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State of Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia, situated at the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea. It shares land borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan on the east, the Palestinian territories (which are claimed by the State of Palestine and are partially controlled by Israel) comprising the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively, and Egypt to the southwest. It contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel's financial center is Tel Aviv, while Jerusalem is both its self-designated, though unrecognised by the United Nations, capital and the most populous individual city under the country's governmental administration. Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem is internationally disputed.
On 29 November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly recommended the adoption and implementation of the Partition Plan for Mandatory Palestine. This UN plan specified borders for new Arab and Jewish states and also specified an area of Jerusalem and its environs which was to be administered by the UN under an international regime. The end of the British Mandate for Palestine was set for midnight on 14 May 1948. That day, David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the Zionist Organization and president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared "the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel," which would start to function from the termination of the mandate. The borders of the new state were not specified in the declaration. Neighboring Arab armies invaded the former Palestinian mandate on the next day and fought the Israeli forces. Israel has since fought several wars with neighboring Arab states, in the course of which it has occupied the West Bank, Sinai Peninsula (1956–57, 1967–82), part of South Lebanon (1982–2000), Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. It extended its laws to the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem, but not the West Bank. Efforts to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict have not resulted in peace. However, peace treaties between Israel and both Egypt and Jordan have successfully been signed. Israel’s occupation of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem is the world's longest military occupation in modern times.
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Aljazeera.com
January 2, 2019
"The plan also includes preventing members of the Knesset [Israel's parliament] from visiting Palestinian detainees," Erdan said.
Haaretz
January 2, 2019
A degree is a degree and it doesn't matter where you got it, some say. Not true, according to a study the Bank of Israel published onÃâà...
Axios
January 2, 2019
During their meeting in Brasilia on Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to make aÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 2018
The latest evidence is that the growth in Israel's population of employed grew at an average rate of 2% from a year earlier in the six monthsÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 2018
ASHDOD, Israel — As dusk fell in a port city in southern Israel, Roman Kaminker's neighborhood pop-up shop twinkled with a bountiful displayÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 2018
At least 10 asylum seekers from the Democratic Republic of Congo have received deportation notices even though the Interior Ministry hadÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 2018
As part of the Jewish revival in the Land of Israel, the state has made sure to appropriate prominent Jews throughout history and laud theirÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
December 31, 2018
Israeli High Court yesterday cancelled a petition filed by the National Democratic Assembly (Balad) in the Israeli Knesset against the NationÃâà...
New York Times
April 28, 2018
GAZA CITY — For weeks, Palestinians protesting along the fence between Gaza and Israel have conjured up the idea of swarming across the barrier, a mass of tens of thousands of people too numerous for Israeli soldiers to arrest or even to shoot. And Israelis have been worrying aloud about what theirÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 28, 2018
Israel Katz, who runs both the Intelligence and Transportation ministries, spoke in a Reuters interview after North Korea's Kim Jong Un and South Korean ... The 2015 Iran Nuclear agreement, which Israel's government vehemently opposed, is in danger of unraveling should U.S. President Donald TrumpÃâà...
BBC News
April 28, 2018
Two staff members at a school in Israel have been arrested after 10 teenagers on a school trip were killed in flash floods in the south of the country. Those detained on suspicion of death by negligence include the principal of the Tel Aviv-based pre-military academy, Israeli media report. The nine femalesÃâà...
The Tennessean
April 28, 2018
A community festival will be held Sunday afternoon to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Israel, which was founded in May of 1948. Hosted by the Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, the free, public event is from 3 to 6 p.m. at Centennial Park at 2500 West End Ave in Nashville.
St. Louis Jewish Light
April 28, 2018
Jewish Student Union invites high school students in ninth through 12th grades to spend four weeks in Israel as part of JSU's The Anne Samson Jerusalem Journey. The Israel trip is for Jewish teens attending public and private non-Jewish high schools. Supported by the Harvey L. Miller Family Foundation,Ãâà...
Haaretz
April 28, 2018
The lifeless bodies of two Palestinian children were found Friday as rain and flooding continued to take a devastating toll in the West Bank and Israel, where a group of ten young people died after being caught in a flash flood in the south. The two Palestinian children were found in a reservoir that flooded inÃâà...
Business Insider
April 28, 2018
... between Israeli and Iranian forces is increasingly likely in Syria, according to Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis. Mattis met with his Israeli counterpart, Avigdor Liberman, at the Pentagon. Mattis said he saw no reason for Iran to ship advanced missiles to Hezbollah through Syria except to threaten Israel.
International Paralympic Committee
April 28, 2018
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has announced that the 2019 World Team Cup, the ITF's flagship wheelchair tennis team event, will be hosted by the Israel Tennis Association (ITA) at the Larry and Mary Greenspon Israel Tennis Centre in Ramat Hasharon from 13-18 May 2019. This is the first timeÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 28, 2018
Romania's President Klaus Iohannis demanded Prime Minister Viorica Dancila resign, over a reported dispute on the plan to move the country's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. "Mrs Dancila cannot cope with the office of Prime Minister of Romania and turns the Government into vulnerability for Romania,"Ãâà...
