilities.^[420] The Israeli Navy's Dolphin submarines are believed to be armed with nuclear missiles offering second-strike capability.^[421] Since the Gulf War in 1991, all homes in Israel are required to have a reinforced security room, Merkhav Mugan, impermeable to chemical and biological substances.^[422]

Since Israel's establishment, military expenditure constituted a significant portion of the country's gross domestic product, with peak of 30.3% of GDP in 1975.^[423] In 2021, Israel ranked 15th in the world by total military expenditure, with $24.3 billion, and 6th by defense spending as a percentage of GDP, with 5.2%.^[424] Since 1974, the United States has been a particularly notable contributor of military aid.^[425] Under a memorandum of understanding signed in 2016, the U.S. is expected to provide the country with $3.8 billion per year, or around 20% of Israel's defense budget, from 2018 to 2028.^[426] Israel ranked 9th globally for arms exports in 2022.^[427] The majority of Israel's arms exports are unreported for security reasons.^[428] Israel is consistently rated low in the Global Peace Index, ranking 134th out of 163 nations in 2022.^[429]

Legal system

See main article: Judiciary of Israel and Israeli law. Israel has a three-tier court system. At the lowest level are magistrate courts, situated in most cities across the country. Above them are district courts, serving as both appellate courts and courts of first instance; they are situated in five of Israel's six districts. The third and highest tier is the Supreme Court, located in Jerusalem; it serves a dual role as the highest court of appeals and the High Court of Justice. In the latter role, the Supreme Court rules as a court of first instance, allowing individuals, both citizens and non-citizens, to petition against the decisions of state authorities.^[430]

Israel's legal system combines three legal traditions: English common law, civil law, and Jewish law.^[250] It is based on the principle of stare decisis (precedent) and is an adversarial system. Court cases are decided by professional judges with no role for juries.^[431] Marriage and divorce are under the jurisdiction of the religious courts: Jewish, Muslim, Druze, and Christian. The election of judges is carried out by a selection committee chaired by the justice minister (currently Yariv Levin).^[432] Israel's seeks to defend human rights and liberties in Israel. The United Nations Human Rights Council and Israeli human rights organization Adalah have highlighted that this law does not in fact contain a general provision for equality and non-discrimination.^[433] As a result of "Enclave law", large portions of Israeli civil law are applied to Israeli settlements and Israeli residents in the occupied territories.^[434]

Economy

See main article: Economy of Israel. Israel is considered the most advanced country in Western Asia and the Middle East in economic and industrial development.^{[435] [436]}, the IMF estimated Israel's GDP at 521.7 billion dollars and Israel's GDP per capita at 53.2 thousand (ranking 13th worldwide).^[437] It is the third richest country in Asia by nominal per capita income.^[438] Israel has the highest average wealth per adult in the Middle East.^[439] The Economist ranked Israel as the 4th most successful economy among the developed countries for 2022.^[440] It has the most billionaires in the Middle East, and the 18th most in the world.^[441] In recent years Israel had one of the highest growth rates in the developed world.^[442] In 2010, it joined the OECD.^{[28] [443]} The country is ranked 20th in the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report^[444] and 35th on the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business index.^[445] Israel was also ranked 5th in the world by share of people in high-skilled employment.^[446] Israeli economic data covers the economic territory of Israel, including the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Despite limited natural resources, intensive development of the agricultural and industrial sectors over the past decades has made Israel largely self-sufficient in food production, apart from grains and beef. Imports to Israel, totaling $96.5 billion in 2020, include raw materials, military equipment, investment goods, rough diamonds, fuels, grain, and consumer goods.^[250] Leading exports include machinery, equipment, software, cut diamonds, agricultural products, chemicals, textiles, and apparel; in 2020, Israeli exports reached $114 billion.^[250] The Bank of Israel holds $201 billion of foreign-exchange reserves, the 17th highest in the world.^[250] Since the 1970s, Israel has received military aid from the United States, as well as economic assistance in the form of loan guarantees, which account for roughly half of Israel's external debt. Israel has one of the lowest external debts in the developed world, and is a lender in terms of net external debt (assets vs. liabilities abroad), which stood at a surplus of $69 billion.^[447]

Israel has the second-largest number of startup companies after the United States,^[448] and the third-largest number of NASDAQ-listed companies.^[449] It is the world leader for number of start-ups per capita.^[450] Israel has been dubbed the "Start-Up Nation".^{[451] [452] [453] [454]} Intel^[455] and Microsoft^[456] built their first overseas research and development facilities in Israel, and other high-tech multinational corporations have opened research and development centres in the country.

The days which are allocated to working times in Israel are Sunday through Thursday (for a five-day workweek), or Friday (for a six-day workweek). In observance of Shabbat, in places where Friday is a work day and the majority of population is Jewish, Friday is a "short day". Several proposals have been raised to adjust the work week with the majority of the world.^[457]

Science and technology

See main article: List of Israeli inventions and discoveries.

Israel's development of cutting-edge technologies in software, communications and the life sciences have evoked comparisons with Silicon Valley.^{[458] [459]} Israel is first in the world in expenditure on research and development as a percentage of GDP.^[460] It is ranked 14th in the Global Innovation Index in 2023,^[461] and fifth in the 2019 Bloomberg Innovation Index.^[462] Israel has 140 scientists, technicians, and engineers per 10,000 employees, the highest number in the world.^{[463] [464] [465]} Israel has produced six Nobel Prize-winning scientists since 2004^[466] and has been frequently ranked as one of the countries with the highest ratios of scientific papers per capita.^{[467] [468] [469]} Israeli universities are ranked among the top 50 world universities in computer science (Technion and Tel Aviv University), mathematics (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and chemistry (Weizmann Institute of Science).

In 2012, Israel was ranked ninth in the world by the Futron's Space Competitiveness Index.^[470] The Israel Space Agency coordinates all Israeli space research programmes with scientific and commercial goals, and have designed and built at least 13 commercial, research and spy satellites.^[471] Some of Israel's satellites are ranked among the world's most advanced space systems.^[472] Shavit is a space launch vehicle produced by Israel to launch small satellites into low Earth orbit.^[473] It was first launched in 1988, making Israel the eighth nation to have a space launch capability. In 2003, Ilan Ramon became Israel's first astronaut, serving on the fatal mission of Space Shuttle Columbia.^[474]

The ongoing water shortage has spurred innovation in water conservation techniques, and a substantial agricultural modernization, drip irrigation, was invented in Israel. Israel is also at the technological forefront of desalination and water recycling. The Sorek desalination plant is the largest seawater reverse osmosis desalination facility in the world.^[475] By 2014, Israel's desalination programmes provided roughly 35% of Israel's drinking water and it is expected to supply 70% by 2050.^[476], over 50 percent of the water for Israeli households, agriculture and industry is artificially produced.^[477] In 2011, Israel's water technology industry was worth around $2 billion a year with annual exports of products and services in the tens of millions of dollars. As a result of innovations in reverse osmosis technology, Israel is set to become a net exporter of water.^[478]

Israel has embraced solar energy; its engineers are on the cutting edge of solar energy technology^[479] and its solar companies work on projects around the world.^{[480] [481]} Over 90% of Israeli homes use solar energy for hot water, the highest per capita.^{[482] [483]} According to government figures, the country saves 8% of its electricity consumption per year because of its solar energy use in heating.^[484] The high annual incident solar irradiance at its geographic latitude creates ideal conditions for what is an internationally renowned solar research and development industry in the Negev Desert.^{[479] [480] [481]} Israel had a modern electric car infrastructure involving a countrywide network of charging stations.^{[485] [486] [487]} However, Israel's electric car company Better Place shut down in 2013.^[488]

Energy

See main article: Energy in Israel. Israel began producing natural gas from its own offshore gas fields in 2004. In 2009, a natural gas reserve, Tamar, was found near the coast of Israel. A second reserve, Leviathan, was discovered in 2010.^[489] The natural gas reserves in these two fields could make Israel energy-secure for more than 50 years. In 2013, Israel began commercial production of natural gas from the Tamar field., Israel produced over 7.5 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas a year.^[490] Israel had 199 billion bcm of proven reserves of natural gas as of 2016.^[491] The Leviathan gas field started production in 2019.^[492]

Ketura Sun is Israel's first commercial solar field. Built in 2011 by the Arava Power Company, the field consists of 18,500 photovoltaic panels made by Suntech, which will produce about 9 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity per year.^[493] In the next twenty years, the field will spare the production of some 125,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide.^[494]

Transport

See main article: Transport in Israel. Israel has 19224km (11,945miles) of paved roads^[495] and 3 million motor vehicles.^[496] The number of motor vehicles per 1,000 persons is 365, relatively low among developed countries.^[496] The country aims to have 30% of vehicles on its roads powered by electricity by 2030.^[497]

Israel has 5,715 buses on scheduled routes,^[498] operated by several carriers, the largest and oldest of which is Egged, serving most of the country.^[499] Railways stretch across 1277km (793miles) and are operated by government-owned Israel Railways.^[500] Following major investments beginning in the early to mid-1990s, the number of train passengers per year has grown from 2.5 million in 1990, to 53 million in 2015; railways transport 7.5 million tons of cargo per year.

Israel is served by three international airports: Ben Gurion Airport, the country's main hub for international air travel; Ramon Airport; and Haifa Airport. Ben Gurion, Israel's largest airport, handled over 21.1 million passengers in 2023.^[501] The country has three main ports: the Port of Haifa, the country's oldest and largest, on the Mediterranean coast, Ashdod Port; and the smaller Port of Eilat on the Red Sea.

Tourism

See main article: Tourism in Israel.

See also: List of archaeological sites in Israel and Palestine. Tourism, especially religious tourism, is an important industry in Israel, with the country's beaches, archaeological, other historical and biblical sites, and unique geography also drawing tourists. Israel's security problems have taken their toll on the industry, but the number of tourists is on the rebound.^[502] In 2017, a record 3.6 million tourists visited Israel, yielding a 25 percent growth since 2016 and contributed NIS 20 billion to the Israeli economy.^{[503] [504] [505] [506]}

Real estate

See main article: Housing in Israel. Housing prices in Israel are listed in the top third of all countries,^[507] with an average of 150 salaries required to buy an apartment.^[508] As of 2022, there are about 2.7 million properties in Israel, with an annual increase of over 50,000.^[509] However, the demand for housing exceeds supply, with a shortage of about 200,000 apartments as of 2021.^[510] As a result, by 2021 housing prices rose by 5.6%.^[511] In 2021, Israelis took a record of NIS 116.1 billion in mortgages, an increase of 50% from 2020.^[512]

Demographics

See main article: Demographics of Israel and Israelis.

