Israel

of my life, but was I mistaken. During the summer of 2015, I traveled to Israel for the first time with the Diller Teen Fellows. The DTF is a fifteen-month leadership program for a select group of Jewish teens from around the world who have high potential to become leaders in their communities and to ‘repair the world.’ In Israel I connected with my identity, core values, and found my Jewish womanhood. On the trip to Israel, I was introduced to Orthodox Judaism. In the Jewish Orthodox community…

2,100 Palestinians were murdered in the Gaza Strip, along with 66 Israeli soldiers and seven civilians in Israel (Gaza Crisis). In October of this year, two Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip were shot and killed by Israeli soldiers this month, preceded by six Palestinians who were slain while protesting along the border of Israel. It is not uncommon to find events concerning the Israel-Palestine controversy quickly circulate around the globe. The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians…

For much of history, Israel and Judah have been thought of as a single cultural entity with occasional political differences. That is, they both stemmed from one kingdom, called Israel, and remained culturally connected after the united Kingdom divided into the northern and southern kingdoms. However, historians are now beginning to study Israel and Judah as both separate kingdoms and separate cultures. Although they do share many traditions, it has become clear that studying these two kingdoms…

is the purpose of Egypt to attacking Israel is because Anwar Saddat want to taking back their National Pride and Sinai Territory after defeated by Israel in Six Days War 1967. Egypt economic was not stable after Six Days War 1967 also Egypt lost almost half their military power and Anwar Saddat Wants to taking back Sinai region because is very important for Egypt. During the period there is a small conflict with Egypt and Israel on Sinai territory after Israel controling Sinai and they call…

Neither do, Israel women contest it because if they did they could be looked on as a betraying their modesty. Why is it such a sensitive issue? Most Israeli women prefer to be considered modest than a careerist. Rather than promoting equality in the Israeli society…

Background to the Palestinian Nationalism Introduction One very widely recognized conflict of our time is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This bloody struggle has endured for over a century and involves a complex web of players, alliances, and grudges that have brought about the death of many and disrupted the lives of countless others. According to one source, at least 1,104 Israelis and 6,836 Palestinians have been killed since 2000 alone, and many more have been injured. The same source…

Military Innovation Response Draft Israel and the United States have common (word) regarding how some of the country’s greatest innovation has started from the military. The tour through the US Army Heritage and Education Center relayed the ideas and concepts about how the innovation in private sectors was originally derived from military or government funded projects such as the M4 Sherman Tank and the minicomputer. However, they are not identical in the aspect that when a war arises and the…

The debate surrounding Israel has been ongoing since its creation following World War II. The Holocaust killed millions of Jews and it focused Europe to do something and make a place for the Jews to go. Arabs want to destroy Israel and Jews and because of that most Israelis believe that the conflict between them is a result in the Arabs wanting to get the Jews out of the land but most arabs believe that that regardless to the small size and vast larger land mass of the surrounding Arab lands…

In1948, a new State was born in the Middle East, the State of Israel. After two thousand years, the Jews regained their sovereignty, through a challenging process. The Jews, which had suffered more than any other population during the Holocaust, were spread all over the world, many of them striving to recover from the World War II. The active presence of a leader that could motivate people towards a common goal of unification and the creation of a new county was essential to the Jewish people.…

In the article, Does Taglit-Birthright Israel Foster Long Distance Nationalism, it discusses how participants from the program feelings were affected based on attachment to Israel and their political standpoint. The commonly known belief that attitude towards your homeland is linked to ethnonationalism, which is connected to the work done by Benedict Anderson. Anderson’s theory of long distance nationalism is that diasporans feel disconnected because of the distance between themselves and their…