Return to the top of Prophecy Fulfilled: Israel Becomes A Nation In 1948, Return to the End Times Bible Prophecy Website Homepage. The Book of Joshua and the accounts of the kingship of David and Solomon in the book of Kings are believed to have the same author. [71], During the late 7th century BCE, Judah became a vassal state of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. ), The Ghetto of Venice by Riccardo Calimani, pg 94, Mondadori 1995, Joel Rappel, History of Eretz Israel from Prehistory up to 1882 (1980), vol. Ports were destroyed and various materials were dumped to make them inoperable. LIVE Q&A for February 4, 2021. The Mauritian Shekel: The Story of Jewish Detainees in Mauritius, 1940-1945 by Genevive Pitot, Rowman 2000, Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism: Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany by Anna Holian Michigan 2011 pp 1812. Shapira Anita. Jewish people did not have a country of their own. [216], During the interwar period, the perception grew that there was an irreconciliable tension between the two Mandatory functions, of providing for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and the goal of preparing the country for self-determination. The Lavon affair led to Sharett's resignation and Ben-Gurion returned to the post of prime minister. In 1968, compulsory education was extended until the age of 16 for all citizens (it had been 14) and the government embarked on an extensive program of integration in education. The most famous of these was Judah haNasi, who is credited with compiling the final version of the Mishnah (a massive body of Jewish religious texts interpreting the Bible) and with strengthening the educational demands of Judaism by requiring that illiterate Jews be treated as outcasts. It has been alleged that the French also agreed to build a nuclear plant for the Israelis and that by 1968 this was able to produce nuclear weapons. Beyond nuclear capabilities, the country is equipped with state-of-the-art defense technology. [311] In 1972 the US Jewish Mafia leader, Meyer Lansky, who had taken refuge in Israel, was deported to the United States. Despite facing so many other countries, Israel was able to build a state-of-the-art military because of support from outside countries and the financial contributions of wealthy citizens. In February 1996 Rabin's successor, Shimon Peres, called early elections. On 12 July, Hezbollah attacked Israel from Lebanon, shelled Israeli towns and attacked a border patrol, taking two dead or badly wounded Israeli soldiers. Britain and France arranged for Israel to give them a pretext for seizing the Suez Canal. Hundreds of thousands of Jews are killed. Zionism continued to gain support in the early 1900s in Jewish communities around Europe. Israel carried out Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip from 27 December 2008 to 18 January 2009 in response to rocket attacks from Hamas militants,[353] leading to a decrease of Palestinian rocket attacks. The Arab-Israeli War grants Egypt control of Gaza. [197] The British also hoped to secure American Jewish support for US intervention on Britain's behalf. Israel had paid for the boats but the French had refused to supply them. The agreement allowed the PLO leadership to relocate to the occupied territories and granted autonomy to the Palestinians with talks to follow regarding final status. 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He was also the chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD , saying, Stand in the gate of the LORD 's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD , all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD . After this election, the system of directly electing the Premier was abandoned. In a surprise result, the Likud led by Menachem Begin won 43 seats in the 1977 elections (Labour got 32 seats). [386] This election again looked to result in deadlock, but due to the worsening COVID-19 pandemic, Netanyahu, and Blue and White leader, Benny Gantz, were able to establish a unity government with a planned rotating prime ministership where Netanyahu would serve first and later be replaced by Gantz. The Zionist Union alliance came second with 24 seats. Nationwide lockdowns and mask mandates were present throughout the country for much of 2020 into 2021, with the vaccination campaign beginning in December 2020 along with green passes. By any measure, this was a significant event, and it has ramifications for biblical eschatology.Some students of the Bible have used the re-formation of Israel to set an "end-times clock" leading up to the second coming of Christ. Rapture Refuted! Israel's 1948 nationhood does not fulfill - Bible In March 1976 there was a massive strike by Israeli-Arabs in protest at a government plan to expropriate land in the Galilee. In 1976, the ongoing Lebanese Civil War led Israel to allow South Lebanese to cross the border and work in Israel. God and the Nation of Israel | ChristianCourier.com Residents were given permanent residency status and the option of applying