Israel
Israel has such a great history behind it. There has been a great deal of events that have occurred in this one country. A lot of the history is still standing today and if not it is still being talked about. The country today has a very different culture than the one that Americas are a costume to.
The formal name of Israel is Medinat Yisrael, which means "State of Israel". They have a prime minister and a president that help rule the country. Ariel Sharon is the Prime Minister while Moshe Katsav is the president. The country has a landmass of 20,330 square km and a population of 5,842,454. Israel's normal life expectancy is 76.57 years for males and 80.67 years for females. There are many religions that make up Israel such as Jewish at 80.1%, Muslim at 14.6%, Christian at 2.1%, and the rest is only 3.2%. Israel also has foreign trade with the US. The US exports $23.5 billion worth of products. The products that are being exported are software, cut diamonds, agricultural products, machinery and equipment, chemicals, textiles and different apparel. The US imports $30.6 billion worth of products such as military equipment, rough diamonds, investment goods, fuels, consumer goods, and raw materials.
Israel is a democratic republic. The country's system of government is based on British common law. Its parliament, the Knesset, is made up of 120 members. Those members are elected for 4-year. The chief of state is the President, who is elected by the Knesset for a five-year term. The head of government is the Prime Minister, who is elected for a four-year term. On March 7, 2001, the Knesset passed an amendment that would return elections for Prime Minister to the1996 system. Under this amendment, the I...
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...k during this time. There were times of peace and there were times of war during which the people rallied behind leaders chosen for their political and military skills as well as for their leadership qualities. The weakness inherent in this tribal organization in face of a threat caused by the Philistines generated the need for a ruler, who would unite the tribes and make the position permanent, that would be carried on by inheritance.
Israel was and is truly a historical landmark. Their way of life now reflects the decisions of their leaders in past centuries. Their government has the skills and the organization to provide for its people. They know how to fight when it is needed and they know how to be still when it is demanded. Israel came from a nomadic form where the people traveled from land to land to a great civilization that still stands strong today.
Prior, Plutarch accounts for the unequal social framework within Sparta, where tribal leaders owned vast domains of land, in great contrast to the average Spartiate. Furthermore, Hodgkinson suggests the success of social reform in Sparta stems from the redistribution of Messenian land and the Agoge; reinforcing the belief that dissent from this social order would threaten the established hierarchical status of the Spartiates.
The ideas of David, Reuven and other reform Jews sparked new interest in the notion of a Hebrew state in Palestine. Zionism was an idea with a long history, but it starts to involve the characters of The Chosen and picks up intensity after the Holocaust.
Israel was created as a haven for persecuted Jew as a result of the Holocaust, however, it was soon run by the military. “The new Israel seemed to be a nation where the military ruled ignoring the will of the countr...
We have now examined Thucydides' strongest arguments for Athenian rule. It is clear that Athens had a stronger claim to rule than the Melians had to remain sovereign. We also know that Athens' claims hold up when we examine them for validity. Thucydides beliefs in Athens' claims were therefore well founded.
...one of the darkest periods of history, filled with madness and murder. Following the war many people asked why the Jews succumbed to the Nazis like “Lamb at the slaughter”. One cannot forget or ignore the many shows of resistance amongst the Jews such as the Jews who fought in the forest of Eastern Europe and also the Jews who started the uprising in ghettos and in concentration camps. One result of the Holocaust is that the state of Israel was no doubt established because of the Holocaust. As a result of the great catastrophe which occurred to the Jewish people many nations realized that establishing a state was a necessary step for the protection of Jews. With the end of the war and the unconditional surrender, international courts were set up for the quick trials and sentencing of the Nazis for their war crimes against the Jewish people and against all humanity.
Thus, the question is what makes a leader a leader. For example, back in the early days of homosapian they were so immensely surrounded by danger everywhere either the whether or carnivorous animals harming the very existence of the homosapian race. This caused the homosapian to become social with fellow homosapians which resulted in many pros and lessened the cons for example, a pro would be an increase in safety causing comfort a circle of trust. An environment in which the homosapian could prosper in a calmer as well as trustful manner due to these leaders would prosper those who would stay up in the night to spot danger to worn the rest of a tribe.
