1. What are the main arguments of Lissak’s article? In his article “The Demographic-Social Revolution in Israel in the 1950s: The Absorption of the Great Aliyah‚” Moshe Lissak elaborates on the struggles faced by the new Jewish immigrants who arrived to the state of Israel from Europe (such as holocaust survivors) and other Muslim countries‚ such as Yemen‚ Iraq‚ and Morocco. Lissak ensures to highlight three critical arguments‚ or reasons‚ which prove the absorption process during the 1950s
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career‚ it’s all about you‚ and you don’t care even care that I fucking hate this city. I wish we’d never come." "I’m going for a walk." The sound of his wife’s tear-filled accusations rang in Jarrod Levy’s ears as the thirty-five year old Jarrod Levy pulled on a coat‚ exited into the cold night air‚ and slammed the front door behind him. Another argument‚ one of many they’d had in the three months since they’d move across the country for his career‚ and he’d had to get out of there before his anger
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1. Religion of Ancient Israel- Monotheism‚ Myths/Stories Religion of Near Eastern- Polytheism (worship of Gods/Goddesses)‚ Corpus of literature that circulated (Epic of Gilgamesh‚ Canonical texts)‚ Myths/stories about the origin of the world (Atraphasis‚ Enuma Elish)‚ Life after death (Pyramids). 2. For Mosaic Authorship- Against Mosaic Authorship- Various repetitions and contradictions; Torah is the work of many compilations of tradition after the time of Moses; Different names for God
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Great Migrations in History The Creation of Israel 1948 The distance characteristics for this specific migration varied greatly; there was people coming from everywhere just to go to the new land of Israel. There were people that were Holocaust survivors looking for a new home‚ Jews fleeing from Arab lands‚ and more. Usually when you migrated at this time period you went on foot. You can imagine how hard it is to travel like that: scarce of food
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The Arab-Israel conflict is a story which has taken place over a century. In order to understand the conflict between these two cultures their collective histories must be taken into consideration. It was a long and hard path for the Jewish population to get a piece of land they can call their own. A land free of religious persecution. I think that history has shown that these two states can not and will not be able to sustain peace over any period of time. The story between these two countries
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While Israel is a Jewish state‚ it should not be a theocracy. Forcing private enterprises to be closed on religious holidays is not in accordance with a truly democratic state. While it is okay for religious people to not use these shops and for religious stores to be closed on Yom Tov’s‚ this should not mean secular people need to compromise their own lifestyle. Especially in a city like Tel Aviv‚ that is as secular as it gets in Israel and has a very urbanized feeling
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THOUGHTS ON ISRAEL There is perhaps no other country in the world with a history as chaotic and violent as Israel’s. After all it happens to be the only country in the world which was drawn into a full-scale war a day after it came into existence. And the fact that it was attacked not by 1 but by 4 countries‚namely Egypt‚Jordan‚Syria and Iraq makes its existence all the more impressive. This country generally elicits highly polarized opinions. People either support it wholeheartedly or they hate
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Israel is a developed country‚ an OECD member‚ and a representative democracy with a parliamentary system‚ proportional representation and universal suffrage. The Prime Minister serves as head of government and the Knesset serves as Israel’s unicameral legislative body. Israel has one of the highest life expectancies in the world. The economy‚ based on the nominal gross domestic product‚ was the 41st-largest in the world in 2010‚ with a very high standard of living‚ which is the highest in the Middle
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We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen‚ before Israel goes under."(Martin Van Creveld‚ Professor of Military History at Israel’s Hebrew University‚ September 2003) And they were quite willing: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/06/opinion/the-last-nuclear-moment.ht ml http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cpc-pubs/farr.htm Hersh‚ Seymour (1991)‚ The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy‚ Random House.
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The Creation of Israel The creation of Israel came to be‚ due to the many events in Jewish history. Events such as the Zionism movement and the Holocaust. The Jews wanted a homeland and Palestine was the place to be‚ their ‘Promised Land’ from Abraham their Holy Ancestor. During the Roman Empire times‚ the Romans had conquered and ruled over Palestine at AD70. When the Jews revolted‚ the Romans destroyed their Jewish Temple and all that was left of the Temple to this day is the Wailing Wall which
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