for Israeli citizenship. The currency (known as the old Israeli shekel) was replaced and renamed the Israeli new shekel at a rate of 1,000 old shkalim = 1 new shekel. The Sinai oil fields made Israel self-sufficient in energy. Chronicle of a territorial dispute". As the Yishuv grew, the JNC adopted more government-type functions, such as education, health care and security. David Ben-Gurion reorganized the Haganah and made conscription obligatory. On 2 April 1947, the United Kingdom requested that the question of Palestine be handled by the General Assembly. We are living in the Golden Age of Jewish baseball, and the evidence - as with almost every proof in sports - is in the numbers: 16 Jews appeared in a Major League game last year. These incidents led Israel to initiate the Second Lebanon War, which lasted through August 2006. Israel Becomes A Nation -End Times Bible Prophecy Gregorian Calendar: A.D. 14 May 1948 The goal was to prevent attacks from the sea, given the fear of the return of the Crusaders. A demand for a ceasefire was reluctantly accepted on 7 November. [84], The Bible describes tension between the returnees, the elite of the First Temple period,[85] and those who had remained in Judah. The Kingdom of Judah was smaller but more stable; the Davidic dynasty ruled the kingdom for the four centuries of its existence, with the capital always in Jerusalem, controlling the Judaean Mountains, most of the Shephelah and the Beersheba valley in the northern Negev.[51]. The late 19th century saw the widespread consolidation of a Jewish nationalist movement known as Zionism, as part of which aliyah (Jewish return to the Land of Israel from the diaspora) increased. In 537 B.C., the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylon and issued a decree for the Jews to return to their land and rebuild the Temple. Immigrants were mostly refugees with no money or possessions and many were housed in temporary camps known as ma'abarot. [97][98][99][100] Some scholars argue that the Hasmonean dynasty institutionalized the final Jewish biblical canon. The capital city of Israel is Jerusalem, and its financial hub is Tel Aviv. Nasser, the Arabs, and 'Sawt al-Arab' Radio", "Forgotten Gas Attacks in Yemen Haunt Syria Crisis", "30 years to the Black Panthers in Israel", "Israel in shock as Munich killers freed", "Kurt Waldheim, Former U.N. Chief, Is Dead at 88", "Israeli-Ugandan Relations in the Time of Idi Amin", "Terrorists: L'Affaire Daoud: Too Hot to Handle", "Foreign Aid: An Introduction to U.S. Programs and Policy", "Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? Begin actively supported Gush Emunim's efforts to settle the West Bank and Jewish settlements in the occupied territories received government support, thus laying the grounds for intense conflict with the Palestinian population of the occupied territories. A Jewish Legion composed largely of Zionist volunteers organized by Ze'ev Jabotinsky and Joseph Trumpeldor participated in the British invasion. The growing separation between Israel and the "Palestinian Territories" led to a labour shortage in Israel, mainly in the construction industry. The final text of the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) is thought to have been written during the Persian period (probably 450350 BCE). Between 1963 and 1967 Egyptian troops had tested chemical weapons on Yemenite civilians as part of an Egyptian intervention in support of rebels.[306]. [390] In June 2022, following several legislative defeats for the governing coalition, Bennett announced the introduction of a bill to dissolve the Knesset and call for new elections to be held in November. 900 BCE[43][44] and the Kingdom of Judah existed by ca. Pastor Chuck Smith had a specific teaching on this in the 1970s. In response to Cypriot fears that the Jews would never leave (since they lacked a state or documentation) and because the 75,000 quota established by the 1939 White Paper had never been filled, the British allowed the refugees to enter Palestine at a rate of 750 per month. When, as expected, the Egyptians refused, Anglo-French forces would invade to take control of the Canal. Every Jewish man and woman in the country had to receive military training. The Iron Dome is a defense system that destroys 80-90% of incoming short-range rockets targeted at cities like Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv. Thus, perhaps when we see the events of the 70th Week definitively taking place, we will know that Israel's final deliverance and glorious "budding" is near (24:33). 