Your Favorite Things About Israel

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Anything but an apartheid state.

 

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Israeli company that makes water out of thin air signs deal with Uzbekistan

 

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Czech carmaker Škoda to use Israeli software to optimize engine production

 

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The Restoration of the Jewish People

Unprecedented numbers of individuals with some historical connection to the Jewish people are seeking closer contact with it, and many are aspiring to join it.

Starting about two generations ago as a curiosity, and a relatively minor one at that, a scattered but global phenomenon is gradually becoming a major force that is redefining Jewish reality. Millions of individuals who in the past would have been regarded as irretrievably lost to the Jewish people are now visibly in contact with it, and some of them or their descendants are actively returning to the fold. At the same time, many more persons or groups with at best very distant Jewish connections are strengthening those connections and moving closer to the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

Even if only a small part of those with such affinities pursue some form of identification with the Jews, the demographic and cultural result will be momentous, an influx possibly on the scale of tens of millions of people wishing to forge strong ties with the Jewish people and, in a significant number of cases, to join it outright.

In both scope and intensity, this is a situation unprecedented in Jewish history, and certainly at any time since the destruction of the Temple some 2,000 years ago. Yet because it is still diffuse, and by nature disorganized, it is also largely misunderstood.

The Restoration of the Jewish People

 

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That Time Ray Charles Sang 'Hava Nagila' With David Ben-Gurion in Israel

 

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Gush Etzion Winery Plants Olive Tree in Memory of Deceased Palestinian Employee

 

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10 Beautiful Places to Visit in Israel! | Touchpoint Israel

 

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In the footsteps of fighting monks and pilgrims: Touring Israel’s Crusader ruins

 

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Tests

[G-d] said [to Abraham], “Please Take your son, your only one, the one you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah. Take him up there as an ascent-offering, on one of the mountains that I will designate to you.” Genesis 22:2
The primary aspect of this test was not the self-sacrifice it entailed but the challenge it posed to Abraham’s implicit faith in G‑d: G‑d had promised Abraham that Isaac would be the one to perpetuate his legacy; now G‑d was commanding Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, in seeming contradiction to His very own word. Yet Abraham unquestioningly carried out G‑d’s command.

G‑d tests us in order to bring our hidden soul-powers to the fore. In fact, life in general is such a test. Before it descended into this world, the soul related to G‑d within the limits of reason; the soul never experienced a love for Him that transcends reason. But once the soul is encased in a physical body, which is by nature antagonistic to spirituality, it must summon its innermost strength to remain faithful to G‑d despite life’s daily trials and tribulations. With this newfound strength, the soul comes to understand and appreciate G‑d in a much more profound and intimate way than it ever could have before descending into this world.

 

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A 3-year-old Arab boy got lost, so he approached an IDF checkpoint to ask for help from the soldiers.The soldiers took him in, fed him and gave him drink while trying to locate his parents – which they thankfully did.

I can see the haters headlines now: IDF tries to give palestinian boy diabetes

David Lange

 

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In 1918, the art of an Armenian genocide survivor changed Jerusalem forever