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Egypt and Israel signed the Egypt–Israel peace treaty under the framework of the Camp David Accords at the White House. 1980: 24 February: The old Israeli shekel replaced the Israeli pound as the currency of Israel. 30 July: The Knesset passed the Jerusalem Law, asserting that Jerusalem was and would remain the undivided capital of Israel ...
e. The history of Israel covers an area of the Southern Levant also known as Canaan, Palestine or the Holy Land, which is the geographical location of the modern states of Israel and Palestine. From a prehistory as part of the critical Levantine corridor, which witnessed waves of early humans out of Africa, to the emergence of Natufian culture ...
458 BCE: The third wave of Babylonian returnees is Ezra's Aliyah. 445 BCE: The fourth and final wave of Babylonian returnees is Nehemiah's Aliyah. Nehemiah is the appointed governor of Judah, and rebuilds the Old City walls. 410 BCE: The Great Assembly is established in Jerusalem.
The Jubilee ( Hebrew: יובל yōḇel; Yiddish: yoyvl) is the year that follows the passage of seven “weeks of years” (seven cycles of sabbatical years, or 49 total years). This fiftieth year [1] deals largely with land, property, and property rights. According to regulations found in the Book of Leviticus, certain indentured servants ...
v. t. e. In Christian eschatology, the Great Tribulation ( Ancient Greek: θλῖψις μεγάλη, romanized : thlîpsis megálē) is a period mentioned by Jesus in the Olivet Discourse as a sign that would occur in the time of the end. [1] At Revelation 7 :14, [2] "the Great Tribulation" ( Ancient Greek: τῆς θλῑ́ψεως τῆς ...
In 1952, Israel and West Germany signed an agreement and over the next 14 years, West Germany paid Israel 3 billion marks (around US$714 million according to 1953-1955 conversion rates). The reparations became a decisive part of Israel's income, comprising as high as 87.5% of Israel's income in 1956.
The siege of Jerusalem of 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), in which the Roman army led by future emperor Titus besieged Jerusalem, the center of Jewish rebel resistance in the Roman province of Judaea. Following a five-month siege, the Romans destroyed the city and the Second Jewish Temple.
The date of birth of Jesus of Nazareth is not stated in the gospels or in any secular text, but most scholars assume a date of birth between 6 BC and 4 BC. Two main methods have been used to estimate the year of the birth of Jesus: one based on the accounts of his birth in the gospels with reference to King Herod's reign, and another based on subtracting his stated age of "about 30 years" from ...