37 - Herod the Great is made King of Israel by Rome. The gospel is still God's power to save both Jew and Greek (Rom. Jeremiah 7:1-34 KJV; The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD The Syrian and Egyptian armies launched a well-planned surprise attack against the unprepared Israeli Defense Forces. Under the treaty, Israel returned the Sinai peninsula to Egypt in April 1982. For the first time since the end of the British Mandate, Jews could visit the Old City of Jerusalem and pray at the Western Wall (the holiest site in Judaism), to which they had been denied access by the Jordanians in contravention of the 1949 Armistice agreement. [72][73] As a punishment, the Babylonians besieged Jerusalem in 597 BCE, and the city surrendered. Will the generation that saw Israel re-formed as a nation still be In the Late Bronze Age there was a period of civilizational collapse in the Middle East,[21] Canaan fell into chaos, and Egyptian control ended. Jews in Libya, Egypt, Cyprus and Mesopotamia fought against Rome. [203], The Balfour declaration was published on the 2nd of November 1917 and the Bolsheviks seized control of Russia a week later. This is due largely to the circumstances surrounding Israel's creation, the end result of several intersecting movements, events and political developments of the 20th century. By the 2006 election the system was abandoned. Half the world's Jews lived in the Russian Empire, where they were restricted to living in the Pale of Settlement. [72][77] A few years later, Zedekiah launched another revolt against Babylon, and an army was sent to conquer Jerusalem. The Land of Israel (Hebrew: ), also referred to as the Holy Land or as Palestine, is the birthplace of the Jewish people and Judaism.It is where the Hebrews and Israelites established and developed Israel and Judah, and is also thought to be the region of development for the completed form of the Hebrew Bible; Jews, alongside the Samaritan people, are accredited . Based on the Bar Kokhba revolt coinage, the independent Jewish state was named "Israel". No actual peace agreements were signed. Arab nationalism opposed this design, asserting Arab rights over the former Ottoman territories and seeking to prevent Jewish migration. In the late 18th century a local Arab sheikh Zahir al-Umar created a de facto independent Emirate in the Galilee. e.g. In 1925 the Jewish Agency established the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Technion (technological university) in Haifa. [337], In July 2000, Aryeh Deri was sentenced to 3 years in prison for bribe taking. By 1952, over 200,000 immigrants were living in tents or prefabricated shacks built by the government. [133] Over the next centuries, more Jews left to communities in the Diaspora, especially the large, speedily growing Jewish communities in Babylonia and Arabia. Israeli forces, commanded by General Moshe Dayan, attacked Egypt on 29 October 1956. [251] The General Assembly created a committee, United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), to report on "the question of Palestine". [349], In June 2007 Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in the course of the Battle of Gaza,[350] seizing government institutions and replacing Fatah and other government officials with its own. State funding was introduced for elected parties. Mehmet Tezcan, Astiye Bayindir, 'Aristocratic Women and their Relationship to Nestorianism in the 13th century Chingizid Empire,' in Li Tang, Dietmar W. Winkler (eds. Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful. The Arab League reacted to the peace treaty by suspending Egypt from the organization and moving its headquarters from Cairo to Tunis. These books were not part of the sacred Jewish canon and the Hebrew originals were lost (Greek translations survived). [366], Benjamin Netanyahu was elected Prime Minister again after the Likud Yisrael Beiteinu alliance won the most seats (31) in the 2013 legislative election and formed a coalition government with secular centrist Yesh Atid party (19), rightist The Jewish Home (12) and Livni's Hatnuah (6), excluding Haredi parties. A spate of suicide bombings reinforced the Likud position for security. In 1951 Iraqi Jews were granted temporary permission to leave the country and 120,000 (over 90%) opted to move to Israel. Israel's solution to diplomatic isolation was to establish good relations with newly independent states in Africa[286] and with France, which was engaged in the Algerian War. In 2001, with the Peace Process increasingly in disarray, Ehud Barak called a special election for Prime Minister. At about the same time Yitzhak Shamir escaped from the camp in Eritrea where the British were holding Lehi activists without trial, taking command of the Lehi (Stern Gang). [325] It also recommended that he never again be allowed to hold the post (it did not forbid him from being Prime Minister). In early 1969, Levi Eshkol died in office of a heart attack and Golda Meir became Prime Minister with the largest percentage of the vote ever won by an Israeli party, winning 56 of the 120 seats after the 1969 election. The left Zionist party Meretz won 12 seats, and the Arab and communist parties a further 5, meaning that parties supporting a peace treaty had a full (albeit small) majority in the Knesset. Israel's recent attempts to permanently annex portions of the West Bank have only worsened tensions between Israel and the Arab world. Several Samaritan Revolts erupted. Under the Mamluks, the area was a province of Bilad a-Sham (Syria). Ezra 3:1 (NLT). Of the sons of