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Throughout the course of human history, the Land of Israel has seen many conflicts and come under the sway or control of various polities and, as a result, it has historically hosted a wide variety of ethnic groups. In the following centuries, the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian and Macedonian empires conquered the region.
On 14 July 2011 the largest social protest in the history of Israel began in which hundreds of thousands of protesters from a variety of socio-economic and religious backgrounds in Israel protested against the continuing rise in the cost of living (particularly housing) and the deterioration of public services in the country (such as health and ...
The region today: Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition.
The modern state of Israel was founded in May 1948 in the aftermath of the Holocaust and Second World War but the conflict that has raged between Israelis and Palestinians since can be traced back ...
Israel's Chief Archivist, Yaacov Lozowick, described the motivation behind the initiative, explaining that "the mission of the archives is to transfer the documentation of the government to the possession of the governed". He further noted that "since much of the content is both fascinating and relevant to most aspects of society’s life ...
2021 Meron stampede: The deadliest civil disaster in Israel's history. May: 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis: 16 June Naftali Bennett of the Yamina party was sworn in as Prime Minister, forming a coalition government with Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid party, marking the end of Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year tenure as Prime Minister. 14 July Israel ...
Events in Jewish history in the region preceding the modern Zionist movement belong in Category:Land of Israel. The pre-1948 history of the region is found in the articles Land of Israel and History of Palestine and in the Category:History of Mandatory Palestine. Articles referring to Zionism before 1948 are in Category:Zionism
Two others, one a pregnant woman, were injured following the incident. The attacker was Gamil Tamimi (57), a Palestinian from the Ras al-Amud neighborhood of East Jerusalem, with a history of mental disorders, known to security services for having molested his daughter some years earlier. He had recently been released from a mental health ...