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Rabbi Jacob Israel Herzog (born 1976), is a rabbi and tycoon active in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia among the Jews in the kingdom, and promotes interfaith dialogue. He was trained to serve as a rabbi, shochet, a volunteer in the Chevra kadisha Eda Maraviim, and a mohel. He is involved in Jewish religious life in multiple Arab countries and self ...
The word was that the only kingdom prospering was Egypt. In the second year of this great famine, [54] when Israel (Jacob) was about 130 years old, [55] he told his 10 sons of Leah, Bilhah and Zilpah, to go to Egypt and buy grain. Israel's youngest son Benjamin, born from Rachel, stayed behind by his father's order to keep him safe. [56]
Jacob, later called Israel, was the second-born son of Isaac and Rebecca, the younger twin brother of Esau, and the grandson of Abraham and Sarah. According to biblical texts, he was chosen by God to be the patriarch of the Israelite nation.
Israel Jacob (1729–1803) was a philanthropist in the Kingdom of Prussia. Jacob was born on 14 April 1729 in Halberstadt. [1] [2] Jacob, a banker, a philanthropist to people of all backgrounds, was widely respected [3] for his philanthropy. Jacob was court agent to the Duke of Brunswick and the Margrave of Baden.
Thus Jacob says: "I, Jacob, who speak to you, I am also Israel, I am an angel of God, a ruling spirit, and Abraham and Isaac were created before every work of God; and I am Jacob, called Jacob by men, but my name is Israel, called Israel by God, a man seeing God, because I am the first-born of every creature which God caused to live.
Depiction of Jacob Wrestling with the Angel at Penuel, by Eugène Delacroix. Penuel (or Pniel, Pnuel; Hebrew: פְּנוּאֵל Pənūʾēl) is a place described in the Hebrew Bible as being not far from Succoth, on the east of the Jordan River and south of the river Jabbok in present-day Jordan.
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After the founding of the State of Israel, Herzog worked for the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1948 to 1954 he counseled on issues relating to Jerusalem. From 1954 to 1957 he was the chief of the United States division. He advised Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion on policy from 1956 to 1957. [citation needed]