Abraham, He set aside Ishmael and chose Isaac. The riots led to right-wing Zionists establishing their own militia in 1931, the Irgun Tzvai Leumi (National Military Organization, known in Hebrew by its acronym "Etzel"), which was committed to a more aggressive policy towards the Arab population. Three days later, Israeli forces crossed into Lebanon beginning Operation Litani. by Jonathan Israel, chapter 1 Exodus from the West (page 25), The Jews of Spain by Jane Gerber, Free Press 1994 pp 138 - 144 / Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews by David Martin Gitlitz, University of New Mexico 2002, pp 75 - 81, The Jews of Spain by Jane Gerber, Free Press 1994 pp 142 - 144, The Jewish-Christian Encounter in Medieval Preaching, Routledge 2015, edited by Jonathan Adams and Jussi Hanska chapter 13, see page 297. European countries were not willing to give up any of their lands for the Jewish cause. Archeologists have debated whether the united monarchy ever existed,[Notes 1][38][39] but recent evidence suggests that a polity ruled by David and Solomon did exist. [354][bettersourceneeded], In the 2009 legislative election Likud won 27 seats and Kadima 28; however, the right-wing camp won a majority of seats, and President Shimon Peres called on Netanyahu to form the government. Though the real political maneuvers which fostered the creation of Israel took place in the 20th century, the movement of Jewish people back to the Holy Land began even earlier. Rudolph Kastner, a minor political functionary, was accused of collaborating with the Nazis and sued his accuser. In the late Middle Bronze Age, the Nile Delta in Egypt was settled by Canaanites who maintained close connections with Canaan. [290] The plan failed when eleven agents were arrested. In 2004, the Black Hebrews were granted permanent residency in Israel. Great Depression Facts & Impact | What Caused the Great Depression? A small number of Jews, such as the Rothschild family, achieved extraordinary wealth and notoriety. Nothing could be further from the truth. Defense Minister Lavon was blamed despite his denial of responsibility. [90] After a century of Ptolemaic rule, eventually Judea became part of the Seleucid Empire in 200 BCE at the battle of Panium (fought near Banias on the Golan Heights). When the house of Jacob went to Egypt, they were given the land of Goshen to settle ( Genesis 45:10 ). He started with the year 1948, when Israel was restored as a nation. [113][114][115][116], From 115 to 117, tensions and attacks on Jews around the Roman Empire led to a massive Jewish uprising against Rome. In the 13th century, the Land of Israel became subject to the Mongol invasions and conquests, though these were locally routed by the Mamluk Sultanate, under whose rule it remained until the 16th century. [204][205] Between 1919 and 1923, some 40,000 Jews arrived in Palestine in what is known as the Third Aliyah. Most felt that many Palestinians viewed the peace treaty with Israel as a temporary measure only. Immediately following the declaration of the new state, both superpower leaders, US President Harry S. Truman and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, recognized the new state. Judaism's Temple-based sects, most notably the Sadducees, vanished. In Hebron, Jews were banned from worshipping at the Cave of the Patriarchs (the second-holiest site in Judaism); they were only allowed to enter 7 steps inside the site[174] and the ban remained in place until Israel assumed control of the West Bank in the Six Days War. [200] A year prior, in 1917, the British foreign minister, Arthur Balfour, sent a public letter to the British Lord Rothschild, a leading member of his party and leader of the Jewish community. There were attempts to force orthodox Yemenite children to adopt a secular life style by teachers, including many instances of Yemenite children having their side-curls cut by teachers. Sadat recognized Israel's right to exist and established the basis for direct negotiations between Egypt and Israel. Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq signed defence pacts and Iraqi troops began deploying to Jordan, Syria and Egypt. There were no other religious settlements until after 1974. Within a month, Italian planes bombed Tel Aviv and Haifa, inflicting multiple casualties. In the first half of the 20th century, the Zionist movement continued to gain support amongst Jews and non-Jews alike. Later that year, the Israeli electoral system was changed to allow for direct election of the prime minister. Many of these same Jews believed in Zionism: the belief that the Jewish people should return to the Holy Land and establish a Judaism-centered state. Testimonies by Holocaust survivors at the trial and the extensive publicity that surrounded it has led the trial to be considered a turning point in public awareness of the Holocaust.[293]. NYU Press, pp. [135] There are only a few reliable historical accounts that suggest so, but they refer to individuals rather than entire villages.
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