Israel has the largest Jewish population in the world and is the only country where Jews are the majority.^[513], Israel's population was an estimated . In 2022, the government recorded 73.6% of the population as Jews, 21.1% as Arabs, and 5.3% as "Others" (non-Arab Christians and people who have no religion listed).^[514] Over the last decade, large numbers of migrant workers from Romania, Thailand, China, Africa, and South America have settled in Israel. Exact figures are unknown, as many of them are living in the country illegally,^[515] but estimates run from 166,000 to 203,000.^[516] By June 2012, approximately 60,000 African migrants had entered Israel.^[517] About 93% of Israelis live in urban areas.^[518] 90% of Palestinian Israelis reside in 139 densely populated towns and villages concentrated in the Galilee, Triangle and Negev regions, with the remaining 10% in mixed cities and neighbourhoods.^{[519] [520] [521] [522] [523]} The OECD in 2016 estimated the average life expectancy at 82.5 years, the 6th-highest in the world.^[524] Israeli Arab life expectancy lags by 3 to 4 years^{[525] [526]} and is higher than in most Arab and Muslim countries.^{[527] [528]} The country has the highest fertility rate in the OECD and the only one which is above the replacement figure of 2.1. Retention of Israel's population since 1948 is about even or greater, when compared to other countries with mass immigration.^[529] Jewish emigration from Israel (called yerida), primarily to the United States and Canada, is described by demographers as modest,^[530] but is often cited by Israeli government ministries as a major threat to Israel's future.^{[531] [532]}

Approximately 80% of Israeli Jews are born in Israel, 14% are immigrants from Europe and the Americas, and 6% are immigrants from Asia and Africa.^[533] Jews from Europe and the former Soviet Union and their descendants born in Israel, including Ashkenazi Jews, constitute approximately 44% of Jewish Israelis. Jews from Arab and Muslim countries and their descendants, including both Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews,^[534] form most of the rest of the Jewish population.^{[535] [536]} Jewish intermarriage rates run at over 35% and recent studies suggest that the percentage of Israelis descended from both Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews increases by 0.5 percent yearly, with over 25% of schoolchildren now originating from both.^[537] Around 4% of Israelis (300,000), ethnically defined as "others", are Russian descendants of Jewish origin or family who are not Jewish according to rabbinical law, but were eligible for citizenship under the Law of Return.^{[538] [539] [540]}

The total number of Israeli settlers beyond the Green Line is over 600,000 (≈10% of the Jewish Israeli population).^[541], 399,300 Israelis lived in West Bank settlements,^[287] including those that predated the establishment of the State of Israel and which were re-established after the Six-Day War, in cities such as Hebron and Gush Etzion bloc. Additionally there were more than 200,000 Jews living in East Jerusalem,^[288] and 22,000 in the Golan Heights.^[287] Approximately 7,800 Israelis lived in settlements in the Gaza Strip, known as Gush Katif, until they were evacuated by the government as part of its 2005 disengagement plan.^[542]

Israeli Arabs (including the Arab population of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights) comprise 21.1% of the population or 1,995,000 people.^[543] In a 2017 poll, 40% of Arab citizens of Israel identified as "Arab in Israel" or "Arab citizen of Israel", 15% identified as "Palestinian", 8.9% as "Palestinian in Israel" or "Palestinian citizen of Israel", and 8.7% as "Arab"; a poll found that 60% of Israeli Arabs have a positive view of the state.^{[544] [545]}

Major urban areas

See main article: List of cities in Israel.

Israel has four major metropolitan areas: Gush Dan (Tel Aviv metropolitan area; population 3,854,000), Jerusalem (population 1,253,900), Haifa (924,400), and Beersheba (377,100).^[546]

Israel's largest municipality, in population and area, is Jerusalem with residents in an area of 125km2. Israeli government statistics on Jerusalem include the population and area of East Jerusalem, the status of which is in international dispute.^[547] Tel Aviv and Haifa rank as Israel's next most populous cities, with populations of and, respectively.The (mainly Haredi) city of Bnei Brak is the most densely populated city in Israel and one of the 10 most densely populated cities in the world.^[548]

Israel has 16 cities with populations over 100,000. there are 77 Israeli localities granted "municipalities" (or "city") status by the Ministry of the Interior,^[549] four of which are in the West Bank.^[550]

Language

See main article: Languages of Israel. Israel's official language is Hebrew. Hebrew is the primary language of the state and is spoken daily by the majority of the population. Prior to 1948, opposition to Yiddish, the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews, was common among supporters of the Zionist movement, including the Yishuv, who sought to promote Hebrew's revival as a unifying national language.^[551] These sentiments were reflected in the early policies of the Israeli government, which largely banned Yiddish theatre performances and publications.^[552] Until 2018, Arabic was also an official language of Israel; in 2018 it was downgraded to having a "special status in the state". Arabic is spoken by the Arab minority, with Hebrew taught in Arab schools.

Due to mass immigration from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia (some 130,000 Ethiopian Jews live in Israel),^{[553] [554]} Russian and Amharic are widely spoken.^[555] Over one million Russian-speaking immigrants arrived in Israel between 1990 and 2004.^[556] French is spoken by around 700,000 Israelis,^[557] mostly originating from France and North Africa (see Maghrebi Jews). English was an official language during the Mandate period; it lost this status after the establishment of Israel, but retains a role comparable to that of an official language.^{[558] [559] [560]} Many Israelis communicate reasonably well in English, as many television programmes are broadcast in English with subtitles and the language is taught from the early grades in elementary school. Israeli universities offer courses in the English language on various subjects.^[561]

Religion

See main article: Religion in Israel.

See also: Abrahamic religions. The religious affiliation of the Israeli population as of 2022 was 73.6% Jewish, 18.1% Muslim, 1.9% Christian, and 1.6% Druze. The remaining 4.8% included faiths such as Samaritanism and Baháʼí, as well as "religiously unclassified".^[562]

The religious affiliation of Israeli Jews varies widely: a 2016 survey by Pew Research indicates that 49% self-identify as Hiloni (secular), 29% as Masorti (traditional), 13% as Dati (religious) and 9% as Haredi (ultra-Orthodox).^[563] Haredi Jews are expected to represent over 20% of Israel's Jewish population by 2028.^[564]

Muslims constitute Israel's largest religious minority, making up about 17.6% of the population. About 2% of the population is Christian and 1.6% is Druze.^[250] The Christian population comprises primarily Arab Christians and Aramean Christians, but also includes post-Soviet immigrants, foreign laborers, and followers of Messianic Judaism, considered by most Christians and Jews to be a form of Christianity.^[565] Members of many other religious groups, including Buddhists and Hindus, maintain a presence in Israel, albeit in small numbers.^[566] Out of over one million immigrants from the former Soviet Union, about 300,000 are considered not Jewish by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.^[567]

Israel comprises a major part of the Holy Land, a region of significant importance to all Abrahamic religions. The city of Jerusalem is of special importance to Jews, Muslims, and Christians, as it is the home of sites that are pivotal to their religious beliefs, such as the Old City that incorporates the Western Wall and the Temple Mount (Al-Aqsa Mosque compound) and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.^[568] Other locations of religious importance are Nazareth (site of the Annunciation of Mary), Tiberias and Safed (two of the Four Holy Cities in Judaism), the White Mosque in Ramla (shrine of the prophet Saleh), and the Church of Saint George and Mosque of Al-Khadr, Lod (tomb of Saint George or Al Khidr). A number of other religious landmarks are located in the West Bank, including Joseph's Tomb, the birthplace of Jesus, Rachel's Tomb, and the Cave of the Patriarchs. The administrative center of the Baháʼí Faith and the Shrine of the Báb are located at the Baháʼí World Centre in Haifa; the leader of the faith is buried in Acre.^{[569] [570] [571]} The Mahmood Mosque is affiliated with the reformist Ahmadiyya movement. Kababir, Haifa's mixed neighbourhood of Jews and Ahmadi Arabs, is one of a few of its kind in the country.^{[572] [573]}

Education

See main article: Education in Israel. Education is highly valued in the Israeli culture and was viewed as a fundamental block of ancient Israelites.^[574] In 2015, the country ranked third among OECD members for the percentage of 25–64 year-olds that have attained tertiary education with 49% compared with the OECD average of 35%.^[575] In 2012, the country ranked third in the number of academic degrees per capita (20 percent of the population).^[576]

Israel has a school life expectancy of 16 years and a literacy rate of 97.8%.^[250] The State Education Law (1953) established five types of schools: state secular, state religious, ultra orthodox, communal settlement schools, and Arab schools. The public secular is the largest school group, and is attended by the majority of Jewish and non-Arab pupils. Most Arabs send their children to schools where Arabic is the language of instruction.^[577] Education is compulsory for children between the ages of three and eighteen.^[578] Schooling is divided into three tiers—primary school (grades 1–6), middle school (grades 7–9), and high school (grades 10–12)—culminating with Bagrut matriculation exams. Proficiency in core subjects such as mathematics, the Hebrew language, Hebrew and general literature, the English language, history, Biblical scripture and civics is necessary to receive a Bagrut certificate.^[579]

Israel's Jewish population maintains a relatively high level of educational attainment where just under half of all Israeli Jews (46%) hold post-secondary degrees.^{[580] [581]} Israeli Jews (among those ages 25 and older) have average of 11.6 years of schooling making them one of the most highly educated of all major religious groups in the world.^{[582] [583]} In Arab, Christian and Druze schools, the exam on Biblical studies is replaced by an exam on Muslim, Christian or Druze heritage.^[584] In 2020, 68.7% of all Israeli twelfth graders earned a matriculation certificate.^[585]

Israel has a tradition of higher education where its quality university education has been largely responsible in spurring the nation's modern economic development.^[586] Israel has nine public universities subsidized by the state and 49 private colleges.^{[579] [587] [588]} The Hebrew University of Jerusalem houses the National Library of Israel, the world's largest repository of Judaica and Hebraica.^[589] The Technion and the Hebrew University consistently ranked among world's 100 top universities by ARWU ranking.^[590] Other major universities include the Weizmann Institute of Science, Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Bar-Ilan University, the University of Haifa, and the Open University of Israel.

