Wicakepia sourced. The Six-day War. 1967, Israel conquered the West Bank, Gasa, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai Peninsula during the Six-day War. The Sinai Peninsula was traded for peace after the Yom Kippur War. In 1980–81, Israel annexed East Jerusalem and the...
Jewish ancestry is traced back to the Biblical patriarchs such as Abraham, his son Isaac, Isaac’s son Jacob, and the Biblical matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca, Leah, and Rachel, who lived in Canaan. The Twelve Tribes are described as descending from the twelve sons of...
Moses had received the ten commandments on Mt. Siani while exiting Egypt. God gave them the five books of the Torah sometime later. The Judges, etc., books followed that. The New Testament has 27 books, 21 of which are letters. Jews wrote most of the New Testament,...
Herod the Great built the second Jewish Temple. JC said soon, not one stone would be left standing. Forty years later, it was destroyed. The Temple walls were fifteen stories high with gold-trimmed marble walls. Rome enslaved many of the Jews. Fifty generations later,...
