Land of Israel

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the oldest cities in the world and is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Both Israel and Palestine claim Jerusalem as their capital city; Israel maintains its primary governmental institutions there, while Palestine ultimately foresees it as its seat of power. Neither claim is widely recognised internationally.

Zionism is an ethnocultural nationalist movement that emerged in late 19th-century Europe to establish and support a Jewish homeland through colonization in the region of Palestine, which roughly corresponds to the Land of Israel in Judaism—itself central to Jewish history. Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible.

thumb|300px|Map showing the Lower and Upper Galilee. The narrow "Galilee Panhandle" to the east may be seen geologically and geographically as a separate area (as part of the Jordan Rift Valley), or as part of historical Galilee. The same applies to the western shore of the [[Sea of Galilee and the Jordan Valley down to Beit She'an, as well as the Jezreel Valley in the south and the coastal strip bordering the Galilee to the west.]]

Canaan was an ancient Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant during the late 2nd millennium BC. Canaan had significant geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna Period (14th century BC) as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite, Mitanni, and Assyrian Empires converged or overlapped. Much of present-day knowledge about Canaan stems from 20th century archaeological excavations in this area at sites such as Tel Hazor, Tel Megiddo, En Esur, and Gezer.

Abrahamic term for Israel and Palestine

mountain in Jerusalem that is mentioned several times in the Bible

thumb|Map of the territorial allotment of the Twelve Tribes of Israel before Dan moved next to Naphtali due to conflict with the [[Philistines, based on the Book of Joshua]]

Samaria (), the Hellenized form of the Hebrew name Shomron (), is used as a historical and biblical name for the central region of the Land of Israel. It is bordered by Judea to the south, Galilee to the north, the Jordan River to the east, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. The region is known in Arabic under two names, Samirah (, as-Sāmira), and Mount Nablus (جَبَل نَابُلُس, Jabal Nābulus).

name for an area of the Southern Levant

thumb|upright=1.5|100 years of Aliyah (immigration) to Mandatory Palestine and [[Israel, between 1919 and 2020]]

land which, according to the Hebrew Bible, was promised by God to Abraham and his descendants

Archeological site in Israel

State of Israel extending beyond recognized borders

one of the twelve Tribes of Israel

Tribe of Israel

Gezer () is an archaeological site in the foothills of the Judaean Mountains at the border of the Shephelah roughly midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in central Israel. It is now an Israeli national park. In the Hebrew Bible, Gezer is associated with Joshua and Solomon. Gezer rises to an elevation of above sea-level, and affords a commanding prospect of the plains to the west, north, and east.

itinerary

Jewish rabbi author of the Zohar

broken stele (inscribed stone) discovered in 1993–94 during excavations at Tel Dan in northern Israel

ancient city in northern Israel

mountain in Israel, near Lake Galilee

valley in Israel

an Ottoman administrative district

seven agricultural products listed in the Bible as special products of the Land of Israel

political term used to describe the nation-state of Israel

fortification

idea rooted in Jewish history, religion and culture

Biblical event in which Jews returned to the Land of Israel following the conquest of the Neo-Babylonian Empire by the Achaemenid Persian Empire

Israeli national holiday

According to the Bible, David besieged and conquered the Jebusite city of Jerusalem, then known as Jebus, from the native Canaanites

archaeological site in Israel

Archaeological site

Druze religious prophet

significance of the city of Jerusalem in Judaism

British Desiderata re Ottoman Empire

Ottoman rabbi

thumb|250px|Tel Abel Beth Maacah, picture taken from the road in 1945

tell (hill city), containing one of the largest Middle Bronze (MB) Age (2,100–1,550 BC) Canaanite palaces in ancient Palestine

Jewish state governed by halakha

Arab Jews of North Africa

British diplomat (1806–1872)

Ottoman-Jewish military adviser (1760–1820)

Bibical phrase used to collectively describe the territory of the Twelve Tribes

biblical place

historical geography of ancient Israel / Holy land

Biblical area of land in the Southern Levant lying east of the Jordan River valley