• Upon its independence, Israel became almost immediately embroiled in conflict with its five neighboring Arab states, whose armies began entering the area of the former Mandatory Palestine on 15 May, starting the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. (wikipedia.org)
  • During both stages of the 1948 Palestine war, over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs were expelled from or fled Israeli territory to Jordanian-ruled West Bank, Egyptian-controlled Gaza, and the neighboring Arab countries, with fewer than 150,000 Palestinian Arabs remaining within Israel. (wikipedia.org)
  • Israel has since effectively annexed both East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, and has established settlements across the Israeli-occupied territories, actions the international community has rejected as illegal under international law. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel has signed peace treaties with Egypt, returning the Sinai Peninsula, and with Jordan, and more recently normalized relations with several Arab countries, though efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have not succeeded. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the early weeks of independence, the government chose the term "Israeli" to denote a citizen of Israel, with the formal announcement made by Minister of Foreign Affairs Moshe Sharett. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since Israel occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank in 1967, Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah have been continuously targeted by Israeli authorities, who use discriminatory laws to systematically dispossess Palestinians of their land and homes for the benefit of Jewish Israelis. (amnesty.org)
  • An Israeli foreign ministry official said Israel had "conveyed its displeasure and concern to Egypt" about the opening of the Rafah crossing. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Israel is cutting back on vital fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip due to near daily rocket fire from Palestinian militants into Israeli border towns. (npr.org)
  • Since Israel cannot make up its mind about the status of Judea and Samaria, why should anyone agree to any Jewish Israeli claims? (ynetnews.com)
  • Hence, Israeli governments created this trap, a no-win situation directed by the architects of the Oslo Agreements and perpetuated by Israeli government since, based on the delusion that the conflict between Israel and the Arabs is primarily territorial - not existential. (ynetnews.com)
  • The proper way to begin to understand the "Israeli-Palestinian problem" is to recognize that Israel is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the United States government. (counterpunch.org)
  • The current mindset must change - Israeli politicians need to understand that an excellent higher education system, especially in Israel, is not a luxury but a necessity. (thedailybeast.com)
  • However, an Israeli reoccupation of Gaza would not be popular in Egypt, where decades of anti-Israeli propaganda have made any Egyptian cooperation with Israel automatically unpopular. (strategypage.com)
  • September 2, 2012: Israel and Egypt are feuding over Israeli attempts to pressure Germany into not building two Type 209 submarines for Egypt. (strategypage.com)
  • They again vowed they would not turn over four men wanted in the killing of the Israeli tourism minister and the man accused of arranging a weapons shipment seized by Israel in January. (baltimoresun.com)
  • Ever since Israel occupied the West Bank, Israeli settlements have been built. (lu.se)
  • The Israeli Society of Addiction Medicine, Ramat-Gan, Israel. (bvsalud.org)
  • Israeli Forum for Safe Spaces, Jerusalem, Israel. (bvsalud.org)
  • The British terminated the Mandate on 14 May 1948, and Israel declared independence that day. (wikipedia.org)
  • It raises international concern because it deviates from the 1948 Green Line that separates the West Bank and Israel proper, plunging into Palestinian territory to such an extent that it causes humanitarian and economic hardship and could make a future peace deal more difficult. (csmonitor.com)
  • In May 1948, Israel was officially declared an independent state with David Ben-Gurion , the head of the Jewish Agency, as the prime minister. (history.com)
  • From their very beginnings, and even long before the United Nations conferral of statehood in 1948, Jews in Israel have faced war, terror and extinction. (frontpagemag.com)
  • The Ottoman Empire had ruled the area for centuries until its collapse in World War I. A British Mandate governed the territory until 1948 by which time Israel had become a refuge for Jews fleeing persecution in Europe. (americamagazine.org)
  • Part of this is strategic: ever since Harry S. Truman, over the vigorous objections of the State Department, recognized the State of Israel 11 minutes after David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the state's existence in 1948, Israel and America have been in a strategic partnership. (americamagazine.org)
  • Many people feel that no matter what Israel will do, a large part of the world will turn on her," says Judith Baumel, a historian at Bar Ilan University outside Tel Aviv. (csmonitor.com)
  • A total of 161 cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis caused matics and Computation Division of the Ministry of Health by Leishmania tropica occurred in the Jerusalem district (Systematics Technologies Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel). (cdc.gov)