Israel was a very hard place to live when it first was established. We often found sickness, which caused many families to start over again. Because of this, there were many authors who expressed their feelings during this time. This can be seen this in the story Dr. Schmidt. In this story, it is clear that there are a lot of old and new Jews, topics relating to Zionism, and a gap between Ashkenazi Jews and Yemenite Jews. These topics have helped readers relate to these stories, and motivate them to live a better life. This is why the state of Israel has been so successful in its short life. The drive to succeed has shaped the State of Israel for the better.
...thousands of years from times of nomadic tribes to kings that ruled over millions. While the land covered has been vast and the people many, one thing has been a constant in the history of the Jewish people, conflict. The conflict the people of Israel has faced has caused much destruction and horror in the lives of many, however, Israel has turned the history of conflict into a positive light in order to create a nation unified behind it. Israel has created a fast military force that gives thousands jobs both in factories and within the military itself. They have also created an economic system that creates vast productions of quality goods in order to compete with other countries in the Middle East and around the world. Israel has turned the devastation of war and the worries of continual conflict into a constructive action that has kept Israel alive and powerful.
For decades the U.S has provided consistent and unparalleled support to Israel. Since the world war II, Israel has been receiving the largest amount of U.S. military and economic aid.
Palestine (and Israel) is a small area in the Middle East that is on the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea and borders the nations of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. On May 14, 1948, the state of Israel was declared by the Jewish Peoples council. Following this act, the Arab people of the surrounding countries attacked the new Israeli state. However Israel prevailed, and took almost all of the land previously designated to be ...
...their neighbors, the Allies create Israel in 1948. Israel was created for a homeland for the Jewish survivors.
In order for a tribe to rise up to an empire, like Persia, not only are great leaders essential but loyal followers are also needed provide a stable civilization. Great leadership for Persia started when the Median Empire, under King Astyages, had control over the Persians when Cyrus the Great; an Achaemenid ascended the Persian throne in 559 B.C.E. Cyrus led the Persians in a revolt against the Medes to be overthrown. Neighboring nations approved of the Median state being taken over, but when Persia began to expand, they soon realized that the Persians were a greater enemy. The rise of the Persians was only the beginning of the forceful changes in power in ancient times. Cyrus expanded the Empire to include Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Iranian plateau, the Middle East, even stretching to the outskirts of the Egyptian Empire. During these imperialistic expansion years, Persia went from a primitive tribe to a society with diverse culture...
Pericles ascended to power at the empire’s height and was, according to Thucydides, the city’s most capable politician, a man who understood fully the nature of his city and its political institutions and used his understanding to further its interests in tandem with his own. After Pericles, however, Thucydides notes a drastic decline in the quality of Athenian leaders, culminating in Alcibiades, the last major general to be described in The Peloponnesian War. While he is explicit in this conclusion, he is much more reticent regarding its cause. What changed in Athens to produce the decline in the quality of its leadership? The development of an empire is a change strongly emphasized in the Archeology as a radical departure from the Hellenic tradition, and consequently a major source of conflict among the Greeks.
At an undetermined point in the history of man, a people, while still in the state of nature, allowed one person to become their leader and judge over controversies. This was first the patriarch of a family, then the wisest or fittest militarily of a tribe. These leaders ruled by wisdom and discretion, though neither they nor their followers were subject to any ratified laws. These rulers represented the earliest signs of an emerging hierarchical order, yet did not constitute a government in the formal sense.
Since its inception in 1948, Israel’s position in the international system has been precarious due to its geopolitically vulnerable position. Located in the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East, Israel is surrounded by hostile Arab neighbors begrudged by the fact that Israel’s territorial boarders were carved out of their own countries. These neighboring states have actively sought the destruction and dismemberment of the new Jewish nation since it received its statehood. In the subsequent two decades, Israel was harassed by the surrounding countries; there were numerous skirmishes, terrorist attacks, and bombardments perpetrated with the goal of provoking Israel into a conflict. Israel got the message that war was inevitable. In June, 1967