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Israel (Canada)
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Israeli-occupied territories, It occupies the Palestine, Palestinian territories of the West Bank in the east and the Gaza Strip in the south-west, as well as the Syrian Golan Heights in the northeast. Israel also has a small coastline on the Red Sea at its southernmost point, and part of the Dead Sea lies along its eastern border. Status of Jerusalem, Its proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, while Tel Aviv is Gush Dan, its largest urban area and Economy of Israel, economic centre. Israel is located in a region known as the Land of Israel, synonymous with Canaan, the Holy Land, the Palestine (region), Palestine region, and Judea. In Classical antiquity, antiquity it was home to the Canaanite civilisation, followed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatikvah
Hatikvah (, ; ) is the national anthem of the Israel, State of Israel. Part of 19th-century Jewish literature, Jewish poetry, the theme of the Romantic poetry, Romantic composition reflects the 2,000-year-old desire of the Jews, Jewish people to return to the Land of Israel in order to History of the Jews and Judaism in the Land of Israel, reclaim it as a free and sovereign nation-state. The piece's lyrics are adapted from a work by Naftali Herz Imber, a Jewish poet from Zolochiv, Lviv Oblast#The Austro-Hungarian Imperial Period (1772–1918), Złoczów, Austrian Galicia. Imber wrote the first version of the poem in 1877, when he was hosted by a Jewish scholar in Iași. History Text The text of Hatikvah was written in 1878 by Naftali Herz Imber, a Jewish poet from Zolochiv, Lviv Oblast, Zolochiv (), a city nicknamed "The City of Poets", then in Austrian Poland, today in Ukraine. His words "Lashuv le'eretz avotenu" (to return to the land of our forefathers) expressed its aspi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
