Israel
ישראל (Yisrael)
- Akko (עֵכּוׂ) : Acre
- Ariha/Yeriho (יְרִיחוׂ / ٲرݐحا) : Jericho
- Ashqelon (אֵשֶׁקְלוׂן) : Ashkelon
- Beit Lahm/Bet Lehem (בֵּית לׇהׇם / بݐت لحم) : Bethlehem
- Ha-Galil (הגליל) : Galilee
- Kafar Nahum (כְּפֵר נֵהוּם) : Capernaum
- Natzrat (נֶצְרֵת) : Nazareth
- Qeisari (קֵיסֶריֶה) : Caesarea
- Tverya (טְבֶריֶה) : Tiberias
- Yafo (יֶפוׂ) : Jaffa
- Yehudah (יהודח) : Judea
- Yerushalayim (יְרוּשֶׁלֵיִם) : Jerusalem
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Famous quotes containing the word israel:
“The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)
“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.