  • The segment "Kriget mellan Israel och Hamas: Detta betyder begreppen" (English translation: "The war between Israel and Hamas: This is what the concepts mean") was aired on SVT's morning show ("Morgonstudion") on 12 October, 2023 (at 7:36 am). (lu.se)
  • In August, it published a controversial "open letter for the people of Gaza" that condemned Israel in the strongest possible terms, but strikingly made no mention of Hamas' atrocities. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Israel has claimed the hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, includes a Hamas command center , an allegation denied by hospital officials and Hamas. (cnn.com)
  • The statement was released three hours before the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced a " precise and targeted operation " against Hamas in the area of the Al-Shifa Hospital. (cnn.com)
  • Israel believes it has given Hamas operatives sufficient time to cease their alleged activities inside the building, according to the statement. (cnn.com)
  • The truce between Israel and Hamas has continued for a fifth day, but it's looking increasingly fragile after both sides accused each other of violations. (channel4.com)
  • Israel claimed its forces captured a Hamas stronghold in northern Gaza after a 10-hour battle, during which they captured weapons and uncovered tunnel shafts, according to a statement. (cnn.com)
  • A total of 89 Ukrainian citizens have now been evacuated from the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his daily address Thursday. (cnn.com)
  • WESTERVELT: Since the militant Islamist group Hamas took over Gaza by force in mid-June, Israel has tightened its crossing points into the territory. (npr.org)
  • This is because the Palestinian side (Hamas, Fatah, it makes little difference) seeks only a One-State solution (on their maps, Israel is already drawn as a part of "Palestine"), and because a demilitarized Palestine would never actually "happen. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Hamas has obeyed a ceasefire with Israel and not fired rockets but refuses to shut down the smaller Islamic terror groups that continue attacks. (strategypage.com)
  • What Happens Next in the War Between Israel and Hamas? (lu.se)
  • CMES Director Karin Aggestam has been interviewed by Swedish news service Omni about what happens next in the Israel-Hamas war. (lu.se)
  • Israel is located in the Southern Levant, a region known historically as Canaan, the Land of Israel, Palestine and the Holy Land. (wikipedia.org)
  • When World War I ended in 1918 with an Allied victory, the 400-year Ottoman Empire rule ended, and Great Britain took control over what became known as Palestine (modern-day Israel, Palestine and Jordan). (history.com)
  • The British controlled Palestine until Israel, in the years following the end of World War II , became an independent state in 1947. (history.com)
  • Israel may have been born physically in what was once Palestine but it was born intellectually in the heart of the West. (americamagazine.org)
  • CMES Director Karin Aggestam has been interviewed on SVT (Swedish public service television) about the key concepts in the conflict between Israel and Palestine. (lu.se)
  • This is the idea that the conflict between Israel and Palestine can be solved through the establishment of a Palestinian state, existing alongside the state of Israel. (lu.se)
  • The initiative aims to improve Israel's image in the world through its association with the UWC movement as part of a larger effort to re-brand Israel, and shields Israel's continued negligence of its obligations under international law. (ipetitions.com)
  • While it's widely acknowledged that he has a chilly relationship with Netanyahu, Obama has maintained support for Israel's "Iron Dome" rocket defense system, and the administration is holding a huge joint military exercise with Israel this weekend. (politico.com)
  • Efforts to isolate, condemn and delegitimize Israel because of its policies in Judea and Samaria, therefore gain traction from Israel's silence or unwillingness to state clearly to whom this area belongs. (ynetnews.com)
  • The belief that in order to defend Israel's claim to its pre-1967 contours, Israel must concede all or most settlements, including (according to the international community) those in eastern Jerusalem and the Golan, undermines support for those settlements. (ynetnews.com)
  • Israel is vital to its plans, and therefore successive US governments have been willing to put up with Israel's enormities in regard to the Palestinian people. (counterpunch.org)
  • Yet in Israel, homosexuals openly serve in the army, same-sex couples get some benefits, the country markets itself as a gay-friendly tourist destination, and Jerusalem has an annual gay parade. (foxnews.com)
  • It does include citizens of East Jerusalem, which Israel illegally annexed and that the international community still considers occupied territory. (counterpunch.org)
  • While the trends for domestic and foreign tourists' overnight stays in Jerusalem are similar to those throughout the rest of Israel, the numbers are reversed: Although July 2019 was the month with the most overnight stays in Jerusalem by Israelis for the year to date, stays by locals numbered 111,000 (a 7% increase in contrast to 2018) while 295,000 stays by foreign tourists were recorded. (jpost.com)
  • L . tropica, Average annual incidence of CL in Israel (exclud- typically anthroponotic, is more common in suburbs and ing the Jerusalem district) increased from 0.95/100,000 in villages, although in hilly rural areas, mammals may act as 1999-2003 to 1.61/100,000 in 2004-2005 (RR 1.63). (cdc.gov)
