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Aliyah ( US: / ˌæliˈɑː /, UK: / ˌɑː -/; Hebrew: עֲלִיָּה ʿălīyyā, lit. 'ascent') is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel or the Palestine region, which is today chiefly represented by the State of Israel.
Land of Goshen. The land of Goshen ( Hebrew: אֶרֶץ גֹּשֶׁן, ʾEreṣ Gōšen) is named in the Hebrew Bible as the place in Egypt given to the Hebrews by the pharaoh of Joseph ( Book of Genesis, Genesis 45:9–10 ), and the land from which they later left Egypt at the time of the Exodus. It is believed to have been located in the ...
Laws and customs of the Land of Israel in Judaism are those Jewish laws that apply only to the Land of Israel. These include the commandments dependent on the Land ( Hebrew: מצוות התלויות בארץ; translit.
The West Bank has a land area of about 5,640 square kilometres (2,180 square miles). It has an estimated population of 2,747,943 Palestinians, and over 670,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank, of which approximately 220,000 live in East Jerusalem.
The archaeology of Israel is the study of the archaeology of the present-day Israel, stretching from prehistory through three millennia of documented history. The ancient Land of Israel was a geographical bridge between the political and cultural centers of Mesopotamia and Egypt .
Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy) According to the Deuteronomistic history in the Hebrew Bible, a United Monarchy or United Kingdom of Israel [7] existed under the reigns of Saul, Eshbaal, David, and Solomon, encompassing the territories of both the later kingdoms of Judah and Israel. [8] [9] [10]
The Jewish diaspora ( Hebrew: תְּפוּצָה, romanized : təfūṣā) or exile (Hebrew: גָּלוּת gālūṯ; Yiddish: golus) [a] is the dispersion of Israelites or Jews out of their ancient ancestral homeland (the Land of Israel) and their subsequent settlement in other parts of the globe. [3] [4]
