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	Land of Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The land of the Kenites, Kenizites, Kadmonites; the Chitties, Perizites, Refaim; the Emorites, Canaanites, Gigashites and Yevusites." - Genesis 15:18-21
		And this shall be the border of the land: on the north side, from the Great Sea, by the way of Hethlon, unto the entrance of Zedad; Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.
		And the east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, by the Jordan, from the border unto the east sea shall ye measure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Land_of_Israel (1837 words)

	Judaism 101: The Land of Israel
		The land is often referred to as the Promised Land because of G-d's repeated promise (Gen. 12:7, 13:15, 15:18, 17:8) to give the land to the descendants of Abraham.
		The land is described repeatedly in the Torah as a good land and "a land flowing with milk and honey" (e.g., Ex.
		The land of Israel is central to Judaism.
	www.jewfaq.org /israel.htm (1862 words)

	Palestine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Palestine Arabic: فلسطين‎ Filastīn or Falastīn), (Hebrew: ארץ ישראל Eretz Israel, is one of many historical names for the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the banks of the Jordan River, plus various adjoining lands to the east and south.
		The portion of the land situated west of the Jordan River was also called "land of Canaan" during the period in which it fell under the control of Egyptian vassals traditionally descended from Canaan the son of Ham.
		Nevertheless, the claim that "Palestine" was once considered to include lands on the east side of the Jordan River continues even today to have significance in political discourse (see History of Palestine, History of Jordan).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palestine (3577 words)

	The Land of Israel
		And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
		However, Israel in her adulterous attempt to get along with the nations of this world is constantly negotiable-ready to the idea of dividing the land that God gave to her in return for peace.
		Israel today does not realize that the Palestinian acceptance of the Quartet-peace-sponsoring nation’s plan of “Dividing the Land” is just another scheme instigated by Satan to steal the land of Israel, and to deny Israel its birthright, and its blessing.
	focusonjerusalem.com /thelandofisrael.html (2851 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Ideas & Belief: The Land of Israel in Rabbinical Literature
		In rabbinic literature, the Land was of primary importance--even as the Diaspora grew.
		The Tannaim, like the majority of Jews at the time, lived in the Land of Israel; this was their home, and they fought to maintain its Jewish character and population. The Sanhedrin (high court) still functioned, but Jewish society was in turmoil because of the ongoing conflict with the Romans.
		The Amoraim of the Land of Israel continue on the road of the Tannaim, struggling to maintain their community in the face of great difficulties.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /ideas_belief/LandIsrael/early_landisrael/Rabbinic_LandIsrael.htm (1478 words)

	Israel's Land Ownership Policies
		Before the State of Israel was established in 1948, land purchased by the JNF was not resold but was instead leased out on a long-term basis to create kibbutzim and other forms of Jewish settlement.
		Of the total land in Israel in 1997, the Israel Government Press Office statistics say 79.5% is owned by the government, 14% is privately owned by the JNF, and the rest, around 6.5%, is evenly divided between private Arab and Jewish owners.
		Thus, the ILA administers 93.5% of the land in Israel.
	www.palestinefacts.org /pf_1991to_now_israel_land.php (811 words)

	The Name Rome Gave the Land of Israel
		Judea (Iudaea) was the Roman name for the Land of Israel during the heyday of the Roman Empire.
		The rough Jewish equivalent for the latter broad usage is the Land of Israel.
		Holy Land was still the usual Western name for the country in the nineteenth century, although it alternated with Palestine, Judea, Zion, the Land of Israel, Land of the Bible, etc., and the Land was sometimes seen as part of Syria, the Levant, or other geographic notions.
	focusonjerusalem.com /whatromecalledthepromisedland.html (2868 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Ideas & Belief: Land of Israel: Early Thought
		In the Torah, the idea for a Land of Israel is born in tandem with the idea for a People of Israel.
		The Mishnah (Kelim 1:6) reflects this latter position, stating that the Land of Israel is holier than all other lands because certain sacrificial produce--the omer, the first fruits, and the two Loaves--are brought from it and not from other lands.
		Living in the Land is said to atone for all sins (Sifrei Deuteronomy 333), and the importance of being buried in the Land is emphasized.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /ideas_belief/LandIsrael/early_landisrael.htm (685 words)

	Save the Land of Israel
		Millions of Jewish lives in Israel are under threat by the policy of the Government of Israel to negotiate with terrorists and accommodate their demands.
		The choice is not ‘peace or giving away land’, but ‘getting a bit of paper or giving away land!’ No investigations or discoveries what is going on behind closed doors are necessary to realize that this last year since their signing [which they call the ‘Peace Agreement’], there were many attacks [with Jewish people killed].
		Many anti-religious people amongst the group of leaders whose responsibility is to help the orphans, children of survivors of the holocaust, in the Land of Israel, have put together a corner of destruction for those children who were put into their hands.
	savethelandofisrael.blogspot.com (15170 words)