Al-Monitor
April 26, 2018
Israel is officially encouraging donor states to mobilize for Gaza's reconstruction, fearing that a deeper humanitarian crisis in the enclave will result in an escalation of violence in the region. Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Tzahi Hanegbi and Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, head of Coordination of GovernmentÃâà...
Cleveland Jewish News
April 26, 2018
The Jewish Federation of Cleveland will continue celebrating the 70th anniversary of the establishment of Israel from noon to 5 p.m. on May 6 with IsraelFest!, an outdoor family-friendly event at the Mandel Jewish Community Center Safran Park in Beachwood. IsraelFest! will feature activities and games,Ãâà...
New York Magazine
April 26, 2018
Meanwhile, Israel reneged on an agreement with the United Nations to grant legal status to 40,000 African asylum-seekers (whom the Netanyahu government had previously intended to jail en masse or deport), leaving those long-suffering refugees in a state of limbo. And then, Natalie Portman didÃâà...
Haaretz
April 26, 2018
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Tuesday that Israel may strike the Russian-made S-300 anti-aircraft defense systems in Syria if they are used against Israel. "One thing should be clear - if someone fires on our planes, we will destroy them," Lieberman said in an interview with the Israeli websiteÃâà...
Cleveland Jewish News
April 26, 2018
However, it's easy for camp directors to get stuck in camp's bubble, according to Aliza Goodman, head of professional development and experiential education at The iCenter for Israel Education in Northbrook, Illinois. Israel @ Camp, a 20-month two-summer program, aims to help these camps consider theÃâà...
The Boston Globe
April 26, 2018
A silver lining is appearing on the horizon. As Israel celebrates its 70th year of independence, an increasing number of our Sunni and Mediterranean neighbors are not only reconciling themselves to our presence, but are actively projecting that they view us as part of the solution. This trend has not beenÃâà...
Haaretz
April 26, 2018
The loss officially made him one of the leading oracles of the dwindling left-wing camp, for it's well known that in Israel the only thing people understand are catastrophes, which are perceived as profound and authentic. The default here is to speak the language of sadness. If Grossman had won the lotteryÃâà...
CBS News
April 26, 2018
UNITED NATIONS -- U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley condemned Thursday the militant group that controls the Gaza Strip of exploiting Palestinians as violence there continues unabated. "Hamas has exploited and endangered the very Palestinian people it claims to represent by locatingÃâà...
CNN
April 26, 2018
The Israeli teenagers were on a group hike in the Tzafit Valley near the southern Dead Sea when severe storms hit the area, causing flash floods. The youths were students at the Bnei Zion pre-military academy in central Israel. Eight girls and one boy were among the dead, according to Magen David AdomÃâà...
Al-Monitor
April 24, 2018
Amos Yadlin, the former head of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Military Intelligence Directorate, said in an interview published April 22, “I have not seen a May this dangerous since May 1967.” Of particular note, two of the five military fronts concerning Israel have rapidly escalated in recent months. In theÃâà...
The New Arab
April 24, 2018
Comment: Israel has historically enjoyed the bipartisan support of the US, but sympathies are changing and the era of unconditional political support is coming to an end, writes CJ Werleman.
The Guardian
April 24, 2018
Palestinian diplomats in Geneva have filed a complaint against Israel for what they say are breaches of its obligations under a UN anti-racism treaty, triggering what may be a lengthy and high-profile investigation. The complaint, handed in by the Palestinian ambassador to the UN, Ibrahim Khraishi, to theÃâà...
Haaretz
April 24, 2018
If Egypt agrees to Israel's request, it won't be the worst thing that Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has done, but he'll be depicted as under the control of the Jews. If Egypt turns down the request, to where will Education Minister Naftali Bennett and the Goldin family bring their demand to condition Batsh's burial on theÃâà...
Haaretz
April 24, 2018
The Israel Heart Society says the reason for the drop in heart attacks over the past decade is because 82 percent of such patients undergo cardiac catheterization procedure within hours of the appearance of the signs of the heart attack. These numbers have been on the rise over the past 10 years in Israel,Ãâà...
Vox
April 24, 2018
Natalie Portman, one of the most famous Jewish celebrities on the planet, just announced she was boycotting a major Israeli event. Portman was scheduled to travel to Jerusalem to receive the Genesis Prize, a prominent award sometimes referred to as the “Jewish Nobel.” On Friday, she abruptly canceledÃâà...
Anchorage Daily News
April 21, 2018
Left-leaning think tank Brookings Institute said in a blog post this week that "the countdown to the next round of military conflict between Israel and Iran has begun" following the recent attack on Syrian chemical weapons facilities by the U.S., France and England. Israel reportedly targeted and destroyed anÃâà...
