Obesity is a major problem worldwide. In the following 10 countries, most people are overweight (the percentages indicate the percentage of the population that is overweight). Check estatelearning for list of most corrupt countries in the world. 10. England – 61% Lots of food and drink, but also one of the countries with the least amount of… Read More »
Every year, the “Economist Intelligence Unit” conducts a survey of the most expensive and cheapest cities in the world to read. According to this research, these are the most expensive cities to live in in 2018. The prices of, among other things, house prices, gas and electricity bills, transport costs, food, drinks, clothing and going out are looked… Read More »
According to wholevehicles, Israel has a good and extensive road network, which is considerably better developed than in neighboring countries. Motorways The Kessem Interchange between Route 5 and Route 6 at Petah Tikva. The highway network is relatively limited, and is mainly located around Tel Aviv and central Israel. Route 1 is the highway from… Read More »
The climate of Tiberias According to shopareview, Tiberias is located on the Sea of Galilee. Tiberias was founded by the Romans and was named after the then emperor Tiberius. The population of Tiberias is largely Jewish. This has always been the case, although other population groups also live there. Tiberias has some warm springs to… Read More »
The climate of Tel Aviv According to citypopulationreview, although Israel itself designates Jerusalem as its capital, it has not been accepted as such by the international community and the United Nations. The second city of Israel, Tel Aviv, located on the Mediterranean Sea, is used by friendly states as an unofficial capital. Most diplomats therefore… Read More »
Basic information about the territory Subchapters: System of governance and political tendencies in the country Foreign policy of the country Population The system of governance and political tendencies in the country Official State Name: State of Israel (Medinat Yisrael) President: Yitzchak Herzog (in office since July 7, 2021) Composition of the government: The government is… Read More »
Israel is located in the Middle East and borders Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. In contrast to the neighboring countries, Israel is considered a very safe travel destination. A diverse cuisine, exciting culture, varied landscapes and friendly people usually surprise first-time travelers in a very positive way. Israel is a very exciting and worthwhile travel… Read More »
According to historyaah, the State of Israel was created a little over half a century ago, but the early State of Israel was known from 2000 BC. like Judea. At different times it was under the rule of Babylon and Rome. The Romans renamed Judea to Palestine. For many centuries, this land was the scene… Read More »
The unilateral choice of A. Sharon The elections for the re-election of the prime minister in 2001 recorded the lowest percentage of voters ever in Israel. A. Sharon, the Likud leader after Netanyahu’s resignation in 1999, formed a broad government of national unity, which Labor also joined. After the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001… Read More »
The demographic factor was decisive for Israel from the very beginning. The incentives introduced at the end of the nineteenth century (and in part still maintained) to stimulate the arrival in the Palestinian territories of Jews from all over the world (especially Russia and the United States) were aimed at legitimizing the existence of a… Read More »
In recent years, in Israel as in other countries, there has been a series of critical reflections in architectural culture on the dominant concepts of the previous decades. However, many choices made in the past regarding new settlements and expansions of cities like Jerusalem and Tel Aviv continue to have a decisive influence on architecture… Read More »
The negotiations with Egypt, which began with the visit of the Egyptian president A. al-Sādāt to Jerusalem on November 20, 1977, continued with substantial success towards the achievement of a peace agreement between the two countries, also thanks to the assiduous mediation of the United States. From May 14 to June 13, 1978 the Israelis… Read More »
Despite the massive repression and vigilance put in place by the government of Israel and in particular by the Minister of Defense Israel Rabin, and the relevant costs incurred (in two years, one billion dollars), it was impossible to impose a return to order, and the Unified National Command of the intifāḍa, in agreement with… Read More »
This also contributed to the success of B. Netanyahu at the head of a far-right coalition that was clearly oriented to downsize the agreements with the PLO. Suffice it to recall, as regards the question of Jerusalem, the unilateral decisions to open an ancient tunnel under the mosques of ῾Umar and al-Aqṣā (23 September 1996),… Read More »
The status of Israel was proclaimed on May 14, 1948 at the time of the withdrawal of the English troops from Palestine. The territory of the state was provisionally defined in the armistice conventions stipulated between Israel and the countries of the Arab League: with the Egyptian govemment, in Rhodes on February 24, 1949; with… Read More »