	The Israel Museum, Jerusalem \| Archaeology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The archaeology of the Land of Israel has its own peculiar array of motifs, ideas and practitioners.
		The first concerns Israel's position as a bridge between the great civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia while the second, is the fragmentary, segmented character of society in a landscape that encouraged regionality and discouraged large-scale organization.
		The history and the archaeology of the Land of Israel are wonderfully enhanced, and at times, complicated, by the fact that three of the world's great religions -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam -- regard it as holy.
	www.imj.org.il /eng/archaeology (167 words)

	Antiquity of Israel
		The Merneptah Stela implies Israel was well established by the end of the 13th century BC and could not have come into being later as some scholars have asserted.
		In the stela, Israel is identified by as a socioethnic unity powerful enough to be mentioned along with other major city-states that were also neutralized by Merneptah.
		The land was then called by the name Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel), first stated in I Samuel 13:19.
	www.palestinefacts.org /pf_early_palestine_israel_antiquity.php (407 words)

	THE LAND OF ISRAEL
		Please Note: When we get a fixed land price, then we will post the dates for signing up and putting down a small deposit, and tell you where to send the deposit to get your name on the last.
		Our afternoon will be free, because in the evening we will go to the Israel Museum to see some of what has been found in all the places we have visited.
		Those wanting to see Jordan for a few days in addition to the trip to Israel will come a few days early, tour Jordan, and be back at the hotel to welcome the rest of the arriving group.
	www.christianleadershipcenter.org /israel05a.htm (2414 words)

	Israel, Gaza, Land and the "Rapture"
		The return of the Jews to the land of Israel is a major pillar in dispensational theology.
		This can’t be since Israel has to regain all the land of Israel for the land promises to count.
		There is a simple biblical solution to this dilemma: God gave the Israelites the land He had promised to give; they possessed and lived in the land; they had rest; their enemies did not stand before them; not one of the promises God made to the house of Israel failed.
	www.americanvision.org /articlearchive/08-19-05.asp (1293 words)

	Loving the Land of Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Throughout the Torah, Israel is referred to as an "eretz rechava," meaning a land that is spacious or expansive.
		Performing mitzvot outside the Land, he wrote, was merely for the sake of keeping in practice, so that when the Jewish people return to the Land, they will know what to do.
		Ten of the twelve spies sent to reconnoiter the Land gave a negative report, and the people refused "to make aliyah." The sages say that this sin, the rejection of the Land of Israel, was in some ways more grievous than the sin of worshipping the Golden Calf.
	www.aish.com /jewishissues/israeldiary/Loving_the_Land_of_Israel.asp (2277 words)

	CHRISTIAN ZIONISM - THE LAND OF ISRAEL -A Christian Zionist View
		From their perspective any land or any time can be the setting of mythological stories that reveal eternal truths about God and man. For them no specific particular land nor any specific time have any necessary bonds to these timeless truths.
		This identity involved a specific land as the basis of the national aspect of the identity; it is also involved being bound in a relationship to God, the Giver, as the basis of the religious aspect of the identity.
		God's choice of the People of Israel and the land of Israel was confirmed and established stronger than ever before when He sent His Son Jesus to be a Jew in the land of Israel.
	www.cdn-friends-icej.ca /ronning.html (6303 words)

	Judaism.com - Land of Israel Necklace - Silver Chain
		The Land of Israel Necklace, which is hand crafted by artisans in Jerusalem, is a unique, beautiful, and meaningful way to Keep The Land of Israel Close to Your Heart!
		By wearing the Land of Israel as a beautiful necklace, the land remains in ones consciousness and literally, close to the heart.
		We believe that proudly wearing Israel over your heart helps keep Israel in your mind, signifies your bond to the Land, creates conversation and interest, and is a unique way to demonstrate your love and support for Israel.
	www.judaism.com /display.asp?nt=Dp&etn=CBIDI (263 words)

	Promised Land, New Israel, Manifest Destiny, and Land Theft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Land rights of Native Americans were never taken seriously.
		All land was held in tribal status, and its tribal governing body, the council, or headmen would allot pieces of land for each family to use," two Native-American scholars explain.
		Israel's quick, military victory stimulated a series of highly visible and influential religious movements aimed at "redeeming the land." (32) For Israel, the question of land was a matter neither of economics nor of national security.
	gbgm-umc.org /umw/joshua/may7180.stm (3538 words)

	Zionism and the Land of Israel
		It proves that the general attachment of many of our intelligentsia to the land of Israel is very nebulous, for this yearning for the ancient homeland seems to them to be simply some kind of roseate dream which, when necessary, can also be evaded.
		The Jewish nation and the land of Israel are one.
		And here we arrive at the fact that this national distinctiveness created in the land of Israel is the perfect formulation of the primary motive throughout the exile through which we can recognize the will of the people.
	www.wzo.org.il /en/resources/view.asp?id=1237 (4084 words)

