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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Visual History of Israel by Arthur Szyk, 1948 Part of a series on the History of Israel Early history Prehistoric Levant Kebaran Mushabian Natufian Harifian Yarmukian Lodian Nizzanim Ghassulian Canaan Retjenu Habiru Shasu Late Bronze Age collapse Ancient Israel and Judah Iron Age I Israelites ...
The name "Israel" first appears in the Merneptah Stele c. 1208 BCE: "Israel is laid waste and his seed is no more." [25] This "Israel" was a cultural and probably political entity, well enough established for the Egyptians to perceive it as a possible challenge, but an ethnic group rather than an organized state. [26]
Israel, [a] officially the State of Israel, [b] is a country in West Asia. It is situated in the Southern Levant of the Middle East ; and shares borders with 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. [ 21 ]
The Bible portrays Israel and Judah as the successors of an earlier United Kingdom of Israel, although its historicity is disputed. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] Historians and archaeologists agree that the northern Kingdom of Israel existed from ca. 900 BCE [ 1 ] : 169–195 [ 34 ] and that the Kingdom of Judah existed from ca. 700 BCE. [ 2 ]
The modern state of Israel was founded in May 1948 in the aftermath of the Holocaust and Second World War but the conflict that has raged between Israelis and Palestinians since can be traced back ...
Egypt and Israel signed the Egypt–Israel peace treaty under the framework of the Camp David Accords at the White House. 1980: 24 February: The old Israeli shekel replaced the Israeli pound as the currency of Israel. 30 July: The Knesset passed the Jerusalem Law, asserting that Jerusalem was and would remain the undivided capital of Israel ...
A 4-year-old accidentally knocked over and shattered a 3,500-year-old Bronze Age jar during a visit to the Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa in Israel on Friday.. The museum said the ...
Israel's second application was rejected by the Security Council on 17 December 1948 by a 5-to-1 vote, with 5 abstentions. ... First South Asian nation to establish ...