Israeli Newspaper Article
Israel is a country that was created on May 14, 1948. Within less than twenty-four hours Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq attacked the new country. The war had lasted for fifteen months and with that they had lost six thousand Israeli lives. After the war the country had started to build their little country and starting to find their country leader. The Israeli had elected David Ben-Gurion as president. On May 11, 1949 Israel had became the fifty-ninth member of the United Nations.
The country is where most of the Holocaust survivors had come if they had reached the shores. By the end of 1951 Israel’s population had doubled for the Jewish population. Not every one who was Jewish went to live in Israel. Most of them stayed all over the world, especially in the US.
With all this the young country has already been in three major wars one of which only lasted six days. Israel only lost about six thousand men. As for their rivals they lost many more than the Israeli’s. Another one of the fights was because Israel is supposed to be a holy land and every one else had wanted their land to have for their own. When the other countries came to try and take their land they didn’t realized that the Israel’s had one of the best military in the world, and would be able to keep their land.
Questions:
1.Why does your country consider the land to be holy?
2. Is there a certain spot that is considered to be holy or is it all of Israel?
----written by Ashley
The country is where most of the Holocaust survivors had come if they had reached the shores. By the end of 1951 Israel’s population had doubled for the Jewish population. Not every one who was Jewish went to live in Israel. Most of them stayed all over the world, especially in the US.
With all this the young country has already been in three major wars one of which only lasted six days. Israel only lost about six thousand men. As for their rivals they lost many more than the Israeli’s. Another one of the fights was because Israel is supposed to be a holy land and every one else had wanted their land to have for their own. When the other countries came to try and take their land they didn’t realized that the Israel’s had one of the best military in the world, and would be able to keep their land.
Questions:
1.Why does your country consider the land to be holy?
2. Is there a certain spot that is considered to be holy or is it all of Israel?
----written by Ashley
posted by Dale Noll at
1:54 PM
1 Comments:
1. I'm not actually sure Israel officially considers any land to be holy. If so, it is because Judaism is the national religion.
2. I believe the 'most holy' site is the western wall. You might want to ask someone religious directly. What I can say is that all of the land of Israel was 'promised' to Abraham according to the bible.
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