Culture

See main article: Culture of Israel. Israel's cultural diversity stems from its diverse population: Jews from various diaspora communities brought their cultural and religious traditions with them.^[591] Arab influences are present in many cultural spheres,^[592] being found in Israeli architecture,^[593] music,^[594] and cuisine.^[595] Israel is the only country where life revolves around the Hebrew calendar. Holidays are determined by the Jewish holidays. The official day of rest is Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath.^[596]

Literature

See main article: Israeli literature. Israeli literature is primarily poetry and prose written in Hebrew, as part of the renaissance of Hebrew as a spoken language since the mid-19th century, although a small body of literature is published in other languages. By law, two copies of all printed matter published in Israel must be deposited in the National Library of Israel. In 2001, the law was amended to include audio and video recordings, and other non-print media.^[597] In 2016, 89 percent of the 7,300 books transferred to the library were in Hebrew.^[598]

In 1966, Shmuel Yosef Agnon shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with German Jewish author Nelly Sachs.^[599] Leading Israeli poets include Yehuda Amichai, Nathan Alterman, Leah Goldberg, and Rachel Bluwstein.^[600] Internationally famous contemporary Israeli novelists include Amos Oz, Etgar Keret and David Grossman.^{[601] [602]}

Music and dance

See main article: Dance in Israel. Israeli music includes Mizrahi and Sephardic music, Hasidic melodies, Greek music, jazz, and pop rock.^[603] The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra^[604] has been in operation for over seventy years and performs more than two hundred concerts each year.^[605] Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman and Ofra Haza are among the internationally acclaimed musicians born in Israel. Israel has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest nearly every year since 1973, winning the competition four times and hosting it twice.^{[606] [607]} Eilat has hosted its own international music festival, the Red Sea Jazz Festival, every summer since 1987.^[608] The nation's canonical folk songs are known as "Songs of the Land of Israel".^[609]

Cinema and theatre

See main article: Cinema of Israel.

Ten Israeli films have been final nominees for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. Palestinian Israeli filmmakers have made films dealing with the Arab-Israeli conflict and status of Palestinians within Israel, such as Mohammed Bakri's 2002 film Jenin, Jenin and The Syrian Bride.

Continuing the strong theatrical traditions of the Yiddish theatre in Eastern Europe, Israel maintains a vibrant theatre scene. Founded in 1918, Habima Theatre in Tel Aviv is Israel's oldest repertory theater company and national theater.^[610] Other theatres include Ohel, the Cameri and Gesher.^{[611] [612]}

Arts

See main article: Visual arts in Israel. Israeli Jewish art has been particularly influenced by the Kabbalah, the Talmud and the Zohar. Another art movement that held a prominent role in the 20th century was the School of Paris. In the late 19th and early 20th century, the Yishuv's art was dominated by art trends emanating Bezalel. Beginning in the 1920s, the local art scene was heavily influenced by modern French art, first introduced by Isaac Frenkel Frenel.^{[613] [614]} Jewish masters of the school of Paris, such as Soutine, Kikoine, Frenkel, Chagall heavily influenced the subsequent development of Israeli art.^{[615] [616]} Israeli sculpture took inspiration from modern European sculpture as well Mesopotamian, Assyrian and local art.^{[617] [618]} Avraham Melnikov's roaring lion, David Polus' Alexander Zaid and Ze'ev Ben Zvi's cubist sculpture exemplify some of the different streams in Israeli sculpture.^{[619] [620]}

Common themes in Israeli art are the mystical cities of Safed and Jerusalem, the bohemian café culture of Tel Aviv, agricultural landscapes, biblical stories and war. Today Israeli art has delved into Optical art, AI art, digital art and the use of salt in sculpture.

Architecture

See main article: Architecture of Israel. Due to the immigration of Jewish architects, architecture in Israel has come to reflect different styles. In the early 20th century Jewish architects sought to combine Occidental and Oriental architecture producing buildings that showcase a myriad of infused styles.^[621] The eclectic style gave way to the modernist Bauhaus style with the influx of German Jewish architects (among them Erich Mendelsohn) fleeing Nazi persecution.^{[622] [623]} The White City of Tel Aviv is a UNESCO heritage site.^[624] Following independence, multiple government projects were commissioned, a grand part built in a brutalist style with heavy emphasis on the use of concrete and acclimatization to the Israel's desert climate.^{[625] [626]}

Several novel ideas such as the Garden City were implemented Israeli cities; the Geddes plan of Tel Aviv became renowned internationally for its revolutionary design and adaptation to the local climate.^[627] The design of kibbutzim also came to reflect ideology, such as the planning of the circular kibbutz Nahalal by Richard Kauffmann.^[628]

Media

See main article: Media of Israel. Israeli media is diverse, reflecting the spectrum of Israeli audiences. Notable newspapers include the leftwing Haaretz,^[629] centrist Yedioth Ahronoth,^[630] and center-right Israel Hayom.^[631] There are several major TV channels which cater to different audiences, from Russian language Channel 9^[632] to Arabic language Kan 33.^[633] The 2024 Freedom House report found Israeli media is "vibrant and free to criticize government policy".^[634] In the 2024 Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders, Israel was placed 101st of 180 countries, second in the Middle East and North Africa.^{[635] [636]} Reporters Without Borders noted that the Israel Defense Forces had killed more than 100 journalists in Gaza. Since the Israel–Hamas war, Israel had been "been trying to suppress the reporting coming out of the besieged enclave while disinformation infiltrates its own media ecosystem." On 5 May 2024, Israel shut down the local offices of Qatari channel Al Jazeera.^[637] Israel later briefly seized equipment belonging to the Associated Press, saying that its video stream of Gaza was being provided to Al Jazeera; after an intervention by the U.S. government the equipment was returned.^{[638] [639] [640]}

Museums

See main article: List of Israeli museums. The Israel Museum in Jerusalem is one of Israel's most important cultural institutions^[641] and houses the Dead Sea Scrolls,^[642] along with an extensive collection of Judaica and European art.^[641] Israel's national Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem, is the world central archive of Holocaust-related information.^[643] ANU - Museum of the Jewish People on the campus of Tel Aviv University, is an interactive museum devoted to the history of Jewish communities around the world.^[644]

Israel has the highest number of museums per capita.^[645] Several Israeli museums are devoted to Islamic culture, including the Rockefeller Museum and the L. A. Mayer Institute for Islamic Art, both in Jerusalem. The Rockefeller specializes in archaeological remains from Middle East history. It is also the home of the first hominid fossil skull found in Western Asia, called Galilee Man.^[646]

Cuisine

See main article: Israeli cuisine. Israeli cuisine includes local dishes as well as Jewish cuisine brought to the country by immigrants. Particularly since the late 1970s, an Israeli fusion cuisine has developed. Israeli cuisine has adopted, and continues to adapt, elements of the Mizrahi, Sephardi, and Ashkenazi styles of cooking. It incorporates many foods traditionally eaten in the Levantine, Arab, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisines, such as falafel, hummus, shakshouka, couscous, and za'atar. Schnitzel, pizza, hamburgers, French fries, rice and salad are common in Israel.

Roughly half of the Israeli-Jewish population attests to keeping kosher at home.^[647] Kosher restaurants make up around a quarter of the total .^[648] Together with non-kosher fish, rabbits and ostriches, pork—often called "white meat" in Israel—is produced and consumed, though it is forbidden by both Judaism and Islam.^[649]

Sports

See main article: Sport in Israel. The most popular spectator sports in Israel are association football and basketball. The Israeli Premier League is the country's premier football league, and the Israeli Basketball Premier League is the premier basketball league.^[650] Maccabi Haifa, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Beitar Jerusalem are the largest football clubs. Maccabi Tel Aviv, Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Tel Aviv have competed in the UEFA Champions League and Hapoel Tel Aviv reached the UEFA Cup quarter-finals. Israel hosted and won the 1964 AFC Asian Cup; in 1970 the Israel national football team qualified for the FIFA World Cup, the only time it participated in the World Cup. The 1974 Asian Games, held in Tehran, were the last Asian Games in which Israel participated, plagued by Arab countries that refused to compete with Israel. Israel was excluded from the 1978 Asian Games and since then has not competed in Asian sport events.^[651] In 1994, UEFA agreed to admit Israel, and its football teams now compete in Europe. Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. has won the European championship in basketball six times.^[652]

Israel has won nine Olympic medals since its first win in 1992, including a gold medal in windsurfing at the 2004 Summer Olympics.^[653] Israel has won over 100 gold medals in the Paralympic Games and is ranked 20th in the all-time medal count. The 1968 Summer Paralympics were hosted by Israel.^[654] The Maccabiah Games, an Olympic-style event for Jewish and Israeli athletes, was inaugurated in the 1930s, and has been held every four years since then. Krav Maga, a martial art developed by Jewish ghetto defenders during the struggle against fascism in Europe, is used by the Israeli security forces and police.^[655]

Chess is a leading sport in Israel. There are many Israeli grandmasters and Israeli chess players have won a number of youth world championships.^[656] Israel stages an annual international championship and hosted the World Team Chess Championship in 2005.

