i have questions about Israel. i tried looking for them but i cant find any of the answers.?

Question

1. what two groups have inhabited the state of Israel?
2. What are the religions of each group?
3. How and when did the State of Israel get created?
4. Who controls the Gaza Strip and the West Bank?

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Answer 1

1. dozens of groups have inhabited Israel

currently the major groups are Israelis and Palestinians

2. Israelis- Jewish Palestinians - Muslim

3. UN charter and the 48' Israel independance war.

4. The PA controlls all of Gaza and most of the West Bank but it is not independant of the state of Israel.

Answer 2

1. what two groups have inhabited the state of Israel?
Historically speaking, there were 3 groups inhabited the land : The Canaanites, the Philistines and the Hebrows. The Canaanites lived in east side of the country and Philistines lived in west side of the country While the Nomadic Hebrows lived in the south east of the country. Both Canaanites and Philistines mixed to gather by the years while Jews did not.
2. What are the religions of each group?


Today make of the people who live on land is made of Jews and Arabs who are Muslims and Christians and they are called the people of Palestine.

3. How and when did the State of Israel get created?
Israel was created by a UN resolution called the 2 state resolution 181 which created both Palestine and Israel.
4. Who controls the Gaza Strip and the West Bank?
The Palestinian Authority.

Answer 3

1. The land has been conquered and reconquered by many groups over the past 2000 years. It is always been the Jewish homeland.
2. Israel is home to around 5 million Jewish and 1 million Arab citizens. Plus people from various nations and religions.
3. Israel declared independence in 1948
4. The Gaza Strip and Judea/Samaria (the West Bank) are not controlled by any country.
Rather, Gaza is controlled by the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority (created in 1993); Judea and Samaria are under PA and Israeli control in different areas.

Answer 4

1. There have been more than two groups that inhabited the land of Israel, and more than two groups who today live in Israel, but I assume that the answer you are looking for is Jews and Arabs. Today those Arabs who live in Israel have citizenship are called Israeli Arabs, while those who after 1948 ended up on lands not a part of Israel call themselves Palestinians. They live in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, called the Occupied Territories.

2. The state of Israel is about 80% Jewish, 17% Muslim and 3% other or not affiliated. The Palestinians are overwhelmingly Muslim, but I do not know the exact statistics.

3. Israel officially declared independence and existence in 1948, thereby leading to the Independence War, which Israel obviously won. This was following a UN resolution in 1947, in which it was voted that the land of "Palestine" would be divided into two parts, with one going to the Jewish homeland, and the other for the Arabs. The Arabs never declared a country in the region, and instead Jordan annexed the West Bank (also called Judea and Shomron) and Egypt annexed the Gaza Strip. Prior to this the land of Israel had been in English hands following World War I. In 1917 Britain passed the Balfour Declaration which stated Britain's commitment to a Jewish homeland "On both sides of the Jordan river". Though they never came through on that, they did pass the torch on to the United Nations eventually. Since the end of the 19th century, Jews had been immigrating to Israel, called "Aliyah", in increasing numbers with the desire to create a Jewish homeland and escape persecution. After the British took comand of the area, they limited the number of Jews allowed to immigrate in to the area, including detaining those Jews who attempted to enter "illegally" in camps in Cyprus. This includes the period after the Nazis rose to power. Despite the obvious danger faced by European Jewry, Britain closed Israel's doors. This also includes the period after the war and before the founding of Israel when Jews who had been through the holocause had nowhere left to go.

4. Following the founding of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip were part of Jordan and Egypt respectively. In 1967 Egypt and Syria began preparing for war, including Egypt blockading the port of Eilat and claiming they had mined it (in truth they had not, but at the time it was universally believed). With war imminent Israel struck first, destroying the vast majority of the Egyptian airforce on the tarmac in a lightning airstrike. With air-superiority thus achieved, Israeli ground forces had a decisive advantage and pressed forward into the Sinai desert in Egypt and the Golan Heights in Syria. Jordan caved to pan-Arabic pressure and attacked Israel on the Eastern flank, but was repelled by Israeli forces. In the counter-attack Jordan lost the West Bank, including the Old City of Jerusalem with its holy sites. After six days of fighting (which is why the war is called the Six Day War) Israel had captured the Sinai peninsula plus Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and the West Bank. The Sinai was return to Egypt in 1982 as part of a final peace agreement between the two countries, following the Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement War of 1973. The Gaza Strip however remained under Israeli jurisdiction. That and the other territories are collectively called the "Occupied Territories" or just the "Territories". As of now, these territories are under Israeli jurisdiction, though most are not annexed. From 1967-1993, the area was under direct Israeli Military control, with actual governing being left to local Mayors, a systems adopted from the Jordanians. Following the Israel-Palestine letters of recognition in 1993, most of the region was placed under internal control of the Palestinian Authority. However, Israel has retained the right to enter the territories for military reasons, including to round up terrorists and destroy terrorist infrastructure.
After 1967, many Israelis moved to the captured areas to set up settlements (the "settlers"). In 1982 those settlements in Sinai were forcibly evacuated for the return of the area to Egypt, and recently those settlers in the Gaza Strip were forcibly evacuated in the unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the area.

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