In the criminal law, murder is the crime where one human being causes the death of another human being, without lawful excuse, and with intent to kill or with an intent to cause grievous bodily harm (traditionally termed "malice aforethought") (see attempted murder where the mens rea (the Latin for "guilty mind") requirement is limited). In some common law jurisdictions, an accused is not guilty of murder if the victim lives for longer than a year and a day after the attack. This reflects the likelihood that, if the victim has ...

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• Murder - Vikings 8th to 11th centuries
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Murder, Murder - Murder and other illegal killings, Murder - Mitigating circumstances, Murder - Country-specific murder law, Murder - United Kingdom, Murder - Canada, Murder - The United States, Murder - Germany, Murder - Switzerland, Murder - The Netherlands, Murder - Finland, Murder - Israel, Murder - Vikings 8th to 11th centuries, Murder - Other uses of the word, Murder - Murder demographics, Murder - Documentary Films

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Murder - United Kingdom. About 850 murders per year (reported in 2000) are committed in the United Kingdom. This is low compared to the United States with 12,000, however these are only raw numbers which do not take different population sizes into account: a better perspective can be gained by comparing murders per year per hundred thousand population (1 in the UK, 4 in the USA, and 63 in Colombia - source). In English law, murder is divided between several offences, including: Murder - the ki ...

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Murder, Murder - Murder and other illegal killings, Murder - Mitigating circumstances, Murder - Country-specific murder law, Murder - United Kingdom, Murder - Canada, Murder - The United States, Murder - Germany, Murder - Switzerland, Murder - The Netherlands, Murder - Finland, Murder - Israel, Murder - Vikings 8th to 11th centuries, Murder - Other uses of the word, Murder - Murder demographics, Murder - Documentary Films

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Baasha (Hebrew Basha; "Baal hears") was the third king of the northern kingdom of Israel. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 900 BC-877 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 909 BC-886 BC. Baasha came to power by murdering the previous king, Nadab, and the entire royal family of Nadab's father Jeroboam. Over the course of his twenty-three year reign, Baasha allied Israel with Syria and endeavored to strangle Judah's trade by fortifying Ramah, a city five miles north of Jerusalem. King Asa of Judah then bribed K ...

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Yom HaShoah (יום השואה yom hash-sho’āh), or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is an Israeli holiday that takes place on the 27th day of Nisan, in the Hebrew calendar. It is held every year in remembrance of the approximately six million Jews who where murdered in the Holocaust by the Nazis. It is a national holiday in Israel. It was originally proposed to be on the 15th of Nisan, the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising (April 19, 1943), but this was objected to as being the first day of Passover. Instead, the 2 ...

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• Yom HaShoah - Yom HaShoah in the Gregorian calendar

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Zimri ("praiseworthy"), was king of Israel for seven days. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 876 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the date 885 BC. His story is told in 1 Kings, Chapter 16. He was a chariot commander who murdered king Elah at Tirzah, and succeeded him as king. However, Zimri reigned only seven days, because the army elected Omri as king, and with their support laid siege to Tirzah. Finding his position untenable, Zimri set fire to the palace and perished. Omri became king only after four years of fierce war with Tibn ...

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Absalom or Avshalom (אַבְשָׁלוֹם "Father/Leader of/is peace", Standard Hebrew Avšalom, Tiberian Hebrew ʾAḇšālôm), in the Bible, is the third son of David, king of Israel. He was deemed the handsomest man in the kingdom. His sister Tamar had been raped by David's eldest son, Amnon, who was in love with her. Absalom, after waiting two years, revenged by sending his servants to murder Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons (2 Samuel 13): "18. And she had ...

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The Holocaust is the name applied to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of various ethnic, religious and political groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, progressing to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to murder every possi ...

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• The Holocaust - Slavs
• The Holocaust - Roma Sinti and Manush 'Gypsies'
• The Holocaust - Gay men
• The Holocaust - Jehovah's Witnesses
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• The Holocaust - Death toll
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• The Holocaust - Execution of the Holocaust
• The Holocaust - Concentration and Labor Camps 1933-1945
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• The Holocaust - Art and literature
• The Holocaust - Holocaust Memorial Day
• The Holocaust - Notes
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Alex Odeh was an Arab-American leader who was killed in a October 11, 1985 bombing at his office in Santa Ana, California. Born into a Palestinian Christian family in Jifna, the West Bank, Odeh immigrated to the US in 1972. His murder was never solved by the FBI, and there is still a $1 million reward for the capture of his killer. There have been many claims that the JDL was involved in his murder, and indeed Irv Rubin, who was later imprisoned for planning to bomb an American mosque, publicly stated that Odeh "got what he deserved" [1]. According to the Washington Report on Middle-Eastern Affairs, the ori ...

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In May 1990, Ami Popper, a 21-year-old former dishonorably-discharged soldier, put on his army uniform and asked men waiting at a bus stop in a southern Israeli town for their identity cards. After confirming they were Arabs he lined them up and opened fire, killing seven. Within an hour, he was arrested by Israeli police. After his crime, Arab riots led to the deaths of seven more Palestinians, and 700 injured. Israel Radio reported that Popper claimed to have been distraught because his girlfriend had decided to leave him. Later he clai ...

