Israel
- Acre → Ptolemais → Acre → Akko/Akka
- Yvus → Yerushalayim → Ilea Capitolina → Al-Quds → Yerushalayim/Al-Quds (Jerusalem)
- Ashkelon → Ascalon (Majdal) → Ashqelon
- Joppa → Jaffa → Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Raanania→ Ra'anana
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Famous quotes containing the word israel:
“...that he may learn that there is a prophet in Israel.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 2 Kings 5:8.
Elijah to the king of Israel who has received a letter from the king of Syria looking for someone to cure his commander of leprosy.
“The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“For in the division of the nations of the whole earth he set a ruler over every people; but Israel is the Lord’s portion: whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with discipline, and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him. Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 17:17-9.