Jehoram of Israel

Syria is a country in Western Asia, the absolute location is 33.5000oN, 36.3000oE. Syria is borders Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea on the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq on the east and Jordan to the south. The population of Syria today is 22,087,048. Syria considers their government to be a republic government. Their government consists of an executive, legislative, and judicial branch. When leaders are getting elected, the president is elected by the popular vote, then the president…

Introduction: In March of 2011, the nation of Syria plunged into a brutal, costly and deadly civil war when rebel armies formed in response to the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad. Islamic State extremists seized this opportunity to take advantage of the political mess and began to build their Islamic State nation. Since 2011 when the civil war began, the world has seen 12 million Syrians flee their homes and often nation, over half of them children. The global community is split between the…

peace between Israelis and Palestinians? The shortfalls of the United States lead peace process have numerous factors. The most blatant problem is the changing government officials, and political movements involved. Throughout the peace process Israel has seen over 10 different prime ministers with 5 different political parties elected. (http://www.stateofisrael.com) Many of these had very different social and political agendas toward the One State and Two State Peace Agreements. Throughout…

Have you ever wondered in Israel, which religion is most dominant? With over 6.8 Million people living there and 85% of them are religious which equals to about 6.5 million people being religious. Even though Christianity is huge everywhere, including Israel, Judaism is most followed because 6.5 million Jews live in Israel and follow the religion beliefs. First, “6.8 million people live in Israel” according to ( www.pewforum.org). Out of those 6.5 are Judaism they all follow the Judaic religion…

The heart of God’s redemption for Israel lies on His promise to Abraham: “I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you” (Genesis 17:7). The climax of Exodus and God’s redemptive work occurs at Mount Sinai where God makes the covenant with Israel. The Hebrew word, Berith, is used for the word ‘covenant’ throughout…

The War That Started 40 Years of Conflict The Six Day War is what started or ignited the flame of today's conflict that has been going on for 40 years. It has caused lots of conflict between Israel and Egypt, Jordan and Syria. The fight that took place on June 5, 1967 transformed the middle east into what it is now. The Israelis were the only ones actually ready for a war. The Israelis attacked Egypt, Jordan and Syrian soldiers one morning as they were eating falafel and cucumbers. It was said…

After the first world war, the British empire began to collapse, as a result they decided to bequeath parts of their land as they could no longer afford to keep it. According to John Green’s crash course video on Palestine and Israel, in 1917 the Britishers created the Balfour Declaration, promising that they would give the Jews a homeland. They needed support from the Jews as their empire was collapsing, and the Jews needed a homeland as they had recently been persecuted from Europe subsequent…

Commandments, and led the Israelites in the desert for 40 years and eventually into the Promised Land. The Jewish view of Jesus of Nazareth is that he was an ordinary Jewish man and, most likely a preacher who lived during the Roman occupation of Israel in the first century C.E. The Romans executed him and many other nationalistic and religious Jews for speaking out against the Roman authorities and their abuses. Some beliefs of Jews are written in the Torah or their Bible. The Jewish people…

Anti-Semitism prevailed post WWI leaving the Jewish population desperate for safety in search of a Jewish state. The League of Nations entrusted Great Britain with the Mandate for Palestine after defeating the Ottoman Empire. Britain broadly carved Palestine and Jordan into separate entities and with the Balfour Declaration declared Palestine as a Jewish homeland. Even though the majority of the land was divided in sanjaks—Arab tenant farmers under Turk sultans, with the growing anti-Semitism in…

The importance of Judaism's sacred texts extends way beyond their religious connotation. These Ancient documents exemplify not only Judaism's religious precepts, but also the historical, cultural and social heritage of the Jewish people. Jewish stories and ideas of the sacred texts are evident in a lot of Israel’s modern culture today, which draws on the inheritances of the past even as it gives voice to the issues and concerns of the present. The Judaism religion started around 4000 years with…