  • Since September, more than 900 cases of measles have been reported in Israel, with about 700 cases in the cities of Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh. (cdc.gov)
  • She needed curative surgery at Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem and was required by Israel to obtain a permit to reach her hospital appointment. (who.int)
  • Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel. (bvsalud.org)
  • Oxygen - Harm Reduction Education, Jerusalem, Israel. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told CNN on Thursday "there has been a significant increase in terrorist attacks in Judea and Samaria with over 550 attempted attacks occurring since the beginning of the war. (cnn.com)
  • Palestinians from the Gaza Strip remain barred from entering Israel, and only rarely succeed at obtaining permits under extreme circumstances and following a tenuous process. (ipetitions.com)
  • Gaza Strip: A piece of land located between Egypt and modern-day Israel. (history.com)
  • Golan Heights: A rocky plateau between Syria and modern-day Israel. (history.com)
  • In response to the demonstrations in Sheikh Jarrah, thousands of Palestinians across Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) held their own protests in support of the families, and against their shared experience of fragmentation, dispossession, and segregation. (amnesty.org)
  • Amnesty International's new investigation shows that Israel imposes a system of oppression and domination against Palestinians across all areas under its control: in Israel and the OPT, and against Palestinian refugees, in order to benefit Jewish Israelis. (amnesty.org)
  • Amnesty is calling for Israel to end the international wrong, and crime, of apartheid, by dismantling measures of fragmentation, segregation, discrimination, and deprivation, currently in place against the Palestinian population. (amnesty.org)
  • Unlikely that Israel will make the concessions necessary to create a viable Palestinian State, the population trend is the only hope left for Palestinians in a land consumed by violence by both sides. (counterpunch.org)
  • This schizophrenic position has led to paralysis of thinking, self-destructive unilateral withdrawals and concessions that allowed the continuation of terrorism, the emergence of a quasi- Palestinian state, and Israel 's increasing isolation and de-legitimization. (ynetnews.com)
  • The Palestinian Authority, with its Fatah "security forces" being expertly trained by the U.S. military in Jordan, under American Lt. General Keith Dayton, also has exterminatory plans for Israel. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Israel has every legal right to forcibly confront the expected harms of both Iranian nuclear missile strikes, and Palestinian terror. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Mazel Tov to the Israelis who founded the State of Israel with a sense of responsibility to the Palestinian people (including the Palestinian Christians) who already lived on the land. (americamagazine.org)
  • An acknowledgment between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1993 that initiated a step-by-step process to reach a permanent peace agreement. (lu.se)
  • And, adding to the excitement, James Carville, President Clinton's former spinmeister, is advising Labor Party leader Ehud Barak on how to get Israel "unstuck," as the campaign slogan goes, from the mud into which Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu has plunged it. (csmonitor.com)
  • To learn more about the crime of apartheid in international law, what apartheid looks like in Israel/OPT, and how it affects Palestinians' lives, sign up to our course on Amnesty International's human rights education academy. (amnesty.org)
  • It could establish the rights of non-Jewish citizens within Israel and come to an agreement on a "law of return" for Palestinians and their families driven out of Israel fifty years ago. (counterpunch.org)
  • Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday the destruction of Israel was assured, while pledging to "defend Palestinians due to their heartfelt beliefs. (jpost.com)
  • It is not of course a matter of religion, the majority of Jews in Israel not being religious. (counterpunch.org)
  • As Americans travel to Israel for the Jewish holiday of Passover, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises all travelers to ensure they are protected from measles before departing, because of a measles outbreak in Israel. (cdc.gov)
  • The conflict today isn't about whether Israel should exist or not, but whether Israel should be allowed to keep the lands it occupied in 1967. (counterpunch.org)
  • The nation of Israel-with a population of more than 9 million people, most of them Jewish-has many important archaeological and religious sites considered sacred by Jews, Muslims and Christians alike, and a complex history with periods of peace and conflict. (history.com)
  • Earlier that year, in July 1999, Israel established its first project in Mauritania - an eye clinic operated by the Foreign Ministry's Center for International Cooperation (MASHAV). (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • From January 1 through July 31, 2019, some 14.7 million overnight stays by foreign tourists and vacationing Israelis were recorded in Israel, slightly more than the 14.3 million for the same period in 2018. (jpost.com)