See also

• Index of Israel-related articles
• Outline of Israel

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1. Web site: Constitution for Israel . December 9, 2023 . knesset.gov.il. . 4 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230804001041/https://knesset.gov.il/constitution/ConstIntro_eng.htm . live .
2. Web site: Israel's Religiously Divided Society . Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project . 8 March 2016 . 23 February 2020 .
3. Web site: Israel. 27 February 2023. Central Intelligence Agency. CIA.gov. 24 February 2023. 10 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210110072816/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/israel#geography. live.
4. Web site: Israel country profile . BBC News . 27 January 2021 . 24 February 2020 . 24 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210124133129/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-14628835 . live .
5. Web site: Surface water and surface water change . 11 October 2020 . OECD.Stat . OECD . 24 March 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210324133453/https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=SURFACE_WATER . live .
6. Web site: i24NEWS . 2024-05-09 . Israel nears 10 million population milestone in time for 76th Independence Day . 2024-05-09 . I24news . en . 9 May 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240509110232/https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/society/artc-israel-nears-10-million-population-milestone-in-time-for-76th-independence-day . live .
7. Web site: Geographic Areas - Nationwide . 2022 Population Census Data . . 31 July 2024.
8. Web site: World Economic Outlook Database, April 2024 Edition. (Israel) . . www.imf.org . 16 April 2024 . 16 April 2024 . 16 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240416192335/https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2024/April/weo-report?c=436,&s=NGDPD,PPPGDP,NGDPDPC,PPPPC,&sy=2022&ey=2029&ssm=0&scsm=1&scc=0&ssd=1&ssc=0&sic=0&sort=country&ds=.&br=1 . live .
9. Web site: Income inequality . OECD Data . OECD . 29 June 2020 . 30 June 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200630002540/https://data.oecd.org/chart/60V4 . live .
10. Human Development Report 2023-24 . 2024-03-13 . United Nations . en . 13 March 2024 . 18 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240318221638/https://hdr.undp.org/content/human-development-report-2023-24 . live .
11. Web site: 12 June 2022 . When will be the right time for Israel to define its borders? – analysis . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240125202149/https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-709240 . 25 January 2024 . 25 January 2024 . The Jerusalem Post JPost.com.
12. Akram, Susan M., Michael Dumper, Michael Lynk, and Iain Scobbie, eds. 2010. International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Rights-Based Approach to Middle East Peace. Routledge. p. 119: "UN General Assembly Resolution 181 recommended the creation of an international zone, or corpus separatum, in Jerusalem to be administered by the UN for a 10-year period, after which there would be a referendum to determine its future. This approach applies equally to West and East Jerusalem and is not affected by the occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967. To a large extent it is this approach that still guides the diplomatic behaviour of states and thus has greater force in international law."
13. Book: Gil, Moshe . A History of Palestine, 634-1099 . Cambridge University Press . 1992 . 978-0-521-59984-9 . 14 . 17 May 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240517102802/https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=M0wUKoMJeccC&oi=fnd&pg=PR13&dq=history+of+palestine+two+people&ots=CMV1-8kJav&sig=C1Eh2oIUdicDWgg_Clo6yJgumUQ#v=onepage&q=history%20of%20palestine%20two%20people&f=false . 17 May 2024 . live.
14. Book: . Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881–2001 . Knopf . 1999 . reprint . 9780679744757 . The fear of territorial displacement and dispossession was to be the chief motor of Arab antagonism to Zionism down to 1948 (and indeed after 1967 as well). . 22 March 2024 . 22 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240322131219/https://books.google.com/books?id=746mQgAACAAJ . live . Also quoted, among many, by Mark M. Ayyash (2019). Hermeneutics of Violence: A Four-Dimensional Conception. University of Toronto Press, p. 195, . Accessed 22 March 2024.
15. Fildis . Ayse . Nisanci . Ensar . British Colonial Policy "Divide and Rule": Fanning Arab Rivalry in Palestine . 2019 . International Journal of Islamic and Civilizational Studies . 6 . 1 . UTM Press . 10 May 2024 . 10 May 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240510121206/https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/78420814/ea601a07a2310f41e37ea266a47b38107202-libre.pdf?1641751843=&response-content-disposition=inline&%20filename=British_Colonial_Policy_Divide_and_Rule.pdf&Expires=1715344527&Signature=UEfPzsmbLIHNW7Sd0jLxe4OpYUu4sPt5cIaU2beASuCt0BXqpfOQmcXAcR9EAPzkenh~ohMRrZlUREfMTTfqEosnMw8oqlVa2Ap6HVteACMhsC0VpH~MUmjcYs8f8rQUrWjZTnMuKwhEtiRQ92Md~PThKvq6IbAds05mX-cJzPamGLZ7fpx8xA3ejpYDXiG1uYE7Ks550xBeDWLCCPkfuOUJXMTbmJAucKnXRZnDL78EuDeQx0CNpSWdujVlcd82klFyLverjL5AAJs5AH2eHNVpXzym0fPdbY2YJWz5sgMYZOC9oN09cDXB007r7qRj2nFSL3Zs13Un0i~~1~pwbg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA . live .
16. Web site: 2023-10-19 . Zionism Definition, History, Examples, & Facts . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20181225204632/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Zionism . 25 December 2018 . 2023-10-29 . britannica.com . en.
17. Meir-Glitzenstein . Esther . Fall 2018 . Turning Points in the Historiography of Jewish Immigration from Arab Countries to Israel . Israel Studies . Indiana University Press . 23 . 3 . 114–122 . 10.2979/israelstudies.23.3.15 . 10.2979/israelstudies.23.3.15 . 150208821 . The mass immigration from Arab countries began in mid-1949 and included three communities that relocated to Israel almost in their entirety: 31,000 Jews from Libya, 50,000 from Yemen, and 125,000 from Iraq. Additional immigrants arrived from Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Iran, India, and elsewhere. Within three years, the Jewish population of Israel doubled. The ethnic composition of the population shifted as well, as immigrants from Muslim counties and their offspring now comprised one third of the Jewish population—an unprecedented phenomenon in global immigration history. From 1952–60, Israel regulated and restricted immigration from Muslim countries with a selective immigration policy based on economic criteria, and sent these immigrants, most of whom were North African, to peripheral Israeli settlements. The selective immigration policy ended in 1961 when, following an agreement between Israel and Morocco, about 100,000 Jews immigrated to the State. From 1952–68 about 600,000 Jews arrived in Israel, three quarters of whom were from Arab countries and the remaining immigrants were largely from Eastern Europe. Today fewer than 30,000 remain in Muslim countries, mostly concentrated in Iran and Turkey..
18. Ghanim . Honaida . March 2009 . Poetics of Disaster: Nationalism, Gender, and Social Change Among Palestinian Poets in Israel After Nakba . . 22 . 23–39 [25–26] . 10.1007/s10767-009-9049-9 . 40608203 . 144148068 . 1 . 0891-4486 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211106040944/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40608203 . 6 November 2021 . live . Around 750,000–900,000 Palestinians were systematically expelled from their homes and lands and about 531 villages were deliberately destroyed..
19. Book: Cleveland . William L. . A History of the Modern Middle East . Bunton . Martin . 2016 . . 978-0-429-97513-4 . en . 270 . Not only was there no Palestinian Arab state, but the vast majority of the Arab population in the territory that became Israel-over 700,000 people-had become refugees. The Arab flight from Palestine began during he intercommunal war and was at first the normal reaction of a civilian population to nearby fighting-a temporary evacuation from the zone of combat with plans to return once hostilities ceased. However, during spring and early summer 1948, the flight of the Palestinian Arabs was transformed itno a permanent mass exodus ... Once the Arab flight had started, it was encouraged by the Haganah ... Haganah field officers interpreted Plan D as giving them authority to undertake the systematic expulsion of the Palestinian Arabs living within the area allocated to the Jewish state as well as those whose villages were situated just inside the territory awarded to the Arab state ... Throughout the remainder of 1948 and into 1949, there were incidents of forced expulsion of Arabs. As a result, by the time the last armistice agreement was concluded in 1949, there remained only 160,000 Arabs within the borders of Israel..
20. Beker . Avi . 2005 . The Forgotten Narrative: Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries . Jewish Political Studies Review . 17 . 3/4 . 3–19 . 25834637 . 0792-335X . 23 May 2024 . 9 January 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240109013108/https://www.jstor.org/stable/25834637 . live .
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22. Book: WIPO . Global Innovation Index 2023, 15th Edition . 2024-08-10 . www.wipo.int . 2022 . World Intellectual Property Organization . 10.34667/tind.46596 . 978-92-805-3432-0 . en.
23. Web site: Getzoff . Marc . 2023-12-01 . Most Technologically Advanced Countries In The World 2023 . 2024-08-06 . Global Finance Magazine . en-US.
24. Web site: The world richest countries according three metrics .
25. Web site: 2023-09-09 . 30 Wealthiest Countries by Per Capita Net Worth . 2024-07-15 . Yahoo Finance . en-US.
26. Web site: Getzoff . Marc . 2023-08-09 . Most Technologically Advanced Countries In The World 2023 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231108044803/https://gfmag.com/data/non-economic-data/most-advanced-countries-in-the-world/ . 8 November 2023 . 2023-11-08 . Global Finance Magazine . en-US.
27. Web site: 2022-12-04 . Top 15 Most Advanced Countries in the World . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230110012152/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/top-15-most-advanced-countries-041038286.html . 10 January 2023 . 2023-10-27 . Yahoo Finance . en-US.
28. Web site: Israel's accession to the OECD . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200516012445/http://www.oecd.org/israel/israelsaccessiontotheoecd.htm . 16 May 2020 . 12 August 2012 . oecd.org . OECD.
29. Web site: 2010-05-27 . Israel to join prestigious OECD economic club . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231123013723/https://www.france24.com/en/20100527-israel-join-prestigious-oecd-economic-club-netanyahu-sarkozy-paris . 23 November 2023 . 2023-11-23 . France 24 . en.
30. News: 21 June 2024 . Israel's birth rate remains highest in OECD by far, at 2.9 children per woman . Times of Israel.
31. Mandatory Palestine: What It Was and Why It Matters . Noah Rayman . . 29 September 2014 . 5 December 2015 . 18 May 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190518140257/http://time.com/3445003/mandatory-palestine/ . live .
32. News: . 7 December 1947 . 1 . Popular Opinion . https://web.archive.org/web/20120815030044/http://www.jpress.org.il/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_TAUEN&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=english-skin-custom&Path=PLS%2F1947%2F12%2F07&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00105&PageLabel=1 . 15 August 2012.
33. News: One Day that Shook the world . https://web.archive.org/web/20120112220409/http://info.jpost.com/1998/Supplements/Jubilee/2.html . 12 January 2012 . . 30 April 1998 . Elli Wohlgelernter .
34. On the Move . . 31 May 1948 . 6 August 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071016074447/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C798687-2%2C00.html . 16 October 2007.
35. News: Levine . Robert A. . See Israel as a Jewish Nation-State, More or Less Democratic . . 7 November 2000 . 19 January 2011 . 22 July 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160722032239/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/07/opinion/07iht-edlevine.t.html . live .
36. Encyclopedia: Geoffrey W. Bromiley . Israel . International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

