Israel, land and state, is more mountainous than not ... the Israelites were largely mountain dwellers immersed in muscular hill country, a geography engendering a lifeway combining shepherding ...

Zionist militias attacked Palestinian villages, causing thousands to flee. When the state of Israel declared independence in 1948, neighboring Arab countries attacked, sparking the first Arab ...

UN General Assembly Resolution 181 (II) which proposed a Jewish and an Arab state in Palestine with Jerusalem as an international city. Map of current area governed by Israel which stretches ...