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In 2008, Indonesia signed a medical cooperation agreement with Israel's national emergency medical service worth US$200,000. [34]According to the report from The Times of Israel in 2012, Indonesia agreed to informally upgrade its relations with Israel and to open a consulate in Ramallah, headed by a diplomat with the rank of ambassador, who also would have unofficially served as his country's ...
Indonesian first Vice president Mohammad Hatta with Haj Amin al-Husseini and other Arab leaders c. 1947–1951.. The earliest visit to Palestine by an Indonesian independence activist was in 1931, when Abdoel Kahar Moezakir represented the Indonesian muslims at the World Islamic Congress in Jerusalem led by Mufti Amin Al-Husseini.
The official number of Arab and part-Arab descent in Indonesia was recorded since 19th century. The census of 1870 recorded a total of 12,412 Arab Indonesians (7,495 living in Java and Madura and the rest in other islands). By 1900, the total number of Arabs citizens increased to 27,399, then 44,902 by 1920, and 71,335 by 1930. [5]
Many Arab-Jewish immigrants have settled in New York City and formed a Sephardi community. The community is centered in Brooklyn and is primarily composed of Syrian Jews. Other Arab Jews in New York City hail from Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, and Morocco. [38] Arab Jews first began arriving in New York City in large numbers between 1880 and 1924.
This is a list of wars and other major military engagements involving Israel.Since its declaration of independence in May 1948, the State of Israel has fought various wars with its neighbouring Arab states, two major Palestinian Arab uprisings known as the First Intifada and the Second Intifada (see Israeli–Palestinian conflict), and a broad series of other armed engagements rooted in the ...
Israel increased settlement construction in the West Bank, but withdrew from Gaza in 2005. After Hamas came to power in Gaza, Israel began to tighten the Gaza blockade, with Egypt's assistance from 2008 onward. [1] A rapprochement between Israel and Sunni Arab states took place in the 2010s due to their shared fear of Shiite Iran and its ...
The Arab states proclaimed their aim of a "United State of Palestine" [22] in place of Israel and an Arab state. The Arab Higher Committee said, that in the future Palestine, the Jews will be no more than 1/7 of the population. i.e. only Jews that lived in Palestine before the British mandate.
A large part of Mandate-period Arab Palestinians remained within Israel's borders following the 1948 exodus and are the largest group of Arabic-speaking and culturally Arab citizens of Israel. The vast majority of the Arab citizens of Israel are Sunni Muslim, while 9% of them are Christian, [30] and 7.1% of them are Druze. [31] As of 2013, the ...