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37. . "The Merneptah Stele ... is arguably the oldest evidence outside the Bible for the existence of Israel as early as the 13th century BCE."
38. Tchernov . Eitan . Eitan Tchernov . 1988 . The Age of 'Ubeidiya Formation (Jordan Valley, Israel) and the Earliest Hominids in the Levant . . 14 . 2 . 63–65 . 10.3406/paleo.1988.4455 .
39. News: Rincon . Paul . 14 October 2015 . Fossil teeth place humans in Asia '20,000 years early' . BBC News . 4 January 2017 . 17 August 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170817113912/http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34531861 . live .
40. Bar-Yosef . Ofer . Ofer Bar-Yosef . 7 December 1998 . The Natufian Culture in the Levant, Threshold to the Origins of Agriculture . . 6 . 5 . 159–177 . 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6505(1998)6:5<159::AID-EVAN4>3.0.CO;2-7 . 35814375 . 4 January 2017 . 16 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210716132937/http://www.columbia.edu/itc/anthropology/v1007/baryo.pdf . live .
41. Steiglitz . Robert . Migrations in the Ancient Near East . Anthropological Science . 1992 . 3 . 101 . 263 . 12 June 2020 . 26 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230326034549/https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ase1993/101/3/101_3_263/_pdf . live .
42. Web site: Canaanites . 2023-12-01 . obo . en . 3 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230403082451/https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780195393361/obo-9780195393361-0216.xml . live .
43. Braunstein . Susan L. . 2011 . The Meaning of Egyptian-Style Objects in the Late Bronze Cemeteries of Tell el-Farʿah (South) . Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research . 364 . 364 . 1–36 . 10.5615/bullamerschoorie.364.0001 . 10.5615/bullamerschoorie.364.0001 . 164054005.
44. Dever, William G. Beyond the Texts, Society of Biblical Literature Press, 2017, pp. 89–93
45. S. Richard, "Archaeological sources for the history of Palestine: The Early Bronze Age: The rise and collapse of urbanism", The Biblical Archaeologist (1987)
46. K.L. Noll, Canaan and Israel in Antiquity: A Textbook on History and Religion, A&C Black, 2012, rev.ed. pp. 137ff.
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48. Book: Lemche . Niels Peter . 1998 . [{{Google books|JIoY7PagAOAC|page=PA35|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} The Israelites in History and Tradition ]. Westminster John Knox Press . 35. 978-0-664-22727-2.
49. Book: Miller . James Maxwell . A History of Ancient Israel and Judah . Hayes . John Haralson . Westminster John Knox Press . 1986 . 978-0-664-21262-9.
50. Mark Smith in "The Early History of God: Yahweh and Other Deities of Ancient Israel" states "Despite the long regnant model that the Canaanites and Israelites were people of fundamentally different culture, archaeological data now casts doubt on this view. The material culture of the region exhibits numerous common points between Israelites and Canaanites in the Iron I period (c. 1200–1000 BCE). The record would suggest that the Israelite culture largely overlapped with and derived from Canaanite culture... In short, Israelite culture was largely Canaanite in nature. Given the information available, one cannot maintain a radical cultural separation between Canaanites and Israelites for the Iron I period." (pp. 6–7). Smith, Mark (2002) "The Early History of God: Yahweh and Other Deities of Ancient Israel" (Eerdman's)
51. Rendsberg, Gary (2008). "Israel without the Bible". In Frederick E. Greenspahn. The Hebrew Bible: New Insights and Scholarship. NYU Press, pp. 3–5
52. Book: Gnuse . Robert Karl . No Other Gods: Emergent Monotheism in Israel . 1997 . Sheffield Academic Press Ltd . 978-1-85075-657-6 . 28, 31.
53. Steiner, Richard C. (1997), "Ancient Hebrew", in Hetzron, Robert (ed.), The Semitic Languages, Routledge, pp. 145–173,
54. Book: Dever, William . [{{Google books|6-VxwC5rQtwC|page=|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} What Did the Biblical Writers Know, and When Did They Know It? ]. 2001 . Eerdmans . 978-3-927120-37-2 . 98–99 . After a century of exhaustive investigation, all respectable archaeologists have given up hope of recovering any context that would make Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob credible "historical figures" [...] archaeological investigation of Moses and the Exodus has similarly been discarded as a fruitless pursuit..

55. "While there is a consensus among scholars that the Exodus did not take place in the manner described in the Bible, surprisingly most scholars agree that the narrative has a historical core, and that some of the highland settlers came, one way or another, from Egypt.."

56. "A few authorities have concluded that the core events of the Exodus saga are entirely literary fabrications. But most biblical scholars still subscribe to some variation of the Documentary Hypothesis, and support the basic historicity of the biblical narrative."

57. Book: Dever, William . What Did the Biblical Writers Know, and When Did They Know It? . Eerdmans . 2001 . 978-3-927120-37-2 . 98–99 . After a century of exhaustive investigation, all respectable archaeologists have given up hope of recovering any context that would make Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob credible "historical figures" [...] archaeological investigation of Moses and the Exodus has similarly been discarded as a fruitless pursuit..
58. Book: Lipschits . Oded . The Jewish Study Bible . Oxford University Press . 2014 . 978-0-19-997846-5 . Berlin . Adele . 2nd . en . The History of Israel in the Biblical Period . Brettler . Marc Zvi . https://books.google.com/books?id=yErYBAAAQBAJ . 1 December 2018 . 9 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230409160917/https://books.google.com/books?id=yErYBAAAQBAJ . live .
59. Book: Kuhrt, Amiele . The Ancient Near East . Routledge . 1995 . 978-0-415-16762-8 . 438.
60. Book: Finkelstein . Israel . The Bible unearthed: archaeology's new vision of ancient Israel and the origin of its stories . Silberman . Neil Asher . 2001 . Simon & Schuster . 978-0-684-86912-4 . 1st Touchstone .
61. Web site: Wright. Jacob L.. July 2014. David, King of Judah (Not Israel). https://web.archive.org/web/20210301164250/http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/2014/07/wri388001.shtml. 1 March 2021. 15 May 2021. The Bible and Interpretation.
62. Finkelstein, Israel, (2020). "Saul and Highlands of Benjamin Update: The Role of Jerusalem", in Joachim J. Krause, Omer Sergi, and Kristin Weingart (eds.), Saul, Benjamin, and the Emergence of Monarchy in Israel: Biblical and Archaeological Perspectives, SBL Press, Atlanta, GA, p. 48, footnote 57: "...They became territorial kingdoms later, Israel in the first half of the ninth century BCE and Judah in its second half..."
63. https://books.google.com/books?id=tu02muKUVJ0C&pg=PA229 The Pitcher Is Broken: Memorial Essays for Gosta W. Ahlstrom, Steven W. Holloway, Lowell K. Handy, Continuum, 1 May 1995

64. Put simply, while Judah was still economically marginal and backward, Israel was booming. ... In the next chapter we will see how the northern kingdom suddenly appeared on the ancient Near Eastern stage as a major regional power.

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70. "Intensive excavations throughout Jerusalem have shown that the city was indeed systematically destroyed by the Babylonians. The conflagration seems to have been general. When activity on the ridge of the City of David resumed in the Persian period, the-new suburbs on the western hill that had flourished since at least the time of Hezekiah were not reoccupied."