  • The number of Israelis in the top 40 U.S computer science departments represents a third of the contingent of academics that remain in Israel. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Outbreak, Israel reported to the district health offi ce, and a weekly national report is published by the Department of Epidemiology, Is- raeli Ministry of Health ( 7 ). (cdc.gov)
  • In ancient times, the region was home to several Israelite and Jewish kingdoms, including Israel and Judah and Hasmonean Judea. (wikipedia.org)
  • In about 931 B.C., the area was divided into two kingdoms: Israel in the north and Judah in the south. (history.com)
  • The U.N. has denounced the rocket attacks but it has also warned Israel against punishing ordinary Gazans who are slipping deeper into poverty and isolation. (npr.org)
  • Israel warplanes hit four targets in Gaza, in response to rocket attacks yesterday. (strategypage.com)
  • That has not worked out so well and Gaza has become a base for Islamic terror groups who launch attacks (via rockets and mortars) into Israel and attacks using suicide bombs and gunmen into Egypt. (strategypage.com)
  • Aides said Sharon was referring to the creation of buffer zones between the West Bank and Israel to prevent terror attacks. (baltimoresun.com)
  • Across the border, Israel attacks them again. (bvsalud.org)
  • Impulse- Integrative Clinical Centre, Haifa, Israel. (bvsalud.org)
  • Results of search for 'su:{Israel. (who.int)
  • The outbreak has raised concern that Americans traveling to Israel for Passover, which is celebrated April 19â€"27, may be exposed to measles and could become ill if they have never had measles or have not been properly vaccinated. (cdc.gov)
  • For more information about the measles outbreak in Israel and measles precautions, please visit http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/contentMeasles.aspx. (cdc.gov)
  • It is surprising in the extreme to see self-styled "supporters of Israel" write rabid letters to editors in this country whenever the state of Israel or any of its government's policies are criticized. (counterpunch.org)
  • Without British Freemasonry there would be no modern state of Israel. (rense.com)
  • How, then, shall the State of Israel survive ? (frontpagemag.com)
  • The State of Israel celebrates its 60th birthday today. (americamagazine.org)
  • Additionally, the steering committee suggests that Israel provides visas to and regularly accepts visitors from most Muslim countries, with the exception of Syria, Lebanon and Iran. (ipetitions.com)
  • Israel is small country in the Middle East, about the size of New Jersey, located on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and bordered by Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. (history.com)
  • This summer, rapidly-developing Iranian-Syrian war plans against Israel from Lebanon that will involve Hezbollah proxies could add yet another decisive synergistic threat to the already-genocidal mix. (frontpagemag.com)
  • The United Nations and human rights organizations say that Israel unleashed about 4 million bomblets in southern Lebanon during the 34-day war against the militant Islamic group, and that up to 1 million of them failed to explode and now endanger civilians. (latimes.com)
  • The article seeks to exemplify the degree of trauma suffered by a young man in the bombing of the Shiite community committed by Israel in southern Lebanon in 2006. (bvsalud.org)
  • For more information on general travel precautions when traveling to Israel for Passover, please visit http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/contentIsraelPassover.aspx. (cdc.gov)
  • Both Hezbollah and Israel drew international criticism during the war for killing civilians. (latimes.com)
  • For groups such as the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Emergency Committee for Israel, as well as a vocal class of Israel-boosting GOP opinion leaders, the 2012 presidential election is an almost existential test of relevance. (politico.com)
  • Hospitals are protected in times of war under international humanitarian law, but Israel said in a statement that Hamas's "continued military use of the Shifa hospital jeopardizes its protected status. (cnn.com)
  • Israel has only allowed small numbers of residents to pass through its territory and into Egypt for humanitarian reasons. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Israel has protested to Egypt over the opening of a border crossing to allow Muslim pilgrims from Gaza to make their way through Egypt to Saudi Arabia. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Mauritania joins Egypt and Jordan as the only members of the Arab League to post ambassadors in Israel . (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • when their relatives were killed, maimed, arrested, prevented from accessing their land or reaching educational and health institutions, and discriminated in their own country as citizens of Israel. (ipetitions.com)
  • With these statistics in mind, you can bet the pressure will mount on Israel to expel its Arab citizens. (counterpunch.org)
  • If they really loved Israel and its people, as they profess, you'd think they would want to encourage a situation in which the citizens of Israel could live in peace with their neighbors and prosper in an open, democratic society that was not the economic dependence of another state. (counterpunch.org)
  • Dear International Board of the United World Colleges, As students, faculty, and alumni of the United World Colleges, we are writing to express our deep concern regarding the Eastern Mediterranean school planned in Israel. (ipetitions.com)
