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While the word 'Jerusalem' is not found anywhere in the Qur'an, many Muslims traditionally regard Jerusalem as having a special religious status, partly because of its link with people regarded as Prophets of Islam - particularly David, Solomon, and Jesus - and partly because it was the first qibla (direction of prayer) in Islam before the Kaaba in Mecca, but also because the "furthest Mosque" (al-masjid al-Aqsa) in verse (17:1) of the Qur'an is traditionally interpreted by Muslims as referring to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, on whi ...

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For Christians, Jerusalem's place in the life of Jesus gives it great importance, in addition to its place in the Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible, as described above. Jerusalem is the place where Jesus was brought as a child, to be 'presented' at the Temple (Luke 2:22) and to attend festivals (Luke 2:41). According to the Gospels, Jesus preached and healed in Jerusalem, especially in the Temple courts. There is also an account of Jesus' 'cleansing' of the Temple, chasing various traders out of the sacred precincts (Mark 11:15). At the ...

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Chronology of Jesus - Year of death. The understanding of the Gospels is difficult to reconcile with the tradition that holds the Last Supper took place on the first night of Passover, which is defined in the Torah as occurring on the 14th of Nisan. Furthermore, at that time, the date of Passover was set by the court in Jerusalem based upon testimony of witnesses. It was not until AD 500 that the calendar was changed to base the holiday's date on calculation. Therefore, it is not possible to state on which day of the week the 14 of Nisan occurred for any year before 500 without historical documents ...

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Jerusalem - Museums. The Israel Museum The Rockefeller Museum. The Ticho House. The Tower of David Museum Yad Vashem The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center The Bible Lands Museum ...

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Menachem Begin, the day after the UN vote on the 1947 UN Partition Plan: The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for ever. Soon after Menachem Begin and the Likud party won the Israeli election in 1977, the government's foreign policy was stated as follows: The Jewish people have unchallengeable, eternal, historic right to the Land of Israel inc ...

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c. 6 BC - Suggested birth (Earliest) : Bethlehem c. 5 BC - Visit by shepherds : Bethlehem Presentation at the Temple : Jerusalem Visit by the Magi : Bethlehem Escape to Egypt : Nile Delta Return to Nazareth : Lower Galilee c. 4 BC - Herod the Great's death John the Baptist born. c. 1 AD -See also:

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The importance of Menachem Begin in Israel's national identity cannot be contested since in 2005 a poll conducted showed him gaining the highest result as the leader that Israelis missed the most, outpolling even the first prime minister David Ben-Gurion and assassinated premier Yitzhak Rabin. However, the inheritance of his mantle became a subject of conjecture during the debate over the 2005 Gaza Withdrawal that current Prime Minister Ariel Sharon implemented. Opponents of the withdrawal in the Likud, led by Finance Minister Benjami ...

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The chronology of Jesus is heavily contested and some state that it would be impossible to ascertain, even approximately. The four canonical gospels provide no clear dates for any event — not even the year of Jesus's birth or death, or his age at death. (Dates for rulers and high priests are known from other sources). Moreover, the gospels appear to disagree with one another as to the sequence of various events which they describe (though many have attempted to harmonize them), and are considered by some commentators to be unreliable in any case (see Historicity of Jesus). Yet without them, we are lef ...

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Jerusalem - Roads. Begin Boulevard is West Jerusalem's inner city expressway. It goes North to South from Atarot to Malcha. Other major boulevards include the Talpiyot-Atarot route, which goes South to North and crosses East Jerusalem and West Jerusalem altogether. Herzl Boulevard passes west of Begin blvd, starts at the enterance of the city (North) and continues South via Mt. Herzl and Yad VaShem memorial. It then blends into additional routes that lead to the Southern quarters. The Golomb-Herzog-Ben-Zvi route ...

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Jerusalem - Mayors and government. See the List of mayors of Jerusalem The current mayor of Jerusalem is Uri Lupolianski, member of the local United Torah Judaism faction and the first Haredi Jew to attain this position in the city's history. Jerusalem - Economy. Heavy industry is discouraged in Jerusalem, while Tel Aviv remains Israel's financial capital, leaving Jerusalem's economy as mainly service-based. Almost half of Jerusalem's residents work in government, public service, or tourism, although there has been an increasing number of hi ...

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See also names of Jerusalem. The origin of the name of the city is uncertain. It is possible to understand the name (Hebrew Yerushalayim) as either "Heritage of Salem" or "Heritage of Peace" - a contraction of "heritage" (yerusha) and Salem (Shalem literally "whole" or "in harmony") or "peace" (shalom). (See the Biblical commentator the Ramban for explanation.) "Shalem" is the original name used in Genesis 14:18 for the city. Similarly the Amarna Letters call the city Uru Salim in Akkadian, a ...