71. Lipschits . Oded . 1999 . The History of the Benjamin Region under Babylonian Rule . Tel Aviv . 26 . 2 . 155–190 . 10.1179/tav.1999.1999.2.155 . 0334-4355.
72. Wheeler . P. . 2017 . Review of the book Song of Exile: The Enduring Mystery of Psalm 137, by David W. Stowe . The Catholic Biblical Quarterly . 79 . 4 . 696–697 . 10.1353/cbq.2017.0092 . 171830838.
73. Web site: Second Temple Period (538 BCE to 70 CE) Persian Rule . live . https://web.archive.org/web/19990116222939/http://www.biu.ac.il/js/rennert/history_4.html . 16 January 1999 . 15 March 2014 . Biu.ac.il.
74. Harper's Bible Dictionary, ed. by Achtemeier, etc., Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1985, p. 103
75. Book: Grabbe, Lester L. . A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period: Yehud – A History of the Persian Province of Judah v. 1 . T & T Clark . 2004 . 978-0-567-08998-4 . 355 . 1 December 2018 . 19 December 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231219070639/https://books.google.com/books?id=-MnE5T_0RbMC&pg=PAPA355&dq=%22gave%2Bthe%2BJews%2Bpermission%2Bto%2Breturn%2Bto%2BYehud%2Bprovince%2Band%2Bto%2Brebuild%2Bthe%22 . live .
76. Book: Helyer . Larry R. . The World of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts . McDonald . Lee Martin . Baker Academic . 2013 . 978-0-8010-9861-1 . Green . Joel B. . 45–47 . The Hasmoneans and the Hasmonean Era . 961153992 . The ensuing power struggle left Hyrcanus with a free hand in Judea, and he quickly reasserted Jewish sovereignty... Hyrcanus then engaged in a series of military campaigns aimed at territorial expansion. He first conquered areas in the Transjordan. He then turned his attention to Samaria, which had long separated Judea from the northern Jewish settlements in Lower Galilee. In the south, Adora and Marisa were conquered; (Aristobulus') primary accomplishment was annexing and Judaizing the region of Iturea, located between the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains . McDonald . Lee Martin.
77. Book: Ben-Sasson, H.H. . A History of the Jewish People . Harvard University Press . 1976 . 978-0-674-39731-6 . 226 . The expansion of Hasmonean Judea took place gradually. Under Jonathan, Judea annexed southern Samaria and began to expand in the direction of the coast plain... The main ethnic changes were the work of John Hyrcanus... it was in his days and those of his son Aristobulus that the annexation of Idumea, Samaria and Galilee and the consolidation of Jewish settlement in Trans-Jordan was completed. Alexander Jannai, continuing the work of his predecessors, expanded Judean rule to the entire coastal plain, from the Carmel to the Egyptian border... and to additional areas in Trans-Jordan, including some of the Greek cities there..
78. Book: Ben-Eliyahu, Eyal . Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity . 30 April 2019 . 978-0-520-29360-1 . 13 . Univ of California Press . 1103519319 . From the beginning of the Second Temple period until the Muslim conquest—the land was part of imperial space. This was true from the early Persian period, as well as the time of Ptolemy and the Seleucids. The only exception was the Hasmonean Kingdom, with its sovereign Jewish rule—first over Judah and later, in Alexander Jannaeus's prime, extending to the coast, the north, and the eastern banks of the Jordan. .
79. Book: Schwartz, Seth . The ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad . 2014 . 978-1-107-04127-1 . Cambridge University Press . 85–86 . 863044259 . The year 70 ce marked transformations in demography, politics, Jewish civic status, Palestinian and more general Jewish economic and social structures, Jewish religious life beyond the sacrificial cult, and even Roman politics and the topography of the city of Rome itself. [...] The Revolt's failure had, to begin with, a demographic impact on the Jews of Palestine; many died in battle and as a result of siege conditions, not only in Jerusalem. [...] As indicated above, the figures for captives are conceivably more reliable. If 97,000 is roughly correct as a total for the war, it would mean that a huge percentage of the population was removed from the country, or at the very least displaced from their homes. Nevertheless, only sixty years later, there was a large enough population in the Judaean countryside to stage a massively disruptive second rebellion; this one appears to have ended, in 135, with devastation and depopulation of the district. . 4 February 2024 . 3 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240403134300/https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6pkAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA85 . live .
80. Werner Eck, "Sklaven und Freigelassene von Römern in Iudaea und den angrenzenden Provinzen", Novum Testamentum 55 (2013): 1–21
81. Raviv . Dvir . Ben David . Chaim . 2021 . Cassius Dio's figures for the demographic consequences of the Bar Kokhba War: Exaggeration or reliable account? . Journal of Roman Archaeology . en . 34 . 2 . 585–607 . 10.1017/S1047759421000271 . 245512193 . free . 1047-7594 . Scholars have long doubted the historical accuracy of Cassius Dio's account of the consequences of the Bar Kokhba War (Roman History 69.14). According to this text, considered the most reliable literary source for the Second Jewish Revolt, the war encompassed all of Judea: the Romans destroyed 985 villages and 50 fortresses, and killed 580,000 rebels. This article reassesses Cassius Dio's figures by drawing on new evidence from excavations and surveys in Judea, Transjordan, and the Galilee. Three research methods are combined: an ethno-archaeological comparison with the settlement picture in the Ottoman Period, comparison with similar settlement studies in the Galilee, and an evaluation of settled sites from the Middle Roman Period (70–136 CE). The study demonstrates the potential contribution of the archaeological record to this issue and supports the view of Cassius Dio's demographic data as a reliable account, which he based on contemporaneous documentation.. free .
82. Book: Mor, Menahem . The Second Jewish Revolt . 18 April 2016 . BRILL . 978-90-04-31463-4 . 483–484 . 10.1163/9789004314634 . Land confiscation in Judaea was part of the suppression of the revolt policy of the Romans and punishment for the rebels. But the very claim that the sikarikon laws were annulled for settlement purposes seems to indicate that Jews continued to reside in Judaea even after the Second Revolt. There is no doubt that this area suffered the severest damage from the suppression of the revolt. Settlements in Judaea, such as Herodion and Bethar, had already been destroyed during the course of the revolt, and Jews were expelled from the districts of Gophna, Herodion, and Aqraba. However, it should not be claimed that the region of Judaea was completely destroyed. Jews continued to live in areas such as Lod (Lydda), south of the Hebron Mountain, and the coastal regions. In other areas of the Land of Israel that did not have any direct connection with the Second Revolt, no settlement changes can be identified as resulting from it..
83. Oppenheimer, A'haron and Oppenheimer, Nili. Between Rome and Babylon: Studies in Jewish Leadership and Society. Mohr Siebeck, 2005, p. 2.
84. H.H. Ben-Sasson, A History of the Jewish People, Harvard University Press, 1976,, page 334: "In an effort to wipe out all memory of the bond between the Jews and the land, Hadrian changed the name of the province from Judaea to Syria-Palestina, a name that became common in non-Jewish literature."
85. Ariel Lewin. The archaeology of Ancient Judea and Palestine. Getty Publications, 2005 p. 33. "It seems clear that by choosing a seemingly neutral name – one juxtaposing that of a neighboring province with the revived name of an ancient geographical entity (Palestine), already known from the writings of Herodotus – Hadrian was intending to suppress any connection between the Jewish people and that land."
86. Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History. 4:6.3-4
87. Book: Cohn-Sherbok, Dan . Atlas of Jewish History . Routledge . 1996 . 978-0-415-08800-8 . 58.
88. Web site: Lehmann . Clayton Miles . 18 January 2007 . Palestine . https://archive.today/20130407005423/http://sunburst.usd.edu/~clehmann/erp/Palestine/palestin.htm . 7 April 2013 . 9 February 2013 . Encyclopedia of the Roman Provinces . University of South Dakota.
89. Book: הר, משה דוד . ארץ-ישראל בשלהי העת העתיקה: מבואות ומחקרים . יד יצחק בן-צבי . 2022 . 978-965-217-444-4 . Moshe David Herr . 1 . ירושלים . 210–212 . he . Eretz Israel in Late Antiquity: Introductions and Studies . היהודים בארץ-ישראל בימי האימפריה הרומית הנוצרית . The Jews in the Land of Israel in the Days of the Christian Roman Empire.
90. Book: Ehrlich, Michael . The Islamization of the Holy Land, 634–1800 . Arc Humanities Press . 2022 . 978-1-64189-222-3 . 3–4 . 1302180905 . The Jewish community strove to recover from the catastrophic results of the Bar Kokhva revolt (132–135 CE). Although some of these attempts were relatively successful, the Jews never fully recovered. During the Late Roman and Byzantine periods, many Jews emigrated to thriving centres in the diaspora, especially Iraq, whereas some converted to Christianity and others continued to live in the Holy Land, especially in Galilee and the coastal plain. During the Byzantine period, the three provinces of Palestine included more than thirty cities, namely, settlements with a bishop see. After the Muslim conquest in the 630s, most of these cities declined and eventually disappeared. As a result, in many cases the local ecclesiastical administration weakened, while in others it simply ceased to exist. Consequently, many local Christians converted to Islam. Thus, almost twelve centuries later, when the army led by Napoleon Bonaparte arrived in the Holy Land, most of the local population was Muslim..
91. Book: David Goodblatt . The Cambridge History of Judaism . 2006 . 978-0-521-77248-8 . Steven Katz . IV . 404–430 . The Political and Social History of the Jewish Community in the Land of Israel, c. 235–638 . Cambridge University Press . Few would disagree that, in the century and a half before our period begins, the Jewish population of Judah suffered a serious blow from which it never recovered. The destruction of the Jewish metropolis of Jerusalem and its environs and the eventual refounding of the city... had lasting repercussions. [...] However, in other parts of Palestine the Jewish population remained strong [...] What does seem clear is a different kind of change. Immigration of Christians and the conversion of pagans, Samaritans and Jews eventually produced a Christian majority.
92. Bar . Doron . 2003 . The Christianisation of Rural Palestine during Late Antiquity . The Journal of Ecclesiastical History . 54 . 3 . 401–421 . 10.1017/s0022046903007309 . 0022-0469 . The dominant view of the history of Palestine during the Byzantine period links the early phases of the consecration of the land during the fourth century and the substantial external financial investment that accompanied the building of churches on holy sites on the one hand with the Christianisation of the population on the other. Churches were erected primarily at the holy sites, 12 while at the same time Palestine's position and unique status as the Christian 'Holy Land' became more firmly rooted. All this, coupled with immigration and conversion, allegedly meant that the Christianisation of Palestine took place much more rapidly than that of other areas of the Roman empire, brought in its wake the annihilation of the pagan cults and meant that by the middle of the fifth century there was a clear Christian majority..
93. Book: Kohen, Elli . History of the Byzantine Jews: A Microcosmos in the Thousand Year Empire . . 2007 . 978-0-7618-3623-0 . 26–31 . 30 March 2023 . 19 December 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231219070638/https://books.google.com/books?id=r-9qJRP20MIC&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q&f=false . live .
94. Web site: Roman Palestine . Encyclopedia Britannica . 30 March 2023 . 30 October 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231030111546/https://www.britannica.com/place/Palestine/Roman-Palestine . live .
95. לוי-רובין . מילכה . Levy-Rubin . Milka . 2006 . The Influence of the Muslim Conquest on the Settlement Pattern of Palestine during the Early Muslim Period / הכיבוש כמעצב מפת היישוב של ארץ-ישראל בתקופה המוסלמית הקדומה . Cathedra: For the History of Eretz Israel and Its Yishuv / קתדרה: לתולדות ארץ ישראל ויישובה . 121 . 53–78 . 23407269 . 0334-4657.
96. Book: Ellenblum, Ronnie . Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. . 2010 . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-511-58534-0 . 958547332 . From the data given above it can be concluded that the Muslim population of Central Samaria, during the early Muslim period, was not an autochthonous population which had converted to Christianity. They arrived there either by way of migration or as a result of a process of sedentarization of the nomads who had filled the vacuum created by the departing Samaritans at the end of the Byzantine period [...] To sum up: in the only rural region in Palestine in which, according to all the written and archeological sources, the process of Islamization was completed already in the twelfth century, there occurred events consistent with the model propounded by Levtzion and Vryonis: the region was abandoned by its original sedentary population and the vacuum was apparently filled by nomads who, at a later stage, gradually became sedentarized.
97. Book: Gil, Moshe . A History of Palestine, 634–1099 . Cambridge University Press . 1997 . 978-0-521-59984-9.
98. Broshi . Magen . 1979 . The Population of Western Palestine in the Roman-Byzantine Period . Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research . 236 . 236 . 1–10 . 10.2307/1356664 . 0003-097X . 1356664 . 24341643.
99. Book: Gil, Moshe . A History of Palestine, 634-1099 . Cambridge University Press . 1992 . 978-0-521-59984-9 . 14 . 17 May 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240517102802/https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=M0wUKoMJeccC&oi=fnd&pg=PR13&dq=history+of+palestine+two+people&ots=CMV1-8kJav&sig=C1Eh2oIUdicDWgg_Clo6yJgumUQ#v=onepage&q=history%20of%20palestine%20two%20people&f=false . 17 May 2024 . live.
100. Book: Kramer, Gudrun . A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel . Princeton University Press . 2008 . 978-0-691-11897-0 . 376.
101. Joel Rappel, History of Eretz Israel from Prehistory up to 1882 (1980), vol. 2, p. 531. "In 1662 Sabbathai Sevi arrived to Jerusalem. It was the time when the Jewish settlements of Galilee were destroyed by the Druze: Tiberias was completely desolate and only a few of former Safed residents had returned...."
102. D. Tamar, "On the Jews of Safed in the Days of the Ottoman Conquest" Cathedra 11 (1979), cited Dan Ben Amos, Dov Noy (eds.),Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands), Jewish Publication Society 2011 p.61, n.3: Tamar . .challenges David's conclusion concerning the severity of the riots against the Jews, arguing that the support of the Egyptian Jews saved the community of Safed from destruction'.
103. Book: The Solomon Goldman lectures . Spertus College of Judaica Press . 1999 . 978-0-935982-57-2 . 56 . The Turks' conquest of the city in 1517, was marked by a violent pogrom of murder, rape, and plunder of Jewish homes. The surviving Jews fled to the "land of Beirut", not to return until 1533..
104. Toby Green (2007). Inquisition; The Reign of Fear. Macmillan Press pp. xv–xix.
105. Web site: Alfassá . Shelomo . Sephardic Contributions to the Development of the State of Israel . 17 August 2007 . Alfassa.com . 14 January 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071012042245/http://www.alfassa.com/contributions.pdf . 2007-10-12.
106. Book: Cane . Peter . Millet system - Oxford Reference . Conaghan . Joanne . Joanne Conaghan . 2008 . 9780199290543 . 10.1093/acref/9780199290543.001.0001.
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109. Web site: EARLY MODERN JEWISH HISTORY: Overview » 5. Ottoman Empire . 2018-11-24 . jewishhistory.research.wesleyan.edu . 28 September 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200928204445/http://jewishhistory.research.wesleyan.edu/i-jewish-population/5-ottoman-empire/ . live .
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111. . "Zionism, the urge of the Jewish people to return to Palestine, is almost as ancient as the Jewish diaspora itself. Some Talmudic statements ... Almost a millennium later, the poet and philosopher Yehuda Halevi ... In the 19th century ..."
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113. Book: Morgenstern, Arie . Hastening redemption: Messianism and the resettlement of the land of Israel . Oxford University Press . 2006 . 978-0-19-530578-4 . 304.
114. Book: Barnai, Jacob . The Jews in Palestine in the Eighteenth Century: Under the Patronage of the Istanbul committee of Officials for Palestine . University Alabama Press . 1992 . 978-0-8173-0572-7 . 320.
115. Web site: Palestine – Ottoman rule . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211204202215/https://www.britannica.com/place/Palestine#ref45065 . 4 December 2021 . 27 November 2018 . Encyclopedia Britannica.
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118. Mandel . Neville J. . 1974 . Ottoman Policy and Restrictions on Jewish Settlement in Palestine: 1881–1908: Part I . Middle Eastern Studies . 10 . 3 . 312–332 . 10.1080/00263207408700278 . 0026-3206 . 1 December 2023 . 3 December 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231203103201/https://ismi.emory.edu/documents/Readings/Mandel,%20Neville%20J.%20Ottoman%20Policy.pdf . live .
119. Book: Levine, Aaron. 2014. Russian Jews and the 1917 Revolution. 14. 7 December 2023. 8 March 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230308091831/https://psource.sitehost.iu.edu/PDF/Archive%20Articles/Spring2014/2014%20-%20Spring%20-%203%20-%20Levine%20Aaron.pdf. live.
120. . "As with the First Aliyah, most Second Aliyah migrants were non-Zionist orthodox Jews ..."
121. Book: Moris . Beni . Righteous victims: a history of the Zionist-Arab conflict, 1881 – 2001 . 2001 . Vintage Books . New York, NY . 9780679744757 . 1. Vintage Books . Many of these newcomers possessed a mixture of socialist and nationalist values, and they eventually succeeded in setting up a separate Jewish economy, based wholly on Jewish labor..
122. Book: Moris . Beni . Righteous victims: a history of the Zionist-Arab conflict, 1881 – 2001 . 2001 . Vintage Books . New York, NY . 9780679744757 . 1. Vintage Books . Another major cause of antagonism was the labor controversy. The hard core of Second Aliyah socialists, who were to become the Yishuv's leaders in the 1920s and 1930s, believed that the settler economy must not depend on or exploit Arab labor... But, in reality, rather than “meshing,” the nationalist ethos had simply overpowered and driven out the socialist ethos... There were other reasons for the “conquest of labor.” The socialists of the Second Aliyah used the term to denote three things: overcoming the Jews' traditional remove from agricultural labor and helping them transform into the “new Jews”; struggling against employers for better conditions; and replacing Arabs with Jews in manual jobs..
123. Book: Gelvin, James . James L. Gelvin . The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War . . 2002 . 3 . 2014 . 978-0-521-85289-0 . 9 November 2020 . 9 October 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231009012922/https://books.google.com/books?id=wfIFVze1MqQC&pg=PA81#v=onepage&q&f=false . live .
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126. Book: Avi Shlaim . https://books.google.com/books?id=HBBbY9rMxSAC&pg=PA . The Iron Wall . W.W. Norton . 2001 . 978-0-393-32112-8 . PROLOGUE: THE ZIONIST FOUNDATIONS . 4 February 2024 . 3 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240403134300/https://books.google.com/books?id=HBBbY9rMxSAC&pg=PA . live .
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128. Web site: The Covenant of the League of Nations . Article 22 . 18 October 2012 . 26 July 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110726080156/http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/leagcov.asp#art22 . live .
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130. . "During the First and Second Aliyot, there were many Arab attacks against Jewish settlements ... In 1920, Hashomer was disbanded and Haganah ("The Defense") was established."
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156. 'As to territorial boundaries, under the plan the Jewish State was allotted approximately 57 percent of the total area of Palestine even though the Jewish population comprised only 33 percent of the country. In addition, according to British records relied upon by the ad hoc committee, the Jewish population possessed registered ownership of only 5.6 percent of Palestine, and was eclipsed by the Arabs in land ownership in every one of Palestine's 16 sub-districts. Moreover, the quality of the land granted to the proposed Jewish state was highly skewed in its favour. UNSCOP reported that under its majority plan "[t]he Jews will have the more economically developed part of the country embracing practically the whole of the citrus-producing area"—Palestine's staple export crop—even though approximately half of the citrus-bearing land was owned by the Arabs. In addition, according to updated British records submitted to the ad hoc committee's two sub-committees, "of the irrigated, cultivable areas" of the country, 84 per cent would be in the Jewish State and 16 per cent would be in the Arab State".'