  • Israel is a developed country and an OECD member, with a population of over 9 million people as of 2021[update]. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the 1990s, the Oslo peace process offered Israel a break from that defiant posture, engendering goodwill for the country and its leaders. (csmonitor.com)
  • The government feels as if the world is against Israel and the only country that matters is the United States. (csmonitor.com)
  • RJC president Matt Brooks predicted that there would be a "significant erosion of Jewish support for the president," based both on "Israel and foreign policy but also significant dissatisfaction with the economic condition of the country. (politico.com)
  • Israel Keyes is believed to have committed multiple kidnappings and murders across the country between 2001 and March 2012. (fbi.gov)
  • after the 2009 war, he called Israel 'a crazy country' that had 'adopted the ethical scale of Vladimir Putin' because of what he perceived as the needless prolongation of the campaign. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Beleaguered and hated by the people surrounding it (and many in it) and armed with illegal nuclear weapons, Israel threatens the world with massive destruction. (counterpunch.org)
  • A combination of obstacles that will eventually run 210 miles, the barrier is meant to prevent West Bank suicide bombers from entering Israel. (csmonitor.com)
  • West Bank: A territory that divides part of modern-day Israel and Jordan. (history.com)
  • In Israel, there are two different Councils of Higher Education, one for Israel proper and one for the West Bank. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Abraham's descendants were thought to be enslaved by the Egyptians for hundreds of years before settling in Canaan, which is approximately the region of modern-day Israel. (history.com)
  • Perhaps only several thousand people in all Britain and Israel are aware that British Freemasonry and Royalty are totally convinced that Jesus was King Of Britain and was stoned to death in London, at Ludgate, the location of St. Paul's Cathedral. (rense.com)
  • It is a shame that Israel is shooting itself in the foot, once again. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Rocket fire into Israel has continued, and now Israel is further tightening the screws. (npr.org)
  • September 1, 2012: Islamic terrorists in Gaza fired a rocket into southern Israel. (strategypage.com)
  • Iran is an established state with an expanding near-term potential to inflict nuclear harms upon Israel. (frontpagemag.com)
  • According to its critics, the current episode is just the latest example of anti-Israel prejudice that the Lancet's editors have encouraged. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Early the next year, the 1949 Armistice Agreements left Israel in control of over one-third more territory than the partition plan had called for, with no independent Arab state created. (wikipedia.org)
  • Israel isn't just a state, it is a Jewish State. (counterpunch.org)
  • Conservative pro- Israel groups that have spent millions of dollars targeting President Barack Obama 's policies toward the Jewish state are facing a daunting reality: If the president wins anyway, their political influence may never be the same. (politico.com)
  • Weather station: Ben Gurion International Airport, Israel). (timeanddate.com)
  • Amnesty International criticized the report for ignoring what it called "grave violations of international law" by Israel. (latimes.com)
  • Arabic: دَوْلَة إِسْرَائِيل, Dawlat Isrāʼīl, [dawlat ʔisraːˈʔiːl]) after other proposed historical and religious names including 'Land of Israel' (Eretz Israel), Ever (from ancestor Eber), Zion, and Judea, were considered but rejected, while the name 'Israel' was suggested by Ben-Gurion and passed by a vote of (wikipedia.org)
  • During and immediately after the war, around 260,000 Jews emigrated or fled from the Arab world to Israel. (wikipedia.org)
  • I do not know why the entire world is watching what is happening and letting Israel get away with it? (amnesty.org)
  • Indeed, Israel is a uniquely racist state, in that all states, democratic and dictatorial, are taken to be the states of their inhabitants - but not Israel: it is by law the state of one group defined by descent, the "Jewish people world-wide. (counterpunch.org)
  • Yet, governments with the responsibility and power to do something have refused to take any meaningful action to hold Israel accountable. (amnesty.org)
  • Former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, a prominent Jewish leader in the GOP, argued that Obama is all but certain to fall short of his 2008 vote total with Jews - and that in any case, conservative pro-Israel groups have made a meaningful difference in the 2012 race regardless of the outcome. (politico.com)
  • People have the tendency to link opposition to the fence to a growing delegitimization of Israel or a legitimization of terrorism," says Shmuel Bar, a senior fellow at the Institute for Policy and Strategy in Herzilya. (csmonitor.com)
  • In about 92 years, Israel will become a predominantly Christian and Muslim nation, unless Israel is planning something like expelling non-Jews. (counterpunch.org)
  • 24 percent said it's "not supportive enough" and a 39 percent plurality said the current level of U.S. support for Israel is "about right. (politico.com)
  • Nonetheless, it is vital to understand the thinking that has led to the 20th century slaughter of the Jews and the current attempt to annihilate Israel. (rense.com)
  • The vaccine scheduler table summarizes the current vaccination schedule for young children, adolescents, and adults in Israel. (who.int)