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Within three years (1948 to 1951), immigration doubled the Jewish population of Israel and left an indelible imprint on Israeli society. [289] [290] Overall, 700,000 Jews settled in Israel during this period. [291] Some 300,000 arrived from Asian and North African nations as part of the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries. [292]
The name "Israel" first appears in the Merneptah Stele c. 1208 BCE: "Israel is laid waste and his seed is no more." [25] This "Israel" was a cultural and probably political entity, well enough established for the Egyptians to perceive it as a possible challenge, but an ethnic group rather than an organized state. [26]
In the Bible, the twelve tribes of Israel are sons of a man called Jacob or Israel, as Edom or Esau is the brother of Jacob, and Ishmael and Isaac are the sons of Abraham. Elam and Ashur, names of two ancient nations, are sons of a man called Shem. Sidon, a Phoenician town, is the first-born of Canaan; the lands of Egypt and Abyssinia are the ...
From 1948 to 1951 immigration doubled the Jewish population of Israel and left an indelible imprint on Israeli society. [19] [20] Overall, 700,000 Jews settled in Israel during this period. [21] Some 300,000 arrived from Asian and North African nations as part of the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries. [22]
These define Israel as a Jewish and democratic state and the nation-state of exclusively the Jewish people. [321] In 2003, the Knesset began to draft an official constitution based on these laws. [288] [322] Israel has no official religion, [323] [324] [325] but the definition of the state as "Jewish and democratic" creates a strong connection ...
The modern state of Israel was founded in May 1948 in the ... Switzerland, in 1897 to discuss their dream of an independent Jewish nation and plans to lobby European powers for its realisation ...
Jewish people in Jerusalem, Israel. Israel, the Jewish nation-state, is the only country in which Jews make up a majority of the citizens. [261] Israel was established as an independent democratic and Jewish state on 14 May 1948. [262]
But efforts in this direction ended, with the doctors' plot, the establishment of Israel as a Jewish state, and Stalin's second wave of purges shortly before his death. Again the Jewish leadership was arrested and efforts were made to stamp out Yiddish culture—even the Judaica collection in the local library was burned. In the ensuing years ...