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Covenant , meaning a solemn contract, is the customary word used to translate the Hebrew word berith (ברית, Tiberian Hebrew bərîṯ, Standard Hebrew bərit) as it is used in the Hebrew Bible. The Biblical covenants could be subdivided into several sub-headings: The Noah Covenant, found in Genesis 8-9 completes the Noahide Laws and applies to the whole mankind. God forbids eating blood. forbids murder and adopts blood revenge. promises that he will never again destroy life on earth by flood.

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Since the failure of the Camp David Accords in the summer of 2000, many acts of militancy were committed by individuals, militant Palestinian groups, and members of the Palestinian Authority against Israeli civilians. This is a partial chronology of actions resulting in deaths during the al-Aqsa Intifada: 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 Prior acts of Palestinian militancy are omitted from this page. See Militancy against Israel before 2000. Terrorism against Israel - Early history. ...

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• Terrorism against Israel - The First Intifada
• Terrorism against Israel - The Palestinian Authority
• Terrorism against Israel - The al-Aqsa Intifada
• Terrorism against Israel - Discussion of terrorism against Israel during the al-Aqsa Intifada

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Athaliah (Hebrew Atalyahu (עתליה), "God is exalted") was the queen of Judah during the reign of King Jehoram, and later became sole ruler of Judah for five years. William F. Albright has dated her reign to 842 BC-837 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 841 BC-835 BC. She was the daughter of King Omri of Israel and her marriage to Jehoram sealed a treaty between Israel and Judah. Jehoram of Judah, a descendant of King David, actively promoted the worship of Yahweh in his country, but he tolerated Athaliah's worsh ...

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Land of Israel Districts · Cities · Transportation Dead Sea · Red Sea · Sea of Galilee Mediterranean · Negev · Judea · Samaria Jerusalem · Tel Aviv · Haifa Zionism · Timeline ·Aliyah · Herzl Balfour · Mandate · 1947 UN Plan Independence · Austerity · Ma'abarot Lavon Affair · Eichmann Trial 1948 War · 1949 Armistice · Suez War Six-Day War · Attrition War Yom Kippur War · Lebanon War Peace treaties with: Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan Timeline · Peace process · Peace camp 1st Intifada · Os ...

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• Yad Vashem - Activities
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The Arab-Israeli conflict is a long-running conflict in the Middle East concerning self-determination of the Jews in the Land of Israel and, after the establishment of the state of Israel, its relations with the Arab states and the Palestinian population (see Israeli-Palestinian conflict.) Some uses of the term Middle East conflict refer to this matter, but the region has been host to other disputes and wars not directly ...

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• Arab-Israeli conflict - History
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• Arab-Israeli conflict - Mutual claims
• Arab-Israeli conflict - Peace and reconciliation
• Arab-Israeli conflict - Quotations
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A chronology of the Bible's major events and figures based largely on the Old Testament, New Testament, and Mishna sources, and on the work of James Ussher. Dates in the Bronze Age are traditional and do not have archaeological corroborations. Dates in the Iron Age and later are placed by the Bible into the wider framework of history, and so are dated by biblical references to historically verifiable events, such as Shishak's raid in 925 BCE. For a historical look at the bible see The Bible and history See Short chronology for a more detailed history of th ...

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• Bible chronology - Bronze age
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On November 4, 1995, Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, after attending a rally promoting the Oslo process at Tel Aviv's Kings of Israel Square (which was renamed to Yitzhak Rabin Square after his death). Rabin died of massive blood loss and a punctured lung on the operating table at the nearby Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin was a shock for most of the Israeli public, which held rallies and memorials near the place of the murder, his home, the Knesset and the home of the assassin. The ...

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Yitzhak Rabin, Yitzhak Rabin - Youth and service in the Palmach, Yitzhak Rabin - IDF service, Yitzhak Rabin - Ambassador and Minister of Labor, Yitzhak Rabin - First term as prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin - Opposition member and minister of defence, Yitzhak Rabin - Second term as prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin - Murder and aftermath

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Born in Brooklyn, New York to an Orthodox Jewish family, Dr. Goldstein was a direct descendant of the Baal HaTanya, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of the Chabad Lubavitch movement. His family also had close ties to modern-day Israel, as members of his family were murdered in the Hebron riot of 1929[1]. Goldstein attended religious day school, Yeshiva University and Albert Einstein Medical School. He was also a member of the Jewish Defense League, founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane and, like many of his Zionist peers, looked forward to m ...

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Baruch Goldstein, Baruch Goldstein - Background, Baruch Goldstein - Cave of the Patriarchs Shooting, Baruch Goldstein - Supporters of Goldstein, Baruch Goldstein - Israel's Response

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While concluding a speech in Manhattan, New York, Kahane was murdered by El Sayyid Nosair, a member of an Arab terrorist cell operating in New York in 1990. According to prosecutors, a man named Wadih el Hage purchased the .38 caliber revolver used by Nosair. El-Hage was told by a man named Mahmud Abouhalima to buy the gun. Nosair was acquitted of murder because no witness had actually seen him pull the trigger, ...

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Meir Kahane, Meir Kahane - Ideology, Meir Kahane - Early life, Meir Kahane - Israel, Meir Kahane - Assassination, Meir Kahane - Political legacy continued, Meir Kahane - Son killed, Meir Kahane - Publications

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