157. "The night of 29–30 November passed in the Yishuv's settlements in noisy public rejoicing. Most had sat glued to their radio sets broadcasting live from Flushing Meadow. A collective cry of joy went up when the two-thirds mark was achieved: a state had been sanctioned by the international community."

158. "The immediate trigger of the 1948 War was the November 1947 UN partition resolution. The Zionist movement, except for its fringes, accepted the proposal."

159. Matthews, John: Israel-Palestine land division

160. 'Although the Zionists had coveted the whole of Palestine, the Jewish Agency leadership pragmatically, if grudgingly, accepted Resolution 181(II). Although they were of the view that the Jewish national home promised in the Mandate was equivalent to a Jewish state, they well understood that such a claim could not be maintained under prevailing international law..Based on its own terms, it is impossible to escape the conclusion that the partition plan privileged European interests over those of Palestine's indigenous people and, as such, was an embodiment of the Eurocentricity of the international system that was allegedly a thing of the past. For this reason, the Arabs took a more principled position in line with prevailing international law, rejecting partition outright . .This rejection has disingenuously been presented in some of the literature as indicative of political intransigence,69 and even hostility towards the Jews as Jews'

161. , p. 66: at 1946 "The League demanded independence for Palestine as a "unitary" state, with an Arab majority and minority rights for the Jews.", p. 67: at 1947 "The League's Political Committee met in Sofar, Lebanon, on 16–19 September, and urged the Palestine Arabs to fight partition, which it called "aggression," "without mercy." The League promised them, in line with Bludan, assistance "in manpower, money and equipment" should the United Nations endorse partition.", p. 72: at December 1947 "The League vowed, in very general language, "to try to stymie the partition plan and prevent the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.""
162. Book: Gelber, Yoav . Palestine 1948 . 2006 . Sussex Academic Press . 978-1-902210-67-4 . 17.
163. Book: Tal, David . War in Palestine, 1948: Israeli and Arab Strategy and Diplomacy . 2003 . Routledge . 978-0-7146-5275-7 . 471.
164. Clifford, Clark, "Counsel to the President: A Memoir", 1991, p. 20.
165. Book: The entry into (the) war of the Arab countries poses a complex legal problem. The crossing of the borders can constitute an act of aggression or a threat against peace, justifying a condemnation and an intervention by the United Nations, but if the armies penetrate only the Arab part of the partition plan, they can be considered as called on (to do so) by the population and at this stage their intervention would not in itself be a threat against the peace. That would only start were the Jewish part attacked. Now, the Arab armies do directly threaten Jewish territory at certain points while in others the Jews have already largely taken up positions in Arab territory. . L'entrée en guerre des pays arabes pose un problem juridique complexe. Le franchissement des frontières peut constituer un acte d'aggression ou une menace contre la paix, justifiant une condannation et une intervention des Nations unies, mais si les armées pénètrent seulement dans la partie arabe du plan de partage, elles peuvent être considérées comme appelées par la population et à ce stade leur intervention ne serait pas par elle-même une menace contre la paix. Elle ne commencerait qu'avec l'attaque de la partie juive. Or, en certains points, les armées arabes menacent directement le territoire juif et dans d'autres les Juifs se sont déjà largement installés en territoire arabe. . Henry Laurens (scholar) . Henry Laurens . La Question de Palestine . . Paris . 2007 . 3 . 104.
166. Book: Karsh, Efraim . The Arab–Israeli conflict: The Palestine War 1948 . 2002 . Osprey Publishing . 978-1-84176-372-9. 50.
167. Book: Rabinovich, Itamar . Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present . Reinharz, Jehuda . 2007 . Brandeis . 978-0-87451-962-4 . 74 .
168. Book: War in Palestine, 1948: Israeli and Arab Strategy and Diplomacy . David Tal . 2004 . Routledge . 978-1-135-77513-1 . 469 . some of the Arab armies invaded Palestine in order to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state, Transjordan... . 1 December 2018 . 19 December 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231219070640/https://books.google.com/books?id=Vs2PAgAAQBAJ&pg=PAPR4#v=onepage&q&f=false . live .

169. "A week before the armies marched, Azzam told Kirkbride: "It does not matter how many [Jews] there are. We will sweep them into the sea." ... Ahmed Shukeiry, one of Haj Amin al-Husseini's aides (and, later, the founding chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization), simply described the aim as "the elimination of the Jewish state." ... al-Quwwatli told his people: "Our army has entered ... we shall win and we shall eradicate Zionism""