	Buying Land in Israel
		This includes both lands of the government itself and the Keren Kayemet.
		They in turn have given the land to the Israel Lands Authority to manage.
		The second through contractors who have already purchased the land and subdivide it.
	www.wzo.org.il /en/resources/view.asp?id=144 (618 words)

	The Land of Israel
		I am a Christian, and to walk the land where Jesus Christ's world-changing ministry occured, has been one of the highlights of my life.
		I hope you enjoy exploring the Land of Israel.
		Map of Israel showing major cities, neighboring countries, the occupied territories, and major bodies of water (borrowed from About.com)
	www.geocities.com /talktobosch (182 words)

	The Land of Israel - Darche Noam Institutions
		Their absorption into the Land of Israel was by no means easy.
		Nevertheless, they persevered and today the descendants of that original group are founders of prominent families in Jerusalem and other cities in Israel.
		In the introduction to his classic work, Pa'as HaShulchan, on the laws pertaining to the Land of Israel, R' Yisroel of Shklov presents a heart-rending account of his struggle to establish a Torah community in Tsfas some 180 years ago.
	www.darchenoam.org /articles/web/holidays/ar_israel_rba.htm (815 words)

	Temple Mount & Land of Israel Faithful Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement again renewed one of the most important commandments of the G-d of Israel to His people Israel and made the Pesach festival pilgrimage to the Temple Mount and carried with them the "Omer" offering to the G-d of Israel.
		An Exciting Hanukkah Event of the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement in Modi'in, the Ancient City of the Maccabees, the Old City of Jerusalem and a March to the Temple Mount on the 8th Day of Hanukkah.
		The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement performed an exciting event on the eighth day of Hanukkah, Monday the 2nd of Tevet 5766 (2nd January 2006).
	www.templemountfaithful.org (914 words)

	The Qur'an and the Land of Israel
		The Qur'an recognizes the Land of Israel as the heritage of the Jews and it explains that, before the Last Judgment, Jews will return to dwell there.
		Both the Bible and the Qur'an state quite clearly that the right of the Israelites to the Land of Israel does not depend on conquest and colonization.
		Whoever claims that Jewish sovereignty over the Land of Israel is something new and rooted in human politics denies divine revelation and divine prophecy as explicitly expressed in our Holy Books (the Bible and Koran).
	www.templemount.org /quranland.html (2914 words)

	The Land of Israel: Jewish Education to the Nations from the Holy Land-Radio Gifts & Tours
		ADMIL is an acronym in Hebrew for The Land of Israel - Admat Yisrael.
		Our mission is to strengthen the emotional and spiritual connection of Jews and other lovers of Israel around the world to The Land of Israel.
		Our Ma'aser k'safim (tithes) from your purchase of The Land of Israel Necklace will go to help fund various organizations in Israel such as The Koby Mandell Foundation which helps friends and family of terror victims.
	www.thelandofisrael.com (553 words)

	Settling the Land of Israel
		he commandment to settle the Land of Israel is one of the general commandments of the Torah.
		The complete Torah was given so that the entire nation of Israel could enter the Land of Israel, inherit it from the non-Jewish nations living there and settle the entire Land.
		he Torah warns and promises that the Land will be settled by the nation of Israel specifically when the nation walks in the path of the Torah.
	www.inner.org /politics/settle.htm (379 words)

	What is the Jewish understanding of the Land of Israel? \| AskMoses.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Land of Israel was promised to our father Abraham and to his son, Isaac, who was born from his first wife Sarah.
		The Land of Israel is mentioned many hundreds of times in the Torah by its names “Canaan” and/or “Israel”; other names such as Zion are many many times more.
		The land of Israel and the city of Jerusalem are NEVER mentioned in the Quran, the book held holiest by Ishmael's descendants—not as “Palestine,” not as “Israel” and not by ANY other name!
	www.askmoses.com /qa_detail.html?h=410&o=406 (1206 words)

	Land of Israel from WUJS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When they left Israel and arrived at Paltum and remembered the land of Israel, their eyes were raised and were brimmed with tears, they tore their clothes and recited the verse "occupy it and settle it and take care to observe all the laws and the rules...
		They declared: "settling the land of Israel is equivalent to all of the commandments of the Torah."
		The grains of thy dust, and honey from the comb thy rivers.
	www.wujs.org.il /activist/programmes/sources/theology/the_land_of_israel.shtml (693 words)

	The Land of Israel
		Leviticus 14:34 tells us the difference: "The plague in the house of the land of your possession..." This teaches that tzaraat on a house can occur only in the Land of Israel, whereas the other two forms can occur anywhere in the world.
		For Jews, houses outside of Israel are not true "homes." They are for us to rent, sell and occupy until we find somewhere else.
		They view their land as something more than did Polish Jews who lived in Poland for hundreds of years.
	www.aish.com /torahportion/baars/The_Land_of_Israel.asp (793 words)

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