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When Israel was founded in 1948, the majority Israeli Labor Party leadership, which governed for three decades after independence, accepted the partition of Mandatory Palestine into independent Jewish and Arab states as a pragmatic solution to the political and demographic issues of the territory, with the description "Land of Israel" applying ...
According to the halakhic definition, a person is Jewish if their mother is Jewish, or if they convert to Judaism. Orthodox Jews do not recognize conversions performed by Reform or Conservative Judaism. However, the Law provides that any Jew regardless of affiliation may migrate to Israel and claim citizenship.
The Bene Israel claim a lineage to the kohanim, descendants of Aaron. [13] [14] According to Bene Israel tradition, the Bene Israel arrived in India after a shipwreck stranded fourteen Jewish survivors, seven men and seven women, [15] [16] at Navagaon near Alibag, just south of Mumbai in the first century BCE.
On 3 August 2011, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Avi Dichter, together with 39 other Knesset members, filed the Basic Law proposal: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People which seeks to determine the nature of the state of Israel as the Jewish people, [22] and as such it interprets the term "Jewish and democratic state" which appears in the Israeli basic ...
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 ...
Israel regards such criticism as an attempt to de-legitimize it. [1] Israel has also been criticized for maintaining "the longest and one of the most deadly military occupations in the world." [2] On 11 May 1949, Israel was admitted to the United Nations (UN) as a full member state. [3] [4] It also has bilateral ties with each of the UNSC ...
The State of Israel was finally established on 14 May 1948 with the Israeli Declaration of Independence. [20] The concept of a national homeland for the Jewish people in the British Mandate of Palestine was enshrined in Israeli national policy and reflected in many of Israel's public and national institutions.
As expressed in the blessing at the reading of the Torah, our people have always felt it to be a privilege to be selected for such a purpose. For the modern traditional Jew, the doctrine of the election and the covenant of Israel offers a purpose for Jewish existence which transcends its own self interests.