Your Favorite Things About Israel

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Beautiful sites in Israel. Take the tour. Enjoy!

 

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Kenyan runners win men, women’s races at record-breaking Jerusalem Marathon

 

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Israeli judoka wins Grand Slam gold medal

Two Israeli judokas win gold medals at Grand Slam in Russia

 

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Israeli TV show to open Canneseries festival

 

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Stormy Weekend Pushing Kinneret Up 3 Inches

 

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Because it really pisses off muslims and these scumbags!!!

 

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Because it really pisses off muslims and these scumbags!!!

Please, no political issues on this thread. Thank you.

 

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Because it really pisses off muslims and these scumbags!!!

Please, no political issues on this thread. Thank you.

Why...the TRUTH hurts you???

 

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Because it really pisses off muslims and these scumbags!!!

Please, no political issues on this thread. Thank you.

Why...the TRUTH hurts you???

This is not a political thread. It has nothing to do with truth or democrats, Republicans, Likud, or anything else political.

The title of the thread: Your favorite things about Israel. Nothing to do with elections, war, or what you posted.

Do you have music, art, cities, etc which are your favorite things about Israel, we would love to learn about them.

Thank you.

 

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Rear view of young Israeli praying with star of david kippah (Shutterstock).
Hear, O Yisrael! You are about to cross the Yarden to go in and dispossess nations greater and more populous than you: great cities with walls sky-high;
Deuteronomy 9:1 (The Israel Bible™)

Hear the verse in Hebrew

sh’-MA yis-ra-AYL a-TAH o-VAYR ha-YOM et ha-yar-DAYN la-VO la-RE-shet go-YIM
g’-do-LEEM va-a-tzu-MEEM mi-ME-ka a-REEM g’-do-LOT uv-tzu-ROT ba-sha-MA-yim

A Linguistic and Biblical Explanation for Israel as 'Other'
The word for ‘Hebrew’, Ivrit ( ), comes from the root avar ( ), ‘to cross over,’ which appears in this verse. Moshe tells the people that they are about to cross into the land on the other side of the Jordan. Similarly, our forefather Avraham was called Ha’Ivri (Genesis 14:13) because he came from the other side of the river, and because his monotheistic views were on the “other side” compared to those of the rest of the world. Avraham’s heirs still carry the responsibility of being the world’s moral compass, reminding others not to necessarily conform to popular norms and mores, but to do only what is right. Accordingly, the State of Israel has adopted this responsibility as its mission, to do what is right among the international community of nations even when it is not popular. Indeed, Israel comes under great scrutiny by the nations of the world. It is often viewed as being on the “other side,” as a result of its historic mission to live by the principles of the Bible.

 

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Remains from Byzantine period uncovered in southern Israel

 

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Two Jewish women pray at the closest point to where the Holy of the Holies stood in the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem (Eliana Rudee).
And Chana prayed: My heart exults in Hashem; I have triumphed through Hashem. I gloat over my enemies; I rejoice in Your deliverance.
1 Samuel 2:1 (The Israel Bible™)

Hear the verse in Hebrew

va-tit-pa-LAYL kha-NAH va-to-MAR a-LATZ li-BEE ba-do-NAI RA-mah kar-NEE ba-do-NAI RA-khav pee al o-y’-VAI kee sa-MAKH-tee bee-shu-a-TE-kha

The Soulful Prayers of Biblical Chana
and Chana Senesh
Chana’s prayer of thanksgiving, recorded in this chapter, is considered a model prayer. In her time, there was still no established liturgy, and there was not yet any concept of organized prayer among the Israelites. Chana’s prayer was a spontaneous expression of her deep spirit, after finally being blessed with the child for whom she had desperately longed. Over 3,000 years later, another Jewish heroine with the same first name would be born — Chana Senesh. Born in Hungary in 1921, she fulfilled her Zionist dream and immigrated to the Land of Israel. During World War II, she daringly volunteered to parachute into Nazi-occupied Europe to assist the British army and the Hungarian Jewish community. Tragically, she was caught, tortured and executed. Throughout her life, Senesh composed beautiful poetry; the most prominent one for which she is remembered is Eli ( ) — ‘My God’, which she wrote on the shores of Caesarea. Like her biblical namesake Chana, the deepest expression of Senesh’s soul is her prayer: “My God, My God, may these things never end, the sand and the sea, the rustle of the waters, the lightning of the heavens, the prayer of Man.”

 

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Northern streams flow towards Kinneret

 

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Haim Israel - Aba Kol Yachol (Allmighty Father)

 

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Nissim Black - King of The World

 

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Excavation of the winepress at the Korazim National Park



Winepress, Mosaic Floor from Talmudic Period Discovered in Korazim National Park

 

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