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Jerusalem - Geography. Jerusalem is situated in 31°46′45″N, 35°13′25″E, upon the southern spur of a plateau the eastern side of which slopes from 2,460 ft. above sea-level north of the Temple area to 2,130 ft. at the southeastern extremity. The western hill is about 2,500 ft. high and slopes southeast from the Judean plateau. Jerusalem is surrounded upon all sides by valleys, of which those on the north are less prono ...

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Begin would rarely leave his apartment, and then usually to visit his wife's grave-site to say the traditional Kaddish prayer for the departed. His seclusion was watched over by his children and his lifetime personal secretary Yechiel Kadishai who monitored all official requests for meetings. Begin died in Tel Aviv in 1992, followed by a simple ceremony and burial at the Mount of Olives. ...

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Menachem Begin - 1977: Negotiating a majority for the Knesset. (Note: Israel has a system of proportional representation, meaning that in the national elections the voting is for a political party, and not for a candidate. Each party submits its list of candidates, and based on the number of votes it receives in each national election, a "proportional" number of seats for its candidates are alloted, and they then become members of the 120 seat Knesset -- the parliament of Israel. The candidate at the top of the l ...

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The concept of the messiah is prominent in many books in the Hebrew Bible. In the Hebrew Bible, Israelite priests, prophets, and kings were anointed with oil in consecration to their respective offices. The Hebrew Bible contains a number (the number is debated) of prophecies concerning a future descendant of King David who will be anointed as the Jewish people's new leader (moshiach). The prophecies regarding this person refer to him as a descendant of King David who will rebuild the nation of Israel and brin ...

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The place referred to by the word "Siloam" is now the Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem called Silwan, formerly Kefr Silwan, on the east of the valley of Kidron, and to the north-east of the pool. It stands on the west slope of the Mount of Olives. In 1897 it was stated, "as illustrative of the movement of small bands of Canaanites from place to place, and the intermingling of Canaanites and Israelites even in small towns in earlier times, M.C. Ganneau records the following curious fact: "Among the inhabitants of the village (of Sil ...

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Christianity emerged from Judaism in the first century of the Common Era. The first Christians were Jews. Within the Jewish tradition there was a belief that a messiah — a descendant of King David — would restore the monarchy/theocracy and Jewish independence. According to mainstream Jewish belief, the failure of Jesus to restore the Kingdom and fulfil various other messianic prophecies, and his crucifixion by Romans, negated claims that he was the messiah. Some Christians regard the prophecies as having spiritual significance, and not literal. Others see a complete fulfilment of Old Testament prophecies taking place at the Second ...

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In the Qur'an, the scripture of Islam, Isa (Jesus) is described as a Prophet of God as well as "The messiah". The belief is that he was raised to heaven and will return at the end of days to live out the rest of his natural life. Muslims claims the Messiah was prophesized in the "testimony of Levi" in Genesis as a descendent of Levi, and that the prophecy about "the shoot of Jesse" was displaced in antiquity from the Joshua section to other Prophets scrolls, and that both Joshua prophecy and the Testimony of Judah ( the star, sh ...

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Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Torah but is mentioned in later parts on the Tanakh, and Old Testament, a text sacred to both Judaism and Christianity. In Judaism it is considered the Written Law, the basis for the Oral Law (Mishnah, Talmud and Shulkhan Arukh) studied, practiced and treasured by Jews and Judaism for three millennia (list of Jewish prayers and blessings). In Christianity, it is considered as the account of God's relationship with His chosen people - the original covenant - and the essential prelude to the events narrated in the New Testament, inclu ...

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In Stregheria, Jesus Christ is believed to have been a sort of "evil messiah" or false messiah, while Aradia de Toscano is seen as the true saviour who came to free the poor and the oppressed from the bondages of Christianity. A few million people consider Rev. Moon to be the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. The Shakers believed that Jesus was the male Messiah and Mother Ann Lee, the female Messiah. For the Rastafari movement, H ...

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In 1009 the Fatamid ruler Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah demolished the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, an act that would help light the spark of the Crusades. Pope Urban II called on Christians throughout Europe to unite and drive out the Seljuk "infidels" who had been harassing and suppressing the Christians trying to live in and pass through the Holy Land. The Pope's call was taken up and the heavily armored crusaders set off across Europe, through the Balkans, past the Byzantine Empire and even wandered in sight of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia o ...

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Since the mid 1990s, there has been a steady stream of South African Jews, American Jews, and French Jews who have either made aliyah, or purchased property in Israel for potential future immigration. Specifically, many French Jews have purchased homes in Israel as insurance due to the rising rate of anti-Semitism in France in recent years. The Bnei Menashe Jews from India, which were only recently discovered and recognised by mainstream Judaism as descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes, slowly started their Aliyah in the early 1990 ...

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