170. Web site: PDF copy of Cablegram from the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States to the Secretary-General of the United Nations: S/745: 15 May 1948 . Un.org . 9 September 2002 . 13 October 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140107030419/http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=S%2F745 . 7 January 2014 .
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172. Book: Morris, Benny. Benny Morris. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. 978-0-521-00967-6 . Cambridge University Press. 602 . 2004 .
173. Web site: עיצוב יחסי יהודים - ערבים בעשור הראשון. lib.cet.ac.il. 2 September 2021. 8 October 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221008065301/https://lib.cet.ac.il/pages/item.asp?item=13336. live.
174. Web site: Two Hundred and Seventh Plenary Meeting . The United Nations . 11 May 1949 . 13 July 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070912101430/http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/1ce874ab1832a53e852570bb006dfaf6/0b3ab8d2a7c0273d8525694b00726d1b . 12 September 2007 .
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177. Segev, Tom. 1949: The First Israelis. "The First Million". Trans. Arlen N. Weinstein. New York: The Free Press, 1986. Print. pp. 105–107
178. Book: Shulewitz, Malka Hillel . The Forgotten Millions: The Modern Jewish Exodus from Arab Lands . 2001 . Continuum . 978-0-8264-4764-7.
179. Laskier, Michael "Egyptian Jewry under the Nasser Regime, 1956–70" pp. 573–619 from Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 31, Issue # 3, July 1995 p. 579.
180. Web site: Population, by Religion . 2016 . Israel Central Bureau of Statistics . 4 September 2016 . 18 September 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160918223343/http://www.cbs.gov.il/reader/shnaton/templ_shnaton_e.html?num_tab=st02_02&CYear=2016 . live .
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183. Clive Jones, Emma Murphy, Israel: Challenges to Identity, Democracy, and the State, Routledge 2002 p. 37: "Housing units earmarked for the Oriental Jews were often reallocated to European Jewish immigrants; Consigning Oriental Jews to the privations of ma'aborot (transit camps) for longer periods."
184. Book: Kameel B. Nasr. [{{Google books|QRXURzwdXS4C|page=PA40|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} Arab and Israeli Terrorism: The Causes and Effects of Political Violence, 1936–1993]. 1996. McFarland. 978-0-7864-3105-2. 40– . Fedayeen to attack...almost always against civilians.
185. Book: Isaac Alteras. Eisenhower and Israel: U.S.-Israeli Relations, 1953–1960. 1993. University Press of Florida. 978-0-8130-1205-6. 192–. the removal of the Egyptian blockade of the Straits of Tiran at the entrance of the Gulf of Aqaba. The blockade closed Israel's sea lane to East Africa and the Far East, hindering the development of Israel's southern port of Eilat and its hinterland, the Nege. Another important objective of the Israeli war plan was the elimination of the terrorist bases in the Gaza Strip, from which daily fedayeen incursions into Israel made life unbearable for its southern population. And last but not least, the concentration of the Egyptian forces in the Sinai Peninsula, armed with the newly acquired weapons from the Soviet bloc, prepared for an attack on Israel. Here, Ben-Gurion believed, was a time bomb that had to be defused before it was too late. Reaching the Suez Canal did not figure at all in Israel's war objectives.. 1 December 2018. 19 December 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231219071150/https://books.google.com/books?id=ydRHCPWngioC&pg=PAPA192. live.
186. Book: Dominic Joseph Caraccilo. Beyond Guns and Steel: A War Termination Strategy. 2011. ABC-CLIO. 978-0-313-39149-1. 113–. The escalation continued with the Egyptian blockade of the Straits of Tiran, and Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal in July 1956. On October 14, Nasser made clear his intent:"I am not solely fighting against Israel itself. My task is to deliver the Arab world from destruction through Israel's intrigue, which has its roots abroad. Our hatred is very strong. There is no sense in talking about peace with Israel. There is not even the smallest place for negotiations." Less than two weeks later, on October 25, Egypt signed a tripartite agreement with Syria and Jordan placing Nasser in command of all three armies. The continued blockade of the Suez Canal and Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, combined with the increased fedayeen attacks and the bellicosity of recent Arab statements, prompted Israel, with the backing of Britain and France, to attack Egypt on October 29, 1956.. 1 December 2018. 19 December 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231219071150/https://books.google.com/books?id=FDA8dQyaQ9MC&pg=PAPA113. live.
187. Book: Alan Dowty. Israel/Palestine. 2005. Polity. 978-0-7456-3202-5. 102–. Gamal Abdel Nasser, who declared in one speech that "Egypt has decided to dispatch her heroes, the disciples of Pharaoh and the sons of Islam and they will cleanse the land of Palestine....There will be no peace on Israel's border because we demand vengeance, and vengeance is Israel's death."...The level of violence against Israelis, soldiers and civilians alike, seemed to be rising inexorably.. 1 December 2018. 19 December 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231219071150/https://books.google.com/books?id=9iFxq6NPPgEC&pg=PAPA102#v=onepage&q&f=false. live.
188. News: Suez Crisis: Key players. 21 July 2006. 19 July 2018. en-GB. 26 October 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211026234223/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5195582.stm. live.
189. Web site: The Suez Crisis . Schoenherr . Steven . 15 December 2005 . 31 May 2013 . 30 April 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140430091614/http://sunnycv.com/steve/20th/suez.html . live .
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191. Book: Benny Morris. [{{Google books|jGtVsBne7PgC|page=|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881–1998]. 25 May 2011. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 978-0-307-78805-4. 300, 301. [p. 300] In exchange (for Israeli withdrawal) the United states had indirectly promised to guarantee Israel's right of passage through the straits (to the Red sea) and its right to self defense if the Egyptian closed them....(p 301) The 1956 war resulted in a significant reduction of...Israeli border tension. Egypt refrained from reactivating the Fedaeen, and...Egypt and Jordan made great effort to curb infiltration.
192. Shlomo Shpiro . No place to hide: Intelligence and civil liberties in Israel . Cambridge Review of International Affairs . 19 . 44 . 629–648 . 2006 . 144734253 . 10.1080/09557570601003361.
193. News: How a Standoff with the U.S. Almost Blew up Israel's Nuclear Program. Haaretz. 3 May 2019. Cohen. Avner. 11 November 2019. 2 February 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210202173023/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-a-standoff-with-the-u-s-almost-blew-up-israel-s-nuclear-program-1.7193419. live.
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197. News: On This Day 5 Jun . 5 June 1967 . BBC . 26 December 2011 . 14 July 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070714044705/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/5/newsid_2654000/2654251.stm . live .
198. Book: Gat, Moshe . Britain and the Conflict in the Middle East, 1964–1967: The Coming of the Six-Day War . Greenwood Publishing Group . 2003 . 202 . 978-0-275-97514-2 . 4 October 2020 . 19 December 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231219071151/https://books.google.com/books?id=ntLdA8QIgXIC&q=On+the+night+of+May+22-23,+Nasser+declared+the+Gulf+of+Aqaba+closed+to+Israeli+shipping&pg=PA202 . live .
199. [John Quigley (academic)|John Quigley]
200. Book: Samir A. Mutawi. Jordan in the 1967 War. 2002. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-52858-0. 93. Although Eshkol denounced the Egyptians, his response to this development was a model of moderation. His speech on 21 May demanded that Nasser withdraw his forces from Sinai but made no mention of the removal of UNEF from the Straits nor of what Israel would do if they were closed to Israeli shipping. The next day Nasser announced to an astonished world that henceforth the Straits were, indeed, closed to all Israeli ships. 17 September 2021. 31 October 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231031043157/https://books.google.com/books?id=g9bBJusRJIMC. live.
201. . "Nasser, the Egyptian president, decided to mass troops in the Sinai... casus belli by Israel."
202. News: The Interregnum . Bennet . James . 13 March 2005 . The New York Times Magazine . 11 February 2010 . 16 April 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090416021652/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/magazine/13PALESTINIANS.html . live .
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207. Web site: Agranat Commission . Knesset . 2008 . 8 April 2010 . 29 December 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101229175926/http://knesset.gov.il/lexicon/eng/agranat_eng.htm . live .

208. "In hindsight we can say that 1977 was a turning point ..."

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210. Lustick . Ian . 1997 . Has Israel Annexed East Jerusalem? . Middle East Policy . V . 1 . 34–45 . 1061-1924 . 4651987544 . 10.1111/j.1475-4967.1997.tb00247.x . 1 June 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091120090306/http://www.mepc.org/journal_vol5/9701_lustick.asp . 20 November 2009 .
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232. News: Hong . Nicole . 23 February 2015 . Jury Finds Palestinian Authority, PLO Liable for Terrorist Attacks in Israel a Decade Ago . The Wall Street Journal . 22 April 2016 . 14 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160414204555/http://www.wsj.com/articles/jury-finds-palestinian-authority-plo-liable-for-terrorist-attacks-in-israel-a-decade-ago-1424715529 . live .
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283. Book: Jacoby, Tami Amanda . [{{Google books|pr1LJNrlmuIC|page=PA53|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} Women in Zones of Conflict: Power and Resistance in Israel ]. McGill-Queen's University Press . 2005 . 978-0-7735-2993-9 . 53–54. Although there is no official religion in Israel, there is also no clear separation between religion and state. In Israeli public life, tensions frequently arise among different streams of Judaism: Ultra-Orthodox, National-Religious, Mesorati (Conservative), Reconstructionist Progressive (Reform), and varying combinations of traditionalism and non-observance. Despite this variety in religious observances in society, Orthodox Judaism prevails institutionally over the other streams. This boundary is an historical consequence of the unique evolution of the relationship between Israel nationalism and state building. ... Since the founding period, in order to defuse religious tensions, the State of Israel has adopted what is known as the 'status quo,' an unwritten agreement stipulating that no further changes would be made in the status of religion, and that conflict between the observant and non-observant sectors would be handled circumstantially. The 'status quo' has since pertained to the legal status of both religious and secular Jews in Israel. This situation was designed to appease the religious sector, and has been upheld indefinitely through the disproportionate power of religious political parties in all subsequent coalition governments. ... On one hand, the Declaration of Independence adopted in 1948 explicitly guarantees freedom of religion. On the other, it simultaneously prevents the separation of religion and state in Israel..
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323. 'Significant human rights issues included credible reports of: unlawful or arbitrary killings; arbitrary detention, often extraterritorial detention of Palestinians from the occupied territories in Israel; restrictions on Palestinians residing in Jerusalem including arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy, family, and home; substantial interference with the freedom of association; arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy; harassment of nongovernmental organizations; significant restrictions on freedom of movement within the country; violence against asylum seekers and irregular migrants; violence or threats of violence against national, racial, or ethnic minority groups; and labor rights abuses against foreign workers and Palestinians from the West Bank.' Israel 2021 Human Rights Report, United States Department of State 17 April 2021.
324. 'With respect to Israeli security forces in the West Bank: credible reports of unlawful or arbitrary killings due to unnecessary or disproportionate use of force by Israeli officials; torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment by Israeli officials; arbitrary arrest or detention; arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy; restrictions on free expression and media, including violence, threats of violence, unjustified arrests and prosecutions against journalists, and censorship; restrictions on internet freedom; restrictions on Palestinians residing in Jerusalem, including arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy, family, and home; substantial interference with the rights of peaceful assembly and freedom of association, including harassment of nongovernmental organizations; and restrictions on freedom of movement and residence.' 2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Israel, West Bank and Gaza, United States Department of State 12 April 2022
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547. Although East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights have been brought directly under Israeli law, by acts that amount to annexation, both of these areas continue to be viewed by the international community as occupied, and their status as regards the applicability of international rules is in most respects identical to that of the West Bank and Gaza.
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559. Book: Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, Hava . Hava. Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot . Dorit . Diskin Ravid. Dorit Ravid. Perspectives on Language and Development: Essays in Honor of Ruth A. Berman . . Kluwer Academic Publishers . 2004 . 90 . Part I: Language and Discourse . 978-1-4020-7911-5 . English is not considered official but it plays a dominant role in the educational and public life of Israeli society. ... It is the language most widely used in commerce, business, formal papers, academia, and public interactions, public signs, road directions, names of buildings, etc. English behaves 'as if' it were the second and official language in Israel..
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