Ahaziah of Israel

Have you ever wondered in Israel, which religion is most dominant? With over 6.8 Million people living there and 85% of them are religious which equals to about 6.5 million people being religious. Even though Christianity is huge everywhere, including Israel, Judaism is most followed because 6.5 million Jews live in Israel and follow the religion beliefs. First, “6.8 million people live in Israel” according to ( www.pewforum.org). Out of those 6.5 are Judaism they all follow the Judaic religion…

The heart of God’s redemption for Israel lies on His promise to Abraham: “I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you” (Genesis 17:7). The climax of Exodus and God’s redemptive work occurs at Mount Sinai where God makes the covenant with Israel. The Hebrew word, Berith, is used for the word ‘covenant’ throughout…

The War That Started 40 Years of Conflict The Six Day War is what started or ignited the flame of today's conflict that has been going on for 40 years. It has caused lots of conflict between Israel and Egypt, Jordan and Syria. The fight that took place on June 5, 1967 transformed the middle east into what it is now. The Israelis were the only ones actually ready for a war. The Israelis attacked Egypt, Jordan and Syrian soldiers one morning as they were eating falafel and cucumbers. It was said…

After the first world war, the British empire began to collapse, as a result they decided to bequeath parts of their land as they could no longer afford to keep it. According to John Green’s crash course video on Palestine and Israel, in 1917 the Britishers created the Balfour Declaration, promising that they would give the Jews a homeland. They needed support from the Jews as their empire was collapsing, and the Jews needed a homeland as they had recently been persecuted from Europe subsequent…

Commandments, and led the Israelites in the desert for 40 years and eventually into the Promised Land. The Jewish view of Jesus of Nazareth is that he was an ordinary Jewish man and, most likely a preacher who lived during the Roman occupation of Israel in the first century C.E. The Romans executed him and many other nationalistic and religious Jews for speaking out against the Roman authorities and their abuses. Some beliefs of Jews are written in the Torah or their Bible. The Jewish people…

Anti-Semitism prevailed post WWI leaving the Jewish population desperate for safety in search of a Jewish state. The League of Nations entrusted Great Britain with the Mandate for Palestine after defeating the Ottoman Empire. Britain broadly carved Palestine and Jordan into separate entities and with the Balfour Declaration declared Palestine as a Jewish homeland. Even though the majority of the land was divided in sanjaks—Arab tenant farmers under Turk sultans, with the growing anti-Semitism in…

The importance of Judaism's sacred texts extends way beyond their religious connotation. These Ancient documents exemplify not only Judaism's religious precepts, but also the historical, cultural and social heritage of the Jewish people. Jewish stories and ideas of the sacred texts are evident in a lot of Israel’s modern culture today, which draws on the inheritances of the past even as it gives voice to the issues and concerns of the present. The Judaism religion started around 4000 years with…

Bricks: The Influence of Space on Identity ‘In Hebrew culture throughout the ages, the Land of Israel has been perceived and depicted as the center, the homeland of the Jewish nation, and the role of the land in the Zionist narrative has been pivotal.13’ (Weiss 2015: 61). From this description of Israel, it is clear to understand why the theme of home is important to the development of identity in both When I Lived in Modern Times and A Pigeon and A Boy. In this chapter, the title ‘Bricks’…

Bruno is the main character in ‘The Boy and The Striped Pajamas’ we first meet him on page one, chapter one, but we start to learn about Bruno's personality more on page four of the book. Bruno is also is quite naive at times in the book in general and on what is going at Out-With. This is a shock to me as his father is a powerful Commandant so I would think Bruno would have a lot of tuition on what was the Fury’s (Hitler’s) plan for the future of Germany, or at least at child friendly version.…

Jewish Holidays Jewish holidays are filled with tradition and go back hundreds of years. Some are about solemn occasions but some are more lively and festive. Jews have their own calendar, The Hebrew Calendar. Their calendar is based upon lunar orbits which one cycle is 29.5 days. A lunar year is 354 days which is 11 days less than the solar year which is 365.25 days. The Jewish society add an extra month to the Hebrew calendar seven times out of every 19 years. If they did not do this their…