Population. – The state of Israel today it occupies 20,255 km 2, on which 3,493,200 residents live, with an average density of 172 residents per km 2. The population, largely Jewish, is divided into two groups of almost equal numbers: Jews born in Israel and those born abroad, demonstrating the strong incidence of immigration. The… Read More »
Population. – According to the census of June 4, 1983, the population of Israel (within the armistice lines of 1949, but including East Jerusalem and the 23,789 Israelis residing in the administered territories) was 4,013,831 residents, of which 83% Jews, 13% Muslims, 2.3% Christians and 1.6% Druze. Of the population estimated at the beginning of… Read More »
Institutional organization Israel is a parliamentary republic with a single chamber (the Knesset) made up of 120 seats, elected every four years on a proportional basis. There is no preference vote in legislative elections. In Israel, the election takes place on a proportional basis of a single national block-list college – that is, the entire… Read More »
At the time of the creation of the new state (1948), Israel had two important music academies, in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, established in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as an Institute for the training of music teachers, founded in 1945 in Tel Aviv. In 1936 the Philharmonic Orchestra directed by A. Toscanini and… Read More »
In the context of Israel’s multilingual literary production, the current landscape in Hebrew presents numerous elements of continuity with the international one and with the period of revision of the Zionist narrative typical of the new Hebrew literature, showing particular attention to an identity, linguistic and space that more evidently refers to the initial phases… Read More »
Of Kianuk we should mention Ādām ben Chelev (1986, “Adam son of a dog”), the story of a Jewish actor forced to act as a personal clown for the commander of a Nazi extermination camp: in a macabre-grotesque atmosphere, through the progressive sinking of the protagonist in a resignation that soon becomes the apathetic indifference… Read More »
Although rooted in earlier Hebrew literature, Israeli literature has exquisitely contemporary features and themes. After the 1950s, the new waves of authors who have alternated on the literary scene increasingly reflect the problems of Israelis born in the country. Writers immersed in their natural environment become interpreters of the intimate problems of the individual with… Read More »
From 1948 to the 1980s The proclamation of the state (1948) conventionally marks the beginning of this literature, although its peculiar style and its imprint can be found in the writings of well-known authors, such as S. Yizhar, already in the previous decade. It is customary to divide this production into 3 cultural currents, linked… Read More »
On August 15, the evacuation from Gaza began, completed eight days later. The settlers were allowed 48 hours to leave the settlements before the intervention of the security forces. The most serious clashes took place in Neve Dekalim, the largest settlement, where many nationalist religious activists had gathered. Tensions also occurred in Kfar Darom and… Read More »
In February 2004 Sharon’s decision to withdraw Israeli troops from Gaza and dismantle the Jewish settlements came as a surprise. The initiative was somehow the result of an important debate that developed in the country on the Jewish and democratic identity of the State of Israel. Identity threatened by the strong Arab demographic pressure in… Read More »
After the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, the tension between Israelis and Palestinians seemed to degenerate into open conflict. During March 2002, as Israeli forces continued the occupation of two refugee camps in the West Bank, Balata, near Nablus, and Jenin, Ḥamās and the Al-Aqṣā Martyrs Brigade (terrorist group… Read More »
At the end of the 20th century the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, initiated by the historic Oslo accords of 1993, saw the parties bilaterally sign an agreement for the last time, before a crisis of very serious proportions hit the whole region; in the following years, in fact, the outbreak of the second intif ā ḍ… Read More »
The last decade of the 20th century made up for the State of Israel a period of profound reconsideration at the end of a dramatic and complex fifty-year period. After the tragedy of the Second World War and the confrontation with the Arabs and the Palestinians of 1947 – 49, the relationship between I and… Read More »
Population According to a 1998 estimate, the population of Israel (within the armistice lines of 1949, but including East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and Israelis residing in the administered territories) was 5. 984. 000 residents, With an increase – compared to the 1983 census – of about 44 %. As in the past, this increase… Read More »
In the first months of 2006 a very delicate phase began for Israel, symbolically marked by the disappearance of Ariel Sharon from the political scene and the victory of Ḥamās in the Palestinian elections. The new prime minister Ehud Olmert, in continuity with his predecessor’s policy, confirmed the construction of new Jewish settlements in the… Read More »