Hebrew Words and Phrases - Israel, Kabbalah, List of Hebrew Acronyms, Halakha, Yerida, Mossad, Aliyah, Brit Milah, Korban, Tzaraath, Amidah, Tora (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 179. Chapters: Israel, Kabbalah, List of Hebrew acronyms, Halakha, Yerida, Mossad, Aliyah, Brit milah, Korban, Tzaraath, Amidah, Torah, Siyum HaShas, Herem (war or property), Kashrut, B'Tselem, Kohen, Eruv, List of Hebrew place names, Yeshiva, Haftarah, Agunah, B'nai B'rith, Torah Umadda, Minyan, Torah im Derech Eretz, Gilgul, Tanakh, Tzniut, Niddah, Takkanah, Matzo, List of English words of Hebrew origin. Excerpt: Israel, officially the State of Israel ( or; Hebrew: , IPA: ( listen); Arabic:, IPA: ), is a parliamentary republic in the Middle East, on the south-eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and the Gaza Strip on the southwest, and the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea to the south, and it contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. In its Basic Laws Israel defines itself as a Jewish and Democratic State; it is the world's only Jewish-majority state. On 29 November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly recommended the adoption and implementation of the United Nations partition plan of Mandatory Palestine. On 14 May 1948 David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization and president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared "the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel," a state independent upon the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine, 15 May 1948. Neighboring Arab states invaded the next day in support of the Palestinian Arabs. Israel has since fought several wars with neighboring Arab states, in the course of which it has occupied the West Bank, Sinai Peninsula (between 1967 and 1982), Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. Portions of these territories, including East Jerusalem, have been annexed by...