Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Israel–Romania relations are foreign relations between Israel and Romania. The two nations established diplomatic relations on 11 June 1948. Israel has an embassy in Bucharest. [1] Romania has an embassy in Tel Aviv and a general consulate in Haifa, and 2 honorary consulates (in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv). [2]
Israel, [a] officially the State of Israel, [b] is a country in West Asia.It is situated in the Southern Levant of the Middle East; and shares borders with Lebanon and Syria to the north, the West Bank and Jordan to the east, the Gaza Strip and Egypt to the southwest, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. [21]
Romanian Jews in Israel have strong relations with Romanian culture.Moreover, there is an intense activity among writers of Romanian language.In Israel exist 11 associations of writers in foreign languages, including the Association of Israeli Writers of Romanian Language (Romanian: Asociația Scriitorilor Israelieni de Limbă Română).
The Sicarii [a] [1] were a group of Jewish Zealots, who, in the final decades of the Second Temple period, conducted a campaign of targeted assassinations and kidnappings of Roman officials in Judea and of Jews who collaborated with the Roman Empire. They later became known for a reported mass suicide at the Siege of Masada.
As of December 2020, 165 of the 193 total member states of the United Nations (UN) recognize Israel. 28 UN member states do not recognize Israel: 15 members of the Arab League (Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen); ten non-Arab members of the ...
The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, also paid an official visit to Romania in 2008, during his trip to Europe.During his two-day stay in Bucharest, Abbas met Traian Băsescu the then-President of Romania as well as the then-Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, Senate Chairman of Romania Ilie Sârbu, and also leaders of both chambers of the Romanian parliament.
In May 1960 Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief administrators of the Nazi Holocaust, was located in Argentina by the Mossad, later kidnapping him and bringing him to Israel. In 1961 he was put on trial, and after several months found guilty and sentenced to death. He was hanged in 1962 and is the only person ever sentenced to death by an Israeli ...
Hatikvah (Hebrew: הַתִּקְוָה, romanized: hattiqvā, ; lit. ' The Hope ') is the national anthem of the State of Israel.Part of 19th-century Jewish poetry, the theme of the Romantic composition reflects the 2,000-year-old desire of the Jewish people to return to the Land of Israel in order to reclaim it as a free and sovereign nation-state.