Deadline
April 21, 2018
Like many Israelis and Jews around the world, I can be critical of the leadership in Israel without wanting to boycott the entire nation. I treasure my Israeli friends and family, Israeli food, books, art, cinema, and dance. Israel was created exactly 70 years ago as a haven for refugees from the Holocaust. But theÃâà...
New York Times
April 21, 2018
TEL AVIV — Sometime in the mid-1990s, I bade farewell to the Gaza Strip. In thrall to the great illusion, sweet and dizzying, that were the 1993 Oslo peace accords, I was sure that Gaza was about to be liberated from Israel's occupation. The fate of that stretch of land mattered to me very much. There wereÃâà...
Haaretz
April 20, 2018
“That's the truth about Austria. By nature the Austrian is a National Socialist and a Catholic through and through, however hard he tries not to be. In this country and this nation Catholicism and National Socialism have always been in balance – now more National Socialist, now more Catholic, but never justÃâà...
Variety
April 20, 2018
Seventy years after it established statehood in 1948, modern Israel is a country wrapped up in contradictions, a place where the same person who barges ahead of you in line will invite you over for dinner. And he'll mean it, and you'll go. (“Sabra,” a prickly pear-like fruit, is a word often used to describeÃâà...
Haaretz
April 19, 2018
On May 14, 1948, the day Israel gained its independence, Tamar Eshel was out of the country – and eating her heart out, as she recounts. “I thought it was unjust that finally there was a state of Israel and I was away in France,” says the former Israeli diplomat and politician. “But in those days, you didn'tÃâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
April 19, 2018
As the dust settles following last weekend's U.S.-French-British attack on Syrian chemical weapons facilities, the countdown to the next round of military conflict between Israel and Iran has begun. Last week, Israel once again targeted the T-4 (Tiyas) base in Syria, which houses Iranian drone forces, killing 7Ãâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
April 19, 2018
For the Jewish people in the context of our historical roots in the Land of Israel, 70 years is a mere spec on the monitor, too. A point evidenced just this week when, during a school archaeological outing in the Galilee, students unearthed among other artefacts a 1,400-year-old lamp engraved with an ancientÃâà...
Haaretz
April 19, 2018
From the earliest days of the state, images of women have played a central role in Israeli myth-making: from shapely girls in shorts tilling the kibbutz fields and fearless female soldiers wielding guns, to the nation's iconic fourth prime minister, Golda Meir, holding forth at high-level government meetings.
Snopes.com
April 18, 2018
Clinton Email: We Must Destroy Syria For Israel. […] “The best way to help Israel deal with Iran's growing nuclear capability is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad,” Clinton forthrightly starts off by saying. Even though all US intelligence reports had long dismissed Iran's “atomÃâà...
גלובס
April 17, 2018
Catz is visiting Israel at a very turbulent period in the enterprise computing market. Industry sources said that Oracle had recently been conducting an aggressive campaign to recruit personnel and customers for its cloud product, which is competing head-to-head against Amazon's Web (cloud computing)Ãâà...
Haaretz
April 17, 2018
According to the Environmental Protection Ministry's Clean Coast Index, in 2015 about two-thirds of the beaches in Israel were ranked between moderately and very dirty. In a cleanup operation initiated by the Jewish National Fund together with the international organization Clean Up The World, 100,000Ãâà...
Haaretz
April 17, 2018
Let's be clear: The strike in Syria was not motivated by geopolitical reasons, but by ethical norms. This strike was about defending “the values and ideals that our nation represents,” said the Pentagon spokeswoman. Bashar Assad violated the norms regarding chemical weapons, norms that were enshrinedÃâà...
Haaretz
April 17, 2018
To really understand Israel and the Middle East - subscribe to Haaretz. “Tel Aviv will be punished for its aggressive action,” Bahram Ghassemi, the spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry, told reporters. "The occupying Zionist regime will, sooner or later, receive an appropriate response to its actions.".
New York Times
April 17, 2018
The somber, annual Memorial Day ceremony will take place a day before the celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of Israel's foundation, according to the Hebrew calendar — and it took nearly that long to create the country's first national pantheon. Adjacent to the national military cemetery on MountÃâà...
New York Times
April 16, 2018
SYRIA-ISRAEL BORDER, Golan Heights — Stop me if you've heard this one before: Syria is going to explode. I know, you have heard that one before, but this time I mean really explode. Because the U.S., British and French attack on Syria to punish its regime for its vile use of chemical weapons — andÃâà...
Above the Law
April 2, 2018
Cue Israel, which is an agricultural superpower already and has a great green thumb for cannabis cultivation. Why? Mainly because Israel is leading the globe when it comes to legitimate cannabis research on medical applications for serious illnesses. While the U.S. dabbles with adult-use cannabisÃâà...
גלובס
April 2, 2018
Israel's government has canceled its plans to forcibly expel an estimated 38,000 African refugees and asylum seekers after reaching an unprecedented agreement with the United Nations High Commissioner. Under the terms of the agreement, the UN will work to find Western countries to take in at leastÃâà...
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