History of Hanukkah

king of the Seleucid Empire (175–164 BC)

On 14 December 2025, an antisemitic Islamic State (IS)-inspired terrorist attack occurred at the Archer Park area of Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, during a celebration of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah attended by around 1,000 people. Beginning at 6:42 pm, two gunmen, allegedly Sajid Akram and his son Naveed Akram, killed a total of 15 people including 11 men, 3 women and a 10-year-old girl. Sajid was shot dead by police; his son Naveed was treated for wounds at a local hospital and survived. Islamic State later claimed credit for the attack.

thumb|300px|One of the mosaics of Delos, [[Greece with the symbol of the Punic-Phoenician goddess Tanit]] Hellenization or Hellenification is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language, and identity by non-Greeks. In the ancient period, colonization often led to the Hellenization of indigenous people. In the Hellenistic period, many of the territories which were conquered by